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The Best American Short Stories 1949 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1949, hc); [DKL]

1 • Mighty, Mighty Pretty • George Albee • ss Story Sum ’48
19 • The Vacation • Livingston Biddle, Jr. • ss Cosmopolitan Jun ’48
39 • The Farmer’s Children • Elizabeth Bishop • ss Harper’s Bazaar Feb ’48
48 • Under the Sky • Paul Bowles • ss The Partisan Review Mar ’48
55 • My Father and the Circus • Frank Brookhouser • ss The University of Kansas City Review Aut ’48
60 • Exodus • Borden Deal • ss Tomorrow May ’48
72 • Small Miracle • Adele Dolokhov • ss Today’s Woman Nov ’48
81 • The White Hound • Ward Dorrance • ss The Hudson Review Sum ’48
94 • Li Chang’s Million • Henry Gregor Felsen • ss Woman’s Day Nov ’48
100 • Departure of Hubbard • Robert Gibbons • ss Tomorrow May ’48
106 • In the Flow of Time • Beatrice Griffith • ss Common Ground Aut ’48
117 • Evenings at Home • Elizabeth Hardwick • ss The Partisan Review Apr ’48
127 • Castle of Snow • Joseph Heller • ss Atlantic Monthly Mar ’48
135 • A Sound in the Night • Ruth Herschberger • ss Harper’s Bazaar Apr ’48
149 • Jerry • Laura Hunter • ss Mademoiselle Aug ’48
157 • Of the River and Uncle Pidcock • Jim Kjelgaard • ss Adventure Nov ’48
166 • Footnote to American History • Roderick Lull • ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Spr ’48
179 • The Vault • T. D. Mabry • ss The Kenyon Review Win ’48
193 • Vacia • Agnes Macdonald • ss Accent Aut ’48
205 • The Men • Jane Mayhall • ss Perspective Sum ’48
212 • The Heifer • Patrick Morgan • ss Atlantic Monthly Jul ’48
219 • All Prisoners Here • Irving Pfeffer • ss Harper’s May ’48
238 • Episode of a House Remembered • John Rogers • ss Wake Spr ’48
248 • A Girl I Knew • J. D. Salinger • ss Good Housekeeping Feb ’48
261 • Justice Has No Number • Alfredo Segre • nv EQMM Apr ’48
285 • An Island for My Friends • Madelon Shapiro • ss Bard Review May ’48
295 • Children Are Bored on Sunday • Jean Stafford • ss New Yorker Feb 21 ’48
305 • Road to the Isles • Jessamyn West • ss New Yorker Feb 21 ’48
The Best American Short Stories 1950 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1950, hc); [DKL]

1 • Where Did Yesterday Go? • Charles Angoff • ss The University of Kansas City Review Sum ’49
5 • Shadow of Evil • James Aswell • nv Today’s Woman Nov ’49
33 • Wild Flower • Sanora Babb • ss The Kansas Magazine, 1949
42 • Edge of Doom • Warren Beck • ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Spr ’49
59 • A Sermon by Doctor Pep • Saul Bellow • ss The Partisan Review May ’49
67 • Death Under the Hawthornes • Peggy Bennett • ss Harper’s Bazaar Oct ’49
80 • Pastor Dowe at Tacaté • Paul Bowles • nv Mademoiselle Feb ’49
102 • Jishin • Robert Christopher • ss The Yale Review Aut ’49
109 • The NRACP • George P. Elliott • nv The Hudson Review Fll ’49
143 • The Fear of Innocence • Leslie A. Fiedler • na The Partisan Review Aug ’49
191 • The Pigeon • Ralph Gustafson • ss Northern Review Oct-Nov ’49
201 • The Mouse • Marianne Hauser • ss The Tiger’s Eye Jun 8 ’49
215 • The Author • Josephine W. Johnson • ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Sum ’49
234 • The Artist • Ralph Kaplan • ss Harper’s Mar ’49
250 • “Hail Brother and Farewell” • Sylvan Karchmer • ss Epoch Win ’49
259 • Comes a Day • Speed Lamkin • ss Mademoiselle Sep ’49
274 • The Glass Wall • Victoria Lincoln • nv Good Housekeeping Feb ’49
301 • The World Outside • Howard Maier • ss Harper’s May ’49
308 • The Cape • Esther McCoy • ss Harper’s Bazaar Oct ’49
317 • My Brother’s Second Funeral • Edward Newhouse • ss New Yorker Oct 8 ’49
328 • Take Her Up Tenderly • Hoke Norris • ss Prairie Schooner Win ’49
337 • Bright and Morning • Glidden Parker • ss The Kenyon Review Win ’49
349 • The Old Acrobat and the Ruined City • Clay Putman • ss Tomorrow Dec ’49
364 • Not with Our Fathers • Abraham Rothberg • ss The University of Kansas City Review Win ’49
378 • The Promise • Ramona Stewart • ss The American Mercury Jun ’49
390 • A Master Time • James Still • ss Atlantic Monthly Jan ’49
399 • The Hired Man • Joan Strong • ss American Letters Feb ’49
407 • A Wife of Nashville • Peter Taylor • nv New Yorker Dec 3 ’49
The Best American Short Stories 1951 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1951, hc); [DKL]

1 • Flight Through the Dark • Roger Angell • ss New Yorker Dec 9 ’50
10 • Inland, Western Sea • Nathan Asch • ss New Yorker Apr 29 ’50
24 • A Fugitive from the Mind • Peggy Bennett • ss Mademoiselle Nov ’50
37 • The End of the Depression • Mary Bolté • ss Harper’s Bazaar Sep ’50
45 • In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks • Hortense Calisher • ss New Yorker Aug 12 ’50
60 • Sense of Direction • Leonard Casper • ss The Southwest Review Sum ’50
73 • Larchmoor Is Not the World • R. V. Cassill • ss Furioso Win ’50
89 • The Season of Divorce • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Mar 4 ’50
100 • The Hunters • Harris Downey • ss Epoch Sum ’50
115 • The Temperate Zone • Elizabeth Enright • ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Aut ’50
121 • The Kingdom of Gordon • J. Carol Goodman • ss Mademoiselle Aug ’50
128 • The Value of the Dollar • Ethel Edison Gordon • ss Charm Oct ’50
139 • Her Breath Upon the Windowpane • William Goyen • ss Harper’s Jul ’50
144 • The Summer People • Shirley Jackson • ss Charm Sep ’50
157 • The Mother’s Story • Josephine W. Johnson • ss Good Housekeeping Feb ’50
168 • Fru Holm • Ilona Karmel • ss Mademoiselle Aug ’50
187 • Old Century’s River • Oliver La Farge • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’50
201 • Old Turkey Neck • George Lanning • ss Tomorrow May ’50
210 • Portrait • Ethel G. Lewis • ss Epoch Win ’50
218 • The Glass House • Dorothy Livesay • ss Northern Review Jun-Jul ’50
228 • The Wishbone • Robie Macauley • nv The Sewanee Review Sum ’50
253 • The Prison • Bernard Malamud • ss Commentary Sep ’50
259 • The Butcherbirds • Esther Patt • ss The American Mercury Nov ’50
268 • Death of a Favorite • J. F. Powers • ss New Yorker Jul 1 ’50
286 • The Tabby Cat • Paul Rader • ss The Quarto Spr ’50
295 • The Nemesis • Jean Stafford • ss New Yorker Dec 16 ’50
312 • The Last of the Grizzley Bears • Ray B. West, Jr. • nv Epoch Fll ’50
338 • The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin • Tennessee Williams • ss Flair Feb ’50
The Best American Short Stories 1952 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1952, hc); [DKL]

1 • That Lovely Green Boat • Bill Berge • ss Furioso Fll ’51
18 • The Other River • Robert O. Bowen • ss The Western Review Sum ’51
31 • The Lost • Kay Boyle • ss Tomorrow Mar ’51
49 • The Other Foot • Ray Bradbury • ss New Story Magazine Mar ’51
61 • A Wreath for Miss Totten • Hortense Calisher • ss Mademoiselle Jul ’51
71 • The Unborn Ghosts • Nancy Cardozo • ss New Yorker Jun 30 ’51
86 • The Climate of the Family • Nancy G. Chaikin • ss Mademoiselle Jan ’51
97 • Wood Smoke • Ann Chidester • ss Harper’s Bazaar Jun ’51
108 • The Motion of Forgetfulness Is Slow • Charles Edward Eaton • ss Epoch Sum ’51
118 • The Children of Ruth • George P. Elliott • nv The Hudson Review Win ’51
148 • The First Face • Elizabeth Enright • vi New Yorker Dec 15 ’51
151 • The Conversion of Willie Heaps • Hugh Garner • ss Northern Review Feb-Mar ’51
160 • Weekend at Grimsby • Martha Gellhorn • nv Atlantic Monthly May ’51
181 • Always Good for a Belly Laugh • Emilie Glen • ss Prairie Schooner Sum ’51
190 • Brahmin Beachhead • Nancy Hale • ss Town & Country Jun ’51
204 • What’s in a Corner • Philip Horton • ss New Mexico Quarterly Review Spr ’51
212 • The Searchers • Susan Kuehn • ss Harper’s Mar ’51
225 • The Call • Bethel Laurence • ss Today’s Woman Mar ’51
237 • Cyclists’ Raid • Frank Rooney • ss Harper’s Jan ’51
254 • Palo • William Saroyan • ss Tomorrow Mar ’51
264 • I’m Really Fine • Stuart Schulberg • ss New Story Magazine Oct ’51
271 • The Healthiest Girl in Town • Jean Stafford • ss New Yorker Apr 7 ’51
289 • The Traveler • Wallace Stegner • ss Harper’s Feb ’51
298 • A Ride on the Short Dog • James Still • ss Atlantic Monthly Jul ’51
305 • The Letters • Harvey Swados • nv The Hudson Review Spr ’51
331 • Nobody Say a Word • Mark Van Doren • ss Harper’s Jul ’51
336 • Evensong • Daniel Waldron • ss New Story Magazine Oct ’51
347 • Loud Sing Cuckoo • Christine Weston • ss Mademoiselle Nov ’51
361 • Yoneko’s Earthquake • Hisaye Yamamoto • ss Furioso Win ’51
The Best American Short Stories 1953 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1953, xvi + 425pp, hc); [RRH]

1 • A Mother’s Tale • James Agee • nv Harper’s Bazaar Jul ’52
19 • A Mountain Summer • James Ballard • nv The Hopkins Review Sum ’52
41 • The Town Mouse • Stephen Becker • ss Harper’s May ’52
53 • At Mrs. Farrelly’s • Joseph Carroll • ss Atlantic Monthly Mar ’52
62 • The Life of the Sleeping Beauty • R. V. Cassill • nv Accent Win ’52
81 • The Need • Robert M. Coates • ss New Yorker Aug 30 ’52
90 • Morning Sun • Mary Deasy • ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Sum ’52
101 • Crispin’s Way • Harris Downey • ss Epoch Fll ’52
112 • Struttin’ with Some Barbecue • Osborn Duke • ss New World Writing #2, 1952
127 • Faq’ • George P. Elliott • ss The Hudson Review Spr ’52
137 • A Death in the Family • Wingate Froscher • ss Epoch Sum ’52
145 • Athens, Greece, 1942 • Vahan Krikorian Gregory • ss Armenian Review Aut ’52
154 • A Spot in History • James B. Hall • ss Epoch Spr ’52
165 • The Buffalo Wallow [as by Jack Tennison] • Charles Tenney Jackson • ss Atlantic Monthly Feb ’52
176 • Fly Away Home • Roberts Jackson • ss Accent Spr ’52
189 • Dog Days • Madison P. Jones, Jr. • nv Perspective Spr ’52
207 • Beachhead in Bohemia • Willard Marsh • ss The Southwest Review Sum ’52
214 • The Hill People • Elizabeth Marshall • ss Mademoiselle Aug ’52
227 • The Whipping • Felix Noland • ss McCall’s Jan ’52
239 • The Picnic • Constance Pendergast • nv Perspective Win ’52
257 • Change of Plan • Ken Purdy • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’52
263 • Our Vegetable Love • Clay Putnam • ss Furioso Sum ’52
279 • Workout on the River • Roger Shattuck • ss Harper’s Nov ’52
294 • Oreste • Henry Shultz • nv New Mexico Quarterly Review Sum ’52
321 • The Fugue of the Fig Tree • Stanley Sultan • ss The Kenyon Review Sum ’52
332 • Still, Still So • Mark Van Doren • ss Park East Nov ’52
344 • A Week of Roses • Donald Wesely • ss The Hopkins Review Fll ’52
353 • The Forest of the Night • Christine Weston • ss New Yorker Nov 22 ’52
363 • Three Players of a Summer Game • Tennessee Williams • nv New Yorker Nov 1 ’52
384 • The Conqueror • Simon Wincelberg • ss Harper’s Bazaar Apr ’52
399 • Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
409 • The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1952 • Misc. Material • bi
The Best American Short Stories 1955 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1955, xii + 404pp, hc)

1 • A Matter of Price • Robert O. Bowen • ss Prairie Schooner Sum ’54
13 • The Excursionists • Nancy Cardozo • ss Mademoiselle Nov ’54
25 • Bachelor of Arts • Nancy G. Chaikin • ss The University of Kansas City Review Spr ’54
39 • The Country Husband • John Cheever • nv New Yorker Nov 20 ’54
64 • The Fisherman from Chihuahua • Evan S. Connell, Jr. • ss The Paris Review Fll-Win ’54
74 • The Decline and Fall of Augie Sheehan • Joe Coogan • ss Ladies Home Journal Oct ’54
84 • The Day of the Equinox • Daniel Curley • ss New Mexico Quarterly Review Sum ’54
96 • Little Joe • William Eastlake • ss Accent Aut ’54
107 • Brother Quintillian and Dick the Chemist • George P. Elliott • ss The Western Review Aut ’54
123 • The Hundredth Centennial • Mac Hyman • nv The Paris Review Fll-Win ’54
147 • The Resting Place • Oliver La Farge • ss New Yorker Oct 16 ’54
159 • The Magic Barrel • Bernard Malamud • ss The Paris Review Nov-Dec ’54
176 • Dead Center • Judith Merril • nv F&SF Nov ’54
202 • Portrait of My Son as a Young Man • Elizabeth H. Middleton • ss The University of Kansas City Review Aut ’54
209 • The Professor and the Poet • Marvin Mudrick • ss Shenandoah Sum ’54
219 • Yore • Howard Nemerov • ss The Hudson Review Win ’54
230 • A Circle in the Fire • Flannery O’Connor • nv The Kenyon Review Spr ’54
249 • Tip on a Dead Jockey • Irwin Shaw • nv New Yorker Mar 6 ’54
282 • Maiden in a Tower • Wallace Stegner • ss Harper’s Jan ’54
295 • Bird Man • David Stuart • ss Botteghe Oscure #13 ’54
304 • Herman’s Day • Harvey Swados • nv New World Writing #5, 1954
331 • I Got a Friend • Mark Van Doren • ss The University of Kansas City Review Spr ’54
338 • The Scale Room • George Vukelich • ss Atlantic Monthly Jun ’54
349 • Going to Naples • Eudora Welty • nv Harper’s Bazaar Jul ’54
386 • Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
391 • The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1954 • Misc. Material • bi
The Best American Short Stories 1958 ed. Martha Foley & David Burnett (Houghton Mifflin, 1958, xiv+362pp, hc); [RRH]

ix • Foreword • Martha Foley & David Burnett • fw
1 • The Waiting • James Agee • nv New Yorker, 1957
21 • Sonny’s Blues • James Baldwin • nv The Partisan Review, 1957
54 • The Frozen Fields • Paul Bowles • ss Harper’s Bazaar, 1957
73 • The Day It Rained Forever • Ray Bradbury • ss Harper’s Jul ’57
84 • “The Picture Wouldn’t Fit in the Stove” • George Bradshaw • ss Vogue, 1957
96 • As I Was Going Up the Stair • Alfred Chester • nv The Sewanee Review, 1957
119 • Hunter’s Home • Shirley Ann Grau • ss Mademoiselle, 1957
134 • Ben • Pati Hill • ss The Paris Review, 1957
150 • Legend of Two Swimmers • Robie Macauley • ss The Kenyon Review, 1957
168 • Somewhere Out of Nowhere • Jean McCord • nv Quixote, 1957
179 • A Delayed Hearing • Howard Nemerov • ss The Kenyon Review, 1957
192 • A View of the Woods • Flannery O’Connor • nv The Partisan Review, 1957
213 • La Bataille des Fleurs • Anthony Ostroff • ss The Kenyon Review, 1957
225 • The Banquet of Crow • Dorothy Parker • ss New Yorker, 1957
236 • Mr. Pruitt • Ralph Robin • nv Prairie Schooner, 1957
259 • A Reasonable Facsimile • Jean Stafford • nv New Yorker, 1957
281 • Joe, the Vanishing American • Harvey Swados • ss The Hudson Review, 1957
299 • Not Another Word • Richard Thurman • nv New Yorker, 1957
317 • Home from Camp • Bob Van Scoyk • vi EQMM Sep ’57
321 • House of Many Rooms • Robin White • ss Harper’s, 1957
337 • Big, Black, Good Man • Richard Wright • ss Esquire, 1957
349 • Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
353 • The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1957 • Misc. Material • bi
The Best American Short Stories 1959 ed. Martha Foley & David Burnett (Houghton Mifflin, 1959, xiv+402pp, hc); [RRH]

vii • Foreword • Martha Foley & David Burnett • fw
1 • Jawaharlal and the Three Cadavers • John Berry • ss The Western Review Spr ’58
15 • Winter Term • Sallie Bingham • ss Mademoiselle Jul ’58
26 • Amid a Place of Stone • Frank Butler • ss The Hudson Review Sum ’58
39 • The Bella Lingua • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Mar 1 ’58
59 • Getaway • Robert M. Coates • ss New Yorker Feb 22 ’58
76 • The Iowan’s Curse • Charles G. Finney • ss Harper’s Jul ’58
91 • Mrs. Mean • William H. Gass • nv Accent Win ’58
121 • A Day in the Life of the Boss • Hugh Geeslin, Jr. • ss Georgia Review Spr ’58
137 • Love and Like • Herbert Gold • nv The Hudson Review Aut ’58
172 • In a Tropical Minor Key • Frank Holwerda • ss Accent Aut ’58
190 • The Last Mohican • Bernard Malamud • nv The Partisan Review Spr ’58
212 • A Secret Society • Howard Nemerov • ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Spr ’58
228 • The Guy in Ward 4 • Leo Rosten • ss Harper’s May ’58
244 • The Conversion of the Jews • Philip Roth • ss The Paris Review Spr ’58
259 • A Birthday Present • Anne Sayre • ss The Colorado Quarterly Aut ’58
274 • The Man in the Toolhouse • Harvey Swados • nv The Western Review Sum ’58
311 • Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time • Peter Taylor • nv The Kenyon Review Spr ’58
340 • A Gift from the City • John Updike • nv New Yorker Apr 11 ’58
359 • The Buck in Trotevale’s • Thomas Williams • nv Esquire Aug ’58
381 • The Window • Ethel Wilson • ss The Tamarack Review Sum ’58
395 • Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
398 • The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1958 • Misc. Material • bi
The Best American Short Stories 1960 ed. Martha Foley & David Burnett (Houghton Mifflin, 1960, xvi+392pp, hc); [RRH]

vii • Foreword • Martha Foley & David Burnett • fw
1 • The Santa Ana [“Night of Yearning”] • Sanora Babb • ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 28 ’59
11 • The Day of the Bullet • Stanley Ellin • ss EQMM Oct ’59
29 • Words Words Words • George P. Elliott • ss The Hudson Review Spr ’59
44 • The Man Who Looked Like Jesus • Howard Fast • ss Esquire Dec ’59
64 • August • Mavis Gallant • nv New Yorker Aug 29 ’59
102 • An Evening Performance • George Garrett • ss Mademoiselle Apr ’59
112 • The Last Running • John Graves • ss Atlantic Monthly Jun ’59
126 • The Ledge • Lawrence Sargent Hall • ss The Hudson Review Win ’59
143 • The Purchase • Elizabeth Hardwick • nv New Yorker May 30 ’59
165 • The Hunter • Lachlan MacDonald • nv Coastlines Aut ’59
191 • The Maid’s Shoes • Bernard Malamud • ss The Partisan Review Win ’59
203 • I Don’t Need You Any More • Arthur Miller • na Esquire Dec ’59
245 • Unbelievable Characters • Howard Nemerov • ss Esquire Sep ’59
262 • Hero • Phyllis Roberts • ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Spr ’59
278 • Defender of the Faith • Philip Roth • nv New Yorker Mar 14 ’59
307 • The Man Who Lost the Sea • Theodore Sturgeon • ss F&SF Oct ’59
318 • A Glance in the Mirror • Harvey Swados • ss The Hudson Review Win ’59
334 • Who Was Jesse’s Friend and Protector? • Peter Taylor • nv The Kenyon Review Sum ’59
354 • Counterclockwise • Elizabeth Larsh Young • nv Quixote Win ’59
379 • Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
383 • The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1959 • Misc. Material • bi

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