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Fifty Best American Short Stories

By Martha Foley,Elsie Singmaster,Theodore Dreiser,Ring Lardner,Sherwood Anderson,Ernest Hemingway,Willa Cather,William March,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Wilbur Daniel Steele,William Saroyan,Thomas Wolfe,Tess Slesinger,Thomas Wolfe,Pietro Di Donato,John Steinbeck,Richard Wright,William Faulkner,Robert M. Coates,Kay Boyle,Irwin Shaw,Nancy Hale,Paul Horgan,Jesse Stuart,James Thurber,Lionel Trilling,Walter Van Tilburg Clark,John Cheever,Jean Stafford,George P. Elliott,Hortense Calisher,Ray Bradbury,Tennessee Williams,James Agee,Bernard Malamud,James Agee,Augusta Wallace Lyons,Philip Roth,Shirley Jackson,Frank Butler,Lawrence Sargent Hall,James Baldwin,Tillie Olsen,George P. Garrett,John Updike,H. W. Blattner,John Stewart Carter,William Eastlake,Joyce Carol Oates,M. (Ed.) Foley,Martha (Editor) Foley

The Best American Short Stories 1980

By Stanley Elkin,Shannon Ravenel

The Best Short Stories of 1915

By Edward J. O'Brien,Maxwell Struthers Burt,Donn Byrne,Will Levington Comfort,W. A. Dwiggins,James Francis Dwyer,Frances Gregg,Ben Hecht,Harris Merton Lyon,Walter John Muilenburg,Newbold Noyes,Seamus O'Brien,Mary Boyle O'Reilly

The Best American Short Stories 1971

By Jack Cady,Robert Canzoneri,William Eastlake,Wright Morris,Tillie Olsen,Ivan Prashker,Danny Santiago,Larry Woiwode,Russell Banks,Albert Drake,Beth Harvor,David Madden,Marion Montgomery,Philip F. O'Connor,Norman Rush,Jonathan Strong,W. D. Valgardson,Leonard Tushnet,Martha Foley,David Burnett

The Best American Short Stories 1973

By Martha Foley,Donald Barthelme,Henry Bromell,John Cheever,John J. Clayton,John William Corrington,Guy Davenport,William Eastlake,Alan Greenberg,Julie Hayden,George V. Higgins,Ward Just,James S. Kenary,Wallace E. Knight,Konstantinos Lardas,Bernard Malamud,James Alan McPherson,Joyce Carol Oates,Sylvia Plath,Erik Sandberg-Diment,David Shetzline,Tennessee Williams

The Best American Short Stories 2004

By Lorrie Moore,Katrina Kenison

The Best American Short Stories 2006

By Ann Patchett,Katrina Kenison

The Best Short Stories of 1917

By Edward J. O'Brien,Edwina Stanton Babcock,Maxwell Struthers Burt,Francis Buzzell,Irvin S. Cobb,Charles Caldwell Dobie,H.G. Dwight,Edna Ferber,Katharine Fullerton Gerould,Susan Glaspell,Frederick Stuart Greene,Richard Matthews Hallet,Fannie Hurst,Fanny Kemble Johnson,Burton Kline,Lawrence Perry,Mary Brecht Pulver,Vincent O'Sullivan,Thomas Beer,Edward J. O'brien

The Best Short Stories of 1916

By Edward J. O'Brien,Theodore Dreiser,Richard Matthews Hallet,Fannie Hurst,Dana Burnet,Francis Buzzell,Irvin S. Cobb,Elsie Singmaster,Gordon Arthur Smith,Wilbur Daniel Steele,Barry Benefield,Frederick St. George De Lautour Booth-Tucker,Armistead C. Gordon,Walter John Muilenburg,Gertrude Atherton,Frederick Stuart Greene,Albert Du Verney Pentz,Mary Lerner,Jeannette Augustus Marks,Alice L. Tildesley,Benjamin Rosenblatt,Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

The Best Short Stories of 1921

By Edward J. O'Brien

The Best American Short Stories 2011

By Geraldine Brooks,Heidi Pitlor

The Best Short Stories of 1927

By Edward J. O'Brien,Owen Wister,Ernest Hemingway,Sherwood Anderson,Harold W. Brecht,Roark Bradford,Ben Lucien Burman,Elisabeth Finley Thomas,Amory Hare,Joseph Hergesheimer,DuBose Heyward,James Hopper,Oliver La Farge,Rose Wilder Lane,Meridel Le Sueur,J. P. Marquand,Lyle Saxon,John E. Sexton,Frank Shay,Alan Sullivan,Raymond Weeks