The Best American Short Stories 1955 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 AuthorStorySourceRobert O. Bowen"A Matter of Price"Prairie SchoonerNancy Cardozo"The Excursionists"MademoiselleNancy G. Chaikin"Bachelor of Arts"The University of Kansas City ReviewJohn Cheever"The Country Husband"The New YorkerEvan S. Connell Jr."The Fisherman From Chihuahua"The Paris ReviewJoe Coogan"The Decline And Fall of Augie Sheean"The Ladies' Home JournalDaniel Curley"The Day of the Equinox"New Mexico QuarterlyWilliam Eastlake"Little Joe"AccentGeorge P. Elliot"Brother Quintillan and Dick The Chemist"Western ReviewMac Hyman"The Hundredth Centennial"The Paris ReviewOliver La Farge"The Resting Place"The New YorkerBernard Malamud"The Magic Barrel"Partisan ReviewJudith Merril"Dead Center"Fantasy & Science FictionElizabeth H. Middleton"Portrait of My Son As A Young Man"The University of Kansas City ReviewMarvin Mudrick"The Professor and the Poet"ShenandoahHoward Nemerov"Yore"The Hudson ReviewFlannery O'Connor"A Circle In The Fire"The Kenyon ReviewIrwin Shaw"Tip On A Dead Jockey"The New YorkerWallace Stegner"Maiden In A Tower"Harper's MagazineDavid Stuart"Bird Man"Botteghe OscureHarvey Swados"Herman's Day"New World WritingMark Van Doren"I Got a Friend"The University of Kansas City ReviewGeorge Vukelich"The Scale Room"The Atlantic MonthlyEudora Welty"Going To Naples"Harper's Bazaar
References