The Best American Short Stories 1948 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 SourceSidney A. Alexander"Part of the Act"StoryPaul Bowles"A Distant Episode"Partisan ReviewRay Bradbury"I See You Never"The New YorkerDorothy Canfield"The Apprentice"Ladies' Home JournalJohn Cheever"The Enormous Radio"The New YorkerGeorge R. Clay"That's My Johnny-Boy"TomorrowJohn Bell Clayton"Visitor from Philadelphia"Harper's MagazineMargaret Cousins"A Letter to Mr. Priest"Good HousekeepingM. F. K. Fisher"The Hollow Heart"'47-The Magazine of the YearPhilip Garrigan"Fly, Fly, Little Dove"Atlantic MonthlyMartha Gellhorn"Miami-New York"Atlantic MonthlyElliot Grennard"Sparrow's Last Jump"Harper's MagazineRalph Gustafon"The Human Fly"Atlantic MonthlyJohn Hersey"Why Were You Sent Out Here?"Atlantic MonthlyLance Jeffers"The Dawn Swings In"MainstreamVictoria Lincoln"Morning, a Week Before the Crime"CosmopolitanRobert Lowry"The Terror in the Streets"MademoiselleJohn A. Lynch"The Burden"Atlantic MonthlyVincent McHugh"The Search"'47-The Magazine of the YearRobert Morse"The Professor and the Puli"Good HousekeepingRuth Portugal"The Stupendous Fortune"Good HousekeepingMary Brinker Post"That's the Man!"Today's WomanWaverley Root"Carmencita"'47-The Magazine of the YearDolph Sharp"The Tragedy in Jancie Brierman's Life"StoryWallace Stegner"Beyond the Glass Mountain"Harper's MagazineSidney Sulkin"The Plan"Kenyon ReviewEudora Welty"The Whole World Knows"Harper's BazaarE. B. White"The Second Tree from the Corner"The New Yorker
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