The Best American Short Stories 1969

The Best American Short Stories 1969

Editor	Martha Foley
Language	English
Series	The Best American Short Stories
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Media type	Print
ISBN	978-9997371584
Preceded by	The Best American Short Stories 1968
Followed by	The Best American Short Stories 1970

The Best American Short Stories 1969 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ^[1]

Background

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]

Short stories included

Author	Story	Source
Maeve Brennan	"The Eldest Child"	The New Yorker
Jack Cady	"Play Like I'm Sheriff"	Twigs
Mark Costello	"Murphy's Xmas"	The Transatlantic Review
John Bart Gerald	"Walking Wounded"	Harper's Magazine
Mary Gray Hughes	"The Foreigner in the Blood"	Esquire
Norma Klein	"The Boy in the Green Hat"	Prairie Schooner
Mary Lavin	"Happiness"	The New Yorker
Alistair MacLeod	"The Boat"	The Massachusetts Review
David Madden	"The Day the Flowers Came"	Playboy
Bernard Malamud	"Pictures of Fidelman"	The Atlantic
Matthew W. McGreggor	"Porkchops with Whiskey and Ice Cream"	The Virginia Quarterly Review
James Alan McPherson	"Gold Coast"	The Atlantic
John R. Milton	"The Inheritance of Emmy One Horse"	The South Dakota Review
Joyce Carol Oates	"By The River"	December
Nancy Pelletier Pansing	"The Visitation"	Intro #1
Sylvia Plath	"Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams"	The Atlantic
Miriam Rugel	"Paper Poppy"	Kenyon Review
Margaret Shipley	"The Tea Bowl of Ninsei Nomura "	The Denver Quarterly
Isaac Bashevis Singer	"The Colony"	Commentary
Joyce Madelon Winslow	"Benjamen Burning"	Intro #1

References

1. Foley, Martha, ed. (January 1, 1969). The Best American Short Stories 1969. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   978-9997371584.
2. "Short and Sweet" by Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 11/05/99, issue 511, page 73.
3. "The Best American Short Stories of the Century," Publishers Weekly , 3/8/1999, volume 246, issue 10, page 47.
4. Hempel, Amy (1986-02-09). "The Best American Short Stories 1985 : edited by Gail Godwin with Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95, hardcover; $8.95, paperback; 300 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
5. "Best Stories of the Century? Not Quite, but Close Enough". Observer. 1999-05-10. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
6. "'Long-Cellared Wine': 'Double Birthday,' Edward J. H. O'Brien, and the Best American Short Stories Series" by Timothy W. Bintrim and Scott Riner, Willa Cather Review, spring 2023, volume 64, issue 1, page 18.
7. "Review: '100 Years of Best American Short Stories' is vital yet flawed for loading the canon". Los Angeles Times. 2015-10-09. Retrieved 2025-04-10.