The Best American Short Stories 1949

1949 short story anthology

The Best American Short Stories 1949 Editor| Martha Foley

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Language| English
Series| The Best American Short Stories
Publisher| Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Media type| Print
ISBN| 978-9997371447
Preceded by| The Best American Short Stories 1948
Followed by| The Best American Short Stories 1950

The Best American Short Stories 1949 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.[1]

## Background

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The series is considered one of the "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction"[2] and has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature.[3][4][5]

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.[6] 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.[7]

## Short stories included

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Author | Story | Source

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George Albee | "Mighty, Mighty Pretty"  | Story
Livingston Biddle, Jr. | "The Vacation"  | Cosmopolitan Magazine
Elizabeth Bishop | "The Farmer's Children"  | Harper's Bazaar
Paul Bowles | "Under the Sky"  | Partisan Review
Frank Brookhouser | "My Father and the Circus"  | University of Kansas City Review
Borden Deal | "Exodus"  | Tomorrow Magazine
Adele Dolokhov | "Small Miracle"  | Today's Woman
Ward Dorrance | "The White Hound"  | The Hudson Review
Henry Gregor Felsen | "Li Chang's Million"  | Woman's Day Magazine
Robert Gibbons  | "Departure of Hubbard"  | Tomorrow Magazine
Beatrice Griffith | "In the Flow of Time"  | Common Ground
Elizabeth Hardwick | "Evenings at Home"  | Partisan Review
Joseph Heller | "Castle of Snow"  | The Atlantic Monthly
Ruth Herschberger | "A Sound in the Night"  | Harper's Bazaar
Laura Hunter  | "Jerry"  | Mademoiselle
Jim Kjelgaard | "Of the River and Uncle Pidcock"  | Adventure
Roderick Lull | "Footnote to American History"  | The Virginia Quarterly Review
T. D. Mabry | "The Vault"  | The Kenyon Review
Agnes Macdonald  | "Vacia"  | Accent
Jane Mayhall | "The Men"  | Perspective
Patrick Morgan  | "The Heifer"  | The Atlantic Monthly
Irving Pfeffer | "All Prisoners Here"  | Harper's Magazine
John Rogers  | "Episode of a House Remembered"  | Wake
J. D. Salinger | "A Girl I Knew"  | Good Housekeeping
Alfredo Segre | "Justice Has No Number"  | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Madelon Shapiro | "An Island For My Friends"  | Bard Review
Jean Stafford | "Children Are Bored on Sunday"  | The New Yorker
Jessamyn West | "Road to the Isles"  | The New Yorker

## References

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1. ^ Foley, Martha, ed. (June 1, 1949). The Best American Short Stories 1949. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-9997371447. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
2. ^ "Short and Sweet" by Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 11/05/99, issue 511, page 73.
3. ^ "The Best American Short Stories of the Century," Publishers Weekly, 3/8/1999, volume 246, issue 10, page 47.
4. ^ Hempel, Amy (1986-02-09). "The Best American Short Stories 1985 : edited by Gail Godwin with Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95, hardcover; $8.95, paperback; 300 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
5. ^ "Best Stories of the Century? Not Quite, but Close Enough". Observer. 1999-05-10. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
6. ^ "'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.
7. ^ "Review: '100 Years of Best American Short Stories' is vital yet flawed for loading the canon". Los Angeles Times. 2015-10-09. Retrieved 2025-04-10.

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