The Best American Short Stories 1944 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.[1]
| Editor | Martha Foley |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 9789997371270 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1943 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1945 |
Background
editThe 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
edit| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Sidney A. Alexander | "The White Boat" | Accent |
| William E. Barrett | "Señor Payroll" | Southwest Review |
| Saul Bellow | "Notes of a Dangling Man" | Partisan Review |
| Dorothy Canfield | "The Knot Hole" | Yale Review |
| Elizabeth Eastman | "Like a Field Mouse Over the Heart" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Helen Eustis | "The Good Days and the Bad" | Story |
| William Fifield | "The Fishermen of Patzcuaro" | Story |
| Berry Fleming | "Strike Up a Stirring Music" | Yale Review |
| Hazel Hawthorne | "More Like a Coffin" | The New Yorker |
| Noel Houston | "A Local Skirmish" | The New Yorker |
| Shirley Jackson | "Come Dance With Me in Ireland" | The New Yorker |
| Josephine W. Johnson | "The Rented Room" | Harper's Bazaar |
| H. J. Kaplan | "The Mohammedans" | Partisan Review |
| Eyre De Lanux | "The S.S. Libertad" | Tomorrow |
| William March | "The Female of the Fruit Fly" | Mademoiselle |
| Carson McCullers | "The Ballad of the Sad Café" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Astrid Meighan | "Shoe the Horse and Shoe the Mare" | The New Yorker |
| Mary Mian | "Exiles From the Creuse" | The New Yorker |
| Edita Morris | "Heart of Marzipan" | Mademoiselle |
| Vladimir Nabokov | "'That in Aleppo Once. . .'" | Atlantic Monthly |
| Ruth Portugal | "Neither Here Nor There" | Harper's Bazaar |
| J. F. Powers | "Lions, Harts, Leaping Does" | Accent |
| Gladys Schmitt | "All Souls'" | Collier's |
| Irwin Shaw | "The Veterans Reflect" | Accent |
| George Stiles | "A Return" | Kenyon Review |
| Leon Z. Surmelian | "My Russian Cap" | The New Mexico Quarterly Review |
| Lionel Trilling | "Of This Time, of That Place" | Partisan Review |
| Elizabeth Warner | "An Afternoon" | The New Yorker |
| Jessamyn West | "The Illumination" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Emmanuel Winters | "God's Agents Have Beards" | Harper's Bazaar |
References
edit- ^ Foley, Martha (ed.). The Best American Short Stories 1944. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9789997371270.
- ^ "Short and Sweet" by Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 11/05/99, issue 511, page 73.
- ^ "The Best American Short Stories of the Century," Publishers Weekly, 3/8/1999, volume 246, issue 10, page 47.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Best Stories of the Century? Not Quite, but Close Enough". Observer. 1999-05-10. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
- ^ "'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.
- ^ "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.