The Best American Short Stories 1943 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 SourceVicki Baum"This Healthy Life"StoryWarren Beck"Boundary Line"Rocky Mountain ReviewKay Boyle"Frenchman's Ship"The Saturday Evening PostJohn Cheever"The Pleasures of Solitude"The New YorkerGuido D'Agostino"The Dream of Angelo Zara"StoryMurray Dyer"Samuel Blane"Harper's MagazineWilliam Faulkner"The Bear"The Saturday Evening PostRachel Field"Beginning of Wisdom"American MagazineVardis Fisher"A Partnership With Death"Rocky Mountain ReviewGrace Flandrau"What Do You See, Dear Enid?"The New YorkerRobert Gibbons "Time's End"Atlantic MonthlyPeter Gray"Threnody for Stelios"Virginia Quarterly ReviewNancy Hale"Who Lived and Died Believing"Harper's BazaarPaul Horgan"The Peach Stone"Yale ReviewLaurette MacDuffie Knight"The Enchanted"StoryClara Laidlaw"The Little Black Boys"Atlantic MonthlyMary Lavin"Love Is For Lovers"Harper's BazaarEdita Morris"Young Man in an Astrakhan Cap"Harper's BazaarWilliam Saroyan"Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing At All in the World"Harper's BazaarDelmore Schwartz"An Argument in 1934"The Kenyon ReviewIrwin Shaw"Preach on the Dusty Roads"The New YorkerMargaret Shedd"My Public"Harper's BazaarWallace Stegner"Chip Off the Old Block"Virginia Quarterly ReviewAlison Stuart"Death and My Uncle Felix"MademoiselleJesse Stuart"Dawn of Remembered Spring"Harper's BazaarRichard Sullivan"The Women"AccentJames Thurber"The Catbird Seat"The New YorkerJessie Treichler"Homecoming"The Antioch ReviewJerome Weidman"Philadelphia Express"The New YorkerEudora Welty"Asphodel"Yale Review
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