The Best American Short Stories 1947 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 AuthorStorySourceFrancis L. Broderick"Return by Faith"Atlantic MonthlyDorothy Canfield"Sex Education"Yale ReviewTruman Capote"The Headless Hawk"Harper's BazaarRobert Fontaine"Day of Gold and Darkness"Yale ReviewAdelaide Gerstley"The Man in the Mirror"StoryJohn B. L. Goodwin"The Cocoon"StoryJohn Mayo Goss"Bird Song"Atlantic MonthlyPaul Griffith"The Horse Like September"TomorrowAlbert J. Guérard"Turista"StoryElizabeth Hardwick"The Golden Stallion"The Sewanee ReviewRuth McCoy Harris"Up the Road a Piece"The Antioch ReviewThomas Heggen"Night Watch"Atlantic MonthlyEdward Harris Heth"Under the Ginkgo Trees"Town and CountryJohn Richard Humphreys"Michael Finney and the Little Men"CosmopolitanVictoria Lincoln"Down in the Reeds by the River"The New YorkerRobert Lowry"Little Baseball World"MademoiselleMay Davies Martenet"Father Delacroix"Quarterly Review of LiteratureJane Mayhall"The Darkness"Quarterly Review of LiteratureJ. F. Powers"Prince of Darkness"AccentSamson Raphaelson"The Greatest Idea in the World"Good HousekeepingMark Schorer"What We Don't Know Hurts Us"Harper's BazaarAllan Seager"Game Chickens"ForegroundIrwin Shaw"Act of Faith"The New YorkerSylvia Shirley"The Red Dress"Harper's MagazineJean Stafford"The Interior Castle"Partisan ReviewIrwin Stark"Shock Treatment"CommentaryWallace Stegner"The Women on the Wall"Harper's MagazineNiccolò Tucci"The Siege"Harper's MagazineJohn D. Weaver"Bread and Games"Harper's MagazineLawrence Williams"The Hidden Room"Cosmopolitan
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