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| Editor | Martha Foley |
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| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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| ISBN | 978-9997371492 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1965 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1967 |
The Best American Short Stories 1966 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. [1]
The series is considered one of the "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction" [2] and has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature. [3] [4] [5]
In particular, the Willa Cather Review wrote that The Best American Short Stories series "became a repository of values" for creative writing programs, college libraries, and literary magazines. [6] The Los Angeles Times , reflecting on the hundred-year anniversary of the series, noted that it eventually became an "institution" itself, often being taught in classrooms. [7]
| Author | Story | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Jack Cady | "The Burning" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| 1966 | George Dickerson | "A Mussel Named Ecclesiastes" | Rogue |
| 1966 | Harris Downey | "The Vicar-General and the Wide Night" | The Southern Review |
| 1966 | David Ely | "The Academy" | Playboy |
| 1966 | William Faulkner | "Mr. Acarius " | The Saturday Evening Post |
| 1966 | Shirley Ann Grau | "The Beach Party" | Redbook |
| 1966 | Mary Hedin | "Places We Lost" | McCall’s Magazine |
| 1966 | Hugh Hood | "Getting to Williamstown" | The Tamarack Review |
| 1966 | Shirley Jackson | "The Bus" | The Saturday Evening Post |
| 1966 | Josephine Jacobsen | "On the Island" | The Kenyon Review |
| 1966 | Henry Kreisel | "The Broken Globe" | The Literary Review |
| 1966 | Mary Lavin | "One Summer" | The New Yorker |
| 1966 | Curt Leviant | "Mourning Call" | The Quarterly Review of Literature |
| 1966 | William Maxwell | "Further Tales About Men and Women" | The New Yorker |
| 1966 | Flannery O'Connor | "Parker's Back" | Esquire |
| 1966 | Walter S. Terry | "The Bottomless Well" | The Georgia Review |
| 1966 | Dan Wakefield | "Autumn Full of Apples" | Redbook |
| 1966 | Joseph Whitehill | "One Night for Several Samurai" | The Hudson Review |
| 1966 | Herbert Wilner | "Dovisch in the Wilderness" | The Saturday Evening Post |