The Best American Short Stories 1949 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 Author Story SourceGeorge Albee"Mighty, Mighty Pretty"StoryLivingston Biddle, Jr."The Vacation"Cosmopolitan MagazineElizabeth Bishop"The Farmer's Children"Harper's BazaarPaul Bowles"Under the Sky"Partisan ReviewFrank Brookhouser"My Father and the Circus"University of Kansas City ReviewBorden Deal"Exodus"Tomorrow MagazineAdele Dolokhov"Small Miracle"Today's WomanWard Dorrance"The White Hound"The Hudson ReviewHenry Gregor Felsen"Li Chang's Million"Woman's Day MagazineRobert Gibbons"Departure of Hubbard"Tomorrow MagazineBeatrice Griffith"In the Flow of Time"Common GroundElizabeth Hardwick"Evenings at Home"Partisan ReviewJoseph Heller"Castle of Snow"The Atlantic MonthlyRuth Herschberger"A Sound in the Night"Harper's BazaarLaura Hunter"Jerry"MademoiselleJim Kjelgaard"Of the River and Uncle Pidcock"AdventureRoderick Lull"Footnote to American History"The Virginia Quarterly ReviewT. D. Mabry"The Vault"The Kenyon ReviewAgnes Macdonald"Vacia"AccentJane Mayhall"The Men"PerspectivePatrick Morgan"The Heifer"The Atlantic MonthlyIrving Pfeffer"All Prisoners Here"Harper's MagazineJohn Rogers"Episode of a House Remembered"WakeJ. D. Salinger"A Girl I Knew"Good HousekeepingAlfredo Segre"Justice Has No Number"Ellery Queen's Mystery MagazineMadelon Shapiro"An Island For My Friends"Bard ReviewJean Stafford"Children Are Bored on Sunday"The New YorkerJessamyn West"Road to the Isles"The New Yorker
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