The Best American Short Stories 1946 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 AuthorStorySourceCharles Angoff"Jerry"Prairie SchoonerWarren Beck"Out of Line"Yale ReviewJohn Berryman"The Lovers"Kenyon ReviewRay Bradbury"The Big Black and White Game"American MercuryBessie Breuer"Bury Your Own Dead"Harper's BazaarT. K. Brown III"The Valley of the Shadow"EsquireW. R. Burnett"The Ivory Tower"Good HousekeepingWalter Van Tilburg Clark"The Wind and the Snow of Winter"Yale ReviewLaurence Critchell"Flesh and Blood"Atlantic MonthlyMary Deasy"A Sense of Danger"Harper's MagazineSamuel Elkin"In a Military Manner"Harper's MagazineElaine Gottlieb"The Norm"Kenyon ReviewElizabeth Hardwick"The Mysteries of Eleusis"Partisan ReviewJosephine W. Johnson"Story Without End"Virginia Quarterly ReviewBen Hur Lampman"Old Bill Bent to Drink"Atlantic MonthlyMeyer Liben"The Caller"AccentA. J. Liebling"Run, Run, Run, Run"The New YorkerW. O. Mitchell"The Owl and the Bens"Atlantic MonthlyVladimir Nabokov"Time and Ebb"Atlantic MonthlyAnn Petry"Like a Winding Sheet"The CrisisWentzle Ruml III"For a Beautiful Relationship"Kenyon ReviewGladys Schmitt"The King's Daughter"StoryIrwin Stark"The Bridge"The Antioch ReviewJames Stern"The Woman Who Was Loved"Harper's BazaarJames Still "Mrs. Razor"Atlantic MonthlyPeter Taylor"The Scout Master"Partisan ReviewLionel Trilling"The Other Margaret"Partisan ReviewHenrietta Weigel"Love Affair"Kenyon ReviewJessamyn West"The Singing Lesson"Harper's MagazineGlennyth Woods"Death in a Cathedral"Twice A Year
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