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The Best American Short Stories 1945 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1945, hc, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · How the Devil Came Down Division Street · Nelson Algren · ss Harper’s Bazaar May 1944 8 · The First Fish · Warren Beck · ss Story #106, March/April 1944 19 · Crime Passionnel · Louis Bromfield · ss The New Yorker March 25 1944 30 · My Brother Osong’s Career in Politics · Carlos Bulosan · ss The New Yorker July 22 1944 38 · Harvest · Mary Deasy · ss The American Mercury November 1944 49 · Burial in the Desert · Edward Fenton · ss Harper’s Bazaar October 1944 64 · The Light of Morning · Morton Fineman · ss Mademoiselle January 1944 71 · Understand What I Mean? · Bill Gerry · ss The Yale Review Autumn 1944 82 · The Test · Brendan Gill · ss Good Housekeeping June 1944 90 · Be Heavy · Richard Hagopian · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1944 99 · It Never Happened · Emily Hahn · ss The New Yorker June 24 1944 109 · The Czech Dog · W. G. Hardy · ss Tomorrow December 1944 115 · Fever Flower · Josephine Johnson · ss Harper’s Bazaar March 1944 123 · Poor Everybody · Robert McLaughlin · ss The New Yorker August 26 1944 133 · Don’t Scrub Off These Names · John McNulty · ss The New Yorker September 16 1944 143 · The Animals’ Fair · Warren Miller · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1944 154 · Papa, Mama and Economics · George Panetta · ss Mademoiselle January 1944 164 · On the Way to Somewhere Else · Joseph Stanley Pennell · ss Harper’s Bazaar 1944 170 · Call a Solemn Assembly · Ruth Portugal · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1944 180 · The Owl That Kept Winking · Theodore Pratt · ss Esquire June 1944 188 · The Hand That Fed Me · Isaac Rosenfeld · ss Partisan Review Winter 1944 205 · A War Marriage · Donna Rowell · ss Story #109, September/October 1944 222 · The Mourners · Gladys Schmitt · ss Harper’s Bazaar 1944 238 · Gunners’ Passage · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker July 22 1944 257 · The Wedding: Beacon Hill · Jean Stafford · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1944 272 · Alabama Sketches · Ruby Pickens Tartt · ss Southwest Review 1944 283 · Rain in the Heart · Peter Taylor · ss The Sewanee Review Winter 1945 303 · Cass Mastern’s Wedding Ring · Robert Penn Warren · nv Partisan Review Fall 1944 344 · First Day Finish · Jessamyn West · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1944 356 · This Is a Love Story · Leane Zugsmith · ss The New Yorker January 22 1944 362 · A Ship to Tarshish · William Zukerman · ss Prairie Schooner Summer 1944

The Best American Short Stories 1946 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1946, hc, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · Jerry · Charles Angoff · ss Prairie Schooner Spring 1945 13 · Out of Line · Warren Beck · ss The Yale Review Autumn 1945 26 · The Lovers · John Berryman · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1945 40 · The Big Black and White Game · Ray Bradbury · ss The American Mercury August 1945 56 · Bury Your Own Dead · Bessie Breuer · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1945 74 · The Valley of the Shadow · T. K. Brown, III · ss Esquire July 1945 87 · The Ivory Tower · W. R. Burnett · nv Good Housekeeping March 1945 110 · The Wind and the Snow of Winter · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Winter 1945 128 · Flesh and Blood · Laurence Critchell · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1945 147 · A Sense of Danger · Mary Deasy · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1945 165 · In a Military Manner · Samuel Elkin · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1945 184 · The Norm · Elaine Gottlieb · ss The Kenyon Review Spring 1945 203 · The Mysteries of Eleusis · Elizabeth Hardwick · ss Partisan Review Spring 1945 214 · Story Without End · Josephine W. Johnson · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 1945 224 · Old Bill Bent to Drink · Ben Hur Lampman · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1945 243 · The Caller · Meyer Liben · ss Accent Spring 1945 255 · Run, Run, Run, Run · A. J. Liebling · nv The New Yorker September 29 1945 277 · The Owl and the Bens · W. O. Mitchell · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1945 292 · Time and Ebb · Vladimir Nabokov · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1945 302 · Like a Winding Sheet · Ann Petry · ss The Crisis November 1945 316 · For a Beautiful Relationship · Wentzle Ruml, III · nv The Kenyon Review Spring 1945 337 · The King’s Daughter · Gladys Schmitt · ss Story #116, November/December 1945 355 · The Bridge · Irwin Stark · nv The Antioch Review Summer 1945 400 · The Woman Who Was Loved · James Stern · ss Harper’s Bazaar January 1945 419 · Mrs. Razor · James Still · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1945 425 · The Scout Master · Peter Taylor · nv Partisan Review Summer 1945 464 · The Other Margaret · Lionel Trilling · nv Partisan Review Fall 1945 497 · Love Affair · Henrietta Weigel · nv The Kenyon Review Winter 1945 525 · The Singing Lesson · Jessamyn West · ss Harper’s Magazine January 1945 540 · Death in a Cathedral · Glennyth Woods · ss Twice a Year 1945

The Best American Short Stories 1947 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1947, hc, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · Return by Faith · Francis L. Broderick · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1946 17 · Sex Education · Dorothy Canfield · ss The Yale Review Winter 1946 31 · The Headless Hawk · Truman Capote · nv Harper’s Bazaar November 1946 56 · Day of Gold and Darkness · Robert Fontaine · ss The Yale Review Spring 1946 62 · The Man in the Mirror · Adelaide Gerstley · ss Story #122, November/December 1946 76 · The Cocoon · John B. L. Goodwin · ss Story #121, September/October 1946 95 · Bird Song · John Mayo Goss · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1946 114 · The Horse Like September · Paul Griffith · ss Tomorrow October 1946 125 · Turista · Albert J. Guérard · ss Story #117, January/February 1946 141 · The Golden Stallion · Elizabeth Hardwick · nv The Sewanee Review Winter 1946 171 · Up the Road a Piece · Ruth McCoy Harris · ss The Antioch Review Winter 1946 189 · Night Watch · Thomas Heggen · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1946 208 · Under the Ginko Trees · Edward Harris Heth · ss Town & Country February 1946 221 · Michael Finney and the Little Men · John Richard Humphreys · ss Cosmopolitan August 1946 238 · Down in the Reeds by the River · Victoria Lincoln · ss The New Yorker September 28 1946 251 · Little Baseball World · Robert Lowry · ss Mademoiselle September 1946 269 · Father Delacroix · May Davies Martenet · ss Quarterly Review of Literature v3 #2, 1946 282 · The Darkness · Jane Mayhall · ss Quarterly Review of Literature v3 #1, 1946 293 · Prince of Darkness · J. F. Powers · nv Accent Winter 1946 336 · The Greatest Idea in the World · Samson Raphaelson · ss Good Housekeeping November 1946 350 · What We Don’t Know Hurts Us · Mark Schorer · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1946 366 · Game Chickens · Allan Seager · ss Foreground Spring 1946 - Summer 1946 382 · Act of Faith · Irwin Shaw · nv The New Yorker February 2 1946 401 · The Red Dress · Sylvia Shirley · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1946 416 · The Interior Castle · Jean Stafford · ss Partisan Review November/December 1946 433 · Shock Treatment · Irwin Stark · ss Commentary August 1946 440 · The Women on the Wall · Wallace Stegner · nv Harper’s Magazine April 1946 461 · The Siege · Niccolò Tucci · ss Harper’s Magazine February 1946 476 · Bread and Games · John D. Weaver · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1946 490 · The Hidden Room · Lawrence Williams · ss Cosmopolitan November 1946

The Best American Short Stories 1948 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1948, 370pp, hc, an) vii · Foreword · Martha Foley · fw 1 · Part of the Act · Sidney Alexander · ss Story #123, January/February 1947 20 · A Distant Episode · Paul Bowles · ss Partisan Review January/February 1947 32 · I See You Never · Ray Bradbury · vi The New Yorker November 8 1947 36 · The Apprentice · Dorothy Canfield · ss Ladies’ Home Journal April 1947, as “The Once and for All” 46 · The Enormous Radio · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker May 17 1947 57 · That’s My Johnny-Boy · George R. Clay · ss Tomorrow July 1947 73 · Visitor from Philadelphia · John Bell Clayton · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1947 78 · A Letter to Mr. Priest · Margaret Cousins · ss Good Housekeeping November 1947 93 · The Hollow Heart · M. F. K. Fisher · ss ’47—The Magazine of the Year November 1947 99 · “Fly, Fly, Little Dove” · Philip Garrigan · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1947 106 · Miami-New York · Martha Gellhorn · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1947 124 · Sparrow’s Last Jump · Elliott Grennard · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1947 139 · The Human Fly · Ralph Gustafson · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1947 148 · Why Were You Sent Out Here? · John Hersey · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1947 157 · The Dawn Swings In · Lance Jeffers · ss Mainstream 1947 172 · Morning, a Week Before the Crime · Victoria Lincoln · ss Cosmopolitan May 1947 189 · The Terror in the Streets · Robert Lowry · ss Mademoiselle June 1947 200 · The Burden · John A. Lynch · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1947 213 · The Search · Vincent McHugh · ss ’47—The Magazine of the Year July 1947 222 · The Professor and the Puli · Robert Morse · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1947 236 · The Stupendous Fortune · Ruth Portugal · ss Good Housekeeping January 1947 249 · That’s the Man! · Mary Brinker Post · ss Today’s Woman February 1947 266 · Carmencita · Waverley Root · ss ’47—The Magazine of the Year December 1947 274 · The Tragedy in Jancie Brierman’s Life · Dolph Sharp · ss Story #124, March/April 1947 294 · Beyond the Glass Mountain · Wallace Stegner · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1947 305 · The Plan · Sidney Sulkin · ss The Kenyon Review Summer 1947 321 · The Whole World Knows · Eudora Welty · ss Harper’s Bazaar March 1947 341 · The Second Tree from the Corner · E. B. White · ss The New Yorker May 31 1947 347 · Biographical Notices · [uncredited] · bg 353 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1947 · [uncredited] · bi

The Best American Short Stories 1949 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1949, hc, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · Mighty, Mighty Pretty · George Albee · nv Story #129, Summer 1948 19 · The Vacation · Livingston Biddle, Jr. · ss Cosmopolitan June 1948 39 · The Farmer’s Children · Elizabeth Bishop · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1948 48 · Under the Sky · Paul Bowles · ss Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art #89, June 1947 55 · My Father and the Circus · Frank Brookhouser · ss The University of Kansas City Review Autumn 1948 60 · Exodus · Borden Deal · ss Tomorrow May 1948 72 · Small Miracle · Adele Dolokhov · ss Today’s Woman November 1948 81 · The White Hound · Ward Dorrance · ss The Hudson Review Summer 1948 94 · Li Chang’s Million · Henry Gregor Felsen · ss Woman’s Day November 1948 100 · Departure of Hubbard · Robert Gibbons · ss Tomorrow May 1948 106 · In the Flow of Time · Beatrice Griffith · ss Common Ground Autumn 1948 117 · Evenings at Home · Elizabeth Hardwick · ss Partisan Review April 1948 127 · Castle of Snow · Joseph Heller · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1948 135 · A Sound in the Night · Ruth Herschberger · ss Harper’s Bazaar April 1948 149 · Jerry · Laura Hunter · ss Mademoiselle August 1948 157 · Of the River and Uncle Pidcock · Jim Kjelgaard · ss Adventure November 1948 166 · Footnote to American History · Roderick Lull · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 1948 179 · The Vault · T. D. Mabry · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1948 193 · Vacia · Agnes Macdonald · ss Accent Autumn 1948 205 · The Men · Jane Mayhall · ss Perspective Summer 1948 212 · The Heifer · Patrick Morgan · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1948 219 · All Prisoners Here · Irving Pfeffer · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1948 238 · Episode of a House Remembered · John Rogers · ss Wake Spring 1948 248 · A Girl I Knew · J. D. Salinger · ss Good Housekeeping February 1948 261 · Justice Has No Number [Bastia] · Alfredo Segre · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #53, April 1948 285 · An Island for My Friends · Madelon Shapiro · ss Bard Review May 1948 295 · Children Are Bored on Sunday · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker February 21 1948 305 · Road to the Isles · Jessamyn West · ss The New Yorker February 21 1948

The Best American Short Stories 1950 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1950, hc, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · Where Did Yesterday Go? · Charles Angoff · ss The University of Kansas City Review Summer 1949 5 · Shadow of Evil · James Aswell · nv Today’s Woman #121, November 1949 33 · Wild Flower · Sanora Babb · ss The Kansas Magazine 1949 42 · Edge of Doom · Warren Beck · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 1949 59 · A Sermon by Doctor Pep · Saul Bellow · ss Partisan Review May 1949 67 · Death Under the Hawthornes · Peggy Bennett · ss Harper’s Bazaar October 1949 80 · Pastor Dowe at Tacaté · Paul Bowles · nv Mademoiselle February 1949 102 · Jishin · Robert Christopher · ss The Yale Review Autumn 1949 109 · The NRACP · George P. Elliott · nv The Hudson Review Autumn 1949 143 · The Fear of Innocence · Leslie A. Fiedler · na Partisan Review August 1949 191 · The Pigeon · Ralph Gustafson · ss Northern Review October 1949 - November 1949 201 · The Mouse · Marianne Hauser · ss The Tiger’s Eye June 8 1949 215 · The Author · Josephine W. Johnson · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 1949 234 · The Artist · Ralph Kaplan · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1949 250 · “Hail Brother and Farewell” · Sylvan Karchmer · ss Epoch Winter 1949 259 · Comes a Day · Speed Lamkin · ss Mademoiselle September 1949 274 · The Glass Wall · Victoria Lincoln · nv Good Housekeeping February 1949 301 · The World Outside · Howard Maier · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1949 308 · The Cape · Esther McCoy · ss Harper’s Bazaar October 1949 317 · My Brother’s Second Funeral · Edward Newhouse · ss The New Yorker October 8 1949 328 · Take Her Up Tenderly · Hoke Norris · ss Prairie Schooner Winter 1949 337 · Bright and Morning · Glidden Parker · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1949 349 · The Old Acrobat and the Ruined City · Clay Putman · ss Tomorrow December 1949 364 · Not with Our Fathers · Abraham Rothberg · ss The University of Kansas City Review Winter 1949 378 · The Promise · Ramona Stewart · ss The American Mercury June 1949 390 · A Master Time · James Still · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1949 399 · The Hired Man · Joan Strong · ss American Letters February 1949 407 · A Wife of Nashville · Peter Taylor · nv The New Yorker December 3 1949

The Best American Short Stories 1951 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1951, hc, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · Flight Through the Dark · Roger Angell · ss The New Yorker December 9 1950 10 · Inland, Western Sea · Nathan Asch · ss The New Yorker April 29 1950 24 · A Fugitive from the Mind · Peggy Bennett · ss Mademoiselle November 1950 37 · The End of the Depression · Mary Bolté · ss Harper’s Bazaar September 1950 45 · In Greenwich, There Are Many Gravelled Walks · Hortense Calisher · ss The New Yorker August 12 1950 60 · Sense of Direction · Leonard Casper · ss Southwest Review Summer 1950 73 · Larchmoor Is Not the World · R. V. Cassill · ss Furioso Winter 1950 89 · The Season of Divorce · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker March 4 1950 100 · The Hunters · Harris Downey · ss Epoch Summer 1950 115 · The Temperate Zone · Elizabeth Enright · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Autumn 1950 121 · The Kingdom of Gordon · J. Carol Goodman · ss Mademoiselle August 1950 128 · The Value of the Dollar · Ethel Edison Gordon · ss Charm October 1950 139 · Her Breath Upon the Windowpane · William Goyen · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1950 144 · The Summer People · Shirley Jackson · ss Charm September 1950 157 · The Mother’s Story · Josephine W. Johnson · ss Good Housekeeping February 1950 168 · Fru Holm · Ilona Karmel · ss Mademoiselle August 1950 187 · Old Century’s River · Oliver La Farge · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1950 201 · Old Turkey Neck · George Lanning · ss Tomorrow May 1950 210 · Portrait · Ethel G. Lewis · ss Epoch Winter 1950 218 · The Glass House · Dorothy Livesay · ss Northern Review June 1950 - July 1950 228 · The Wishbone · Robie Macauley · nv The Sewanee Review Summer 1950 253 · The Prison · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary September 1950 259 · The Butcherbirds · Esther Patt · ss The American Mercury November 1950 268 · Death of a Favorite · J. F. Powers · ss The New Yorker July 1 1950 286 · The Tabby Cat · Paul Rader · ss Quarto Spring 1950 295 · The Nemesis · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker December 16 1950 312 · The Last of the Grizzly Bears · Ray B. West, Jr. · nv Epoch Fall 1950 338 · The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin · Tennessee Williams · ss Flair February 1950