The Best American Short Stories 1963 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Background The series is considered one of the "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction""Short and Sweet" by Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 11/05/99, issue 511, page 73. and has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature."The Best American Short Stories of the Century," Publishers Weekly, 3/8/1999, volume 246, issue 10, page 47.
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."'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. 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.
Short stories included AuthorStorySourceU. S. Andersen"Turn Ever So Quickly"The Saturday Evening PostH. W. Blattner"Sound of a Drunken Drummer"The Hudson ReviewJohn Stewart Carter"The Keyhole Eye"The Kenyon ReviewJohn Cheever"A Vision of the World"The New YorkerCecil Dawkins"A Simple Case"Southwest ReviewGeorge Dickerson"Chico"PhoenixMay Dikeman"The Sound of Young Laughter"The Atlantic MonthlyStanley Elkin"I Look Out for Ed Wolfe"EsquireDave Godfrey"Newfoundland Night"Tamarack ReviewWilliam J. J. Gordon"The Pures"The Atlantic MonthlyJohn Hermann"Aunt Mary"PerspectiveKatinka Loeser"Beggarman, Rich Man, or Thief"McCall'sSt. Clair McKelway"The Fireflies"The New YorkerUrsule Molinaro"The Insufficient Rope"PrismJoyce Carol Oates"The Fine White Mist of Winter"The Literary ReviewR. C. Phelan"Birds, Clouds, Frogs"RedhookMordecai Richler"Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill"The Kenyon ReviewWilliam Saroyan"What a World, Said the Bicycle Rider"The Saturday Evening PostBabette Sassoon"The Betrayal"New World Writing (New American Library)Irwin Shaw"Noises in the City"PlayboyPeter Taylor"At the Drugstore"The Sewanee ReviewNiccolò Tucci"The Desert in the Oasis"The New YorkerJessamyn West"The Picnickers"The Kenyon Review
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