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The Best American Short Stories 1942 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1942, hc, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · Biceps · Nelson Algren · ss The Southern Review Spring 1941 19 · The Valet of the Splendide · Ludwig Bemelmans · ss The New Yorker October 25 1941 28 · 5135 Kensington: August, 1903 · Sally Benson · ss The New Yorker August 23 1941 41 · Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker October 4 1941 50 · For Each of Us · Jack Y. Bryan · ss American Prefaces Spring 1941 67 · The Portable Phonograph · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Spring 1941 75 · That Frozen Hour · David Cornel De Jong · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2755, September 1 1941 93 · Prairies · Boyce Eakin · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Review August 1941 105 · Tell Him I Waited · Morton Fineman · ss Story #93, November/December 1941 116 · A Loaf of Bread · Robert Gibbons · ss The New Republic December 8 1941 129 · Those Are As Brothers · Nancy Hale · ss Mademoiselle May 1941 141 · That Greek Dog · MacKinlay Kantor · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 9 1941 156 · Sam Small’s Better Half [Sam Small] · Eric Knight · ss Maclean’s June 1 1940 174 · Death of a Country Doctor · Mary Medearis · nv Story #87, January/February 1941 201 · Caput Mortuum · Edita Morris · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2752, June 1941 210 · My Friend Flicka [Ken McLaughlin & Flicka] · Mary O’Hara · nv Story #87, January/February 1941 231 · The Green Village · Margaret Rhodes Peattie · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 31 1941 245 · The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter · William Saroyan · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2752, June 1941 250 · Sacrificce of Isaac · Michael Seide · ss American Prefaces Summer 1941 259 · The Real Viennese Schmaltz · Budd Wilson Schulberg · ss Esquire September 1941 269 · Search Through the Streets of the City · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker August 2 1941 279 · In the Twilight · Wallace Stegner · ss Mademoiselle November 1941 291 · How Edith McGillcuddy Met R.L. Stevenson · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1941 303 · The Storm · Jesse Stuart · ss The Household Magazine 1941 313 · The Fancy Woman · Peter Taylor · nv The Southern Review Summer 1941 343 · My Pigeon Pair · Dorothy Thomas · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1941 355 · You Could Look It Up · James Thurber · ss The Saturday Evening Post April 5 1941 372 · The Bees · Joan Vatsek · ss Story #88, March/April 1941 385 · At Sallygap · Mary Lavin · nv The Atlantic Monthly October 1941 401 · Hunger · Marjorie Worthington · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2755, September 1 1941

The Best American Short Stories 1943 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1943, 428pp, hc, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · This Healthy Life · Vicki Baum · ss Story #97, September/October 1942 10 · Boundary Line · Warren Beck · ss Rocky Mountain Review Winter 1942 23 · Frenchman’s Ship · Kay Boyle · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 21 1942 41 · The Pleasures of Solitude · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker January 24 1942 47 · The Dream of Angelo Zara · Guido D’Agostino · ss Story #97, September/October 1942 56 · Samuel Blane · Murray Dyer · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1942 70 · The Bear · William Faulkner · na The Saturday Evening Post May 9 1942 87 · Beginning of Wisdom · Rachel Field · ss The American Magazine March 1942 105 · A Partnership with Death · Vardis Fisher · ss Rocky Mountain Review Spring 1942 - Summer 1942 115 · What Do You See, Dear Enid? · Grace Flandrau · ss The New Yorker September 26 1942 122 · Time’s End · Robert Gibbons · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1942 135 · Threnody for Stelios · Peter Gray · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 1942 144 · Who Lived and Died Believing · Nancy Hale · nv Harper’s Bazaar September 1942 166 · The Peach Stone · Paul Horgan · nv The Yale Review Summer 1942 187 · The Enchanted · Laurette MacDuffie Knight · nv Story #94, March/April 1942 218 · The Little Black Boys · Clara Laidlaw · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1942 232 · Love Is for Lovers · Mary Lavin · nv Harper’s Bazaar January 1942 256 · Young Man in an Astrakhan Cap · Edita Morris · ss Harper’s Bazaar December 1942 271 · Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing at All in the World · William Saroyan · ss Harper’s Bazaar July 1942 279 · An Argument in 1934 · Delmore Schwartz · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1942 292 · Preach on the Dusty Roads · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker August 22 1942 301 · My Public · Margaret Shedd · ss Harper’s Bazaar September 1942 310 · Chip Off the Old Block · Wallace Stegner · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Autumn 1942 327 · Death and My Uncle Felix · Alison Stuart · ss Mademoiselle October 1942 337 · Dawn of Remembered Spring · Jesse Stuart · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1942 345 · The Women · Richard Sullivan · ss Accent Autumn 1942 360 · The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 14 1942 370 · Homecoming · Jessie Treichler · nv The Antioch Review Summer 1942 391 · Philadelphia Express · Jerome Weidman · ss The New Yorker October 10 1942 400 · Asphodel · Eudora Welty · ss The Yale Review Autumn 1942

The Best American Short Stories 1944 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1944, hc, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · The White Boat · Sidney Alexander · ss Accent Summer 1943 17 · Señor Payroll · William E. Barrett · ss Southwest Review Autumn 1943 21 · Notes of a Dangling Man · Saul Bellow · ss Partisan Review September/October 1943 41 · The Knot Hole · Dorothy Canfield · nv The Yale Review Spring 1943 62 · Like a Field Mouse Over the Heart · Elizabeth Eastman · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1943 81 · The Good Days and the Bad · Helen Eustis · ss Story #104, November/December 1943 101 · The Fishermen of Patzcuaro · William Fifield · ss Story #99, January/February 1943 117 · Strike up a Stirring Music · Berry Fleming · ss The Yale Review Summer 1943 125 · More Like a Coffin · Hazel Hawthorne · vi The New Yorker June 26 1943 128 · A Local Skirmish · Noel Houston · ss The New Yorker September 11 1943 135 · Come Dance with Me in Ireland · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker May 15 1943 141 · The Rented Room · Josephine W. Johnson · nv Harper’s Bazaar June 1943 164 · The Mohammedans · H. J. Kaplan · nv Partisan Review May/June 1943 190 · The S.S. Libertad · Eyre de Lanux · ss Tomorrow August 1943 197 · The Female of the Fruit Fly · William March · ss Mademoiselle May 1943 205 · The Ballad of the Sad Café · Carson McCullers · na Harper’s Bazaar August 1943 265 · Shoe the Horse and Shoe the Mare · Astrid Meighan · ss The New Yorker January 2 1943 273 · Exiles from the Creuse · Mary Mian · ss The New Yorker December 25 1943 280 · Heart of Marzipan · Edita Morris · ss Mademoiselle October 1943 285 · “That in Aleppo Once…” · Vladimir Nabokov · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1943 295 · Neither Here nor There · Ruth Portugal · ss Harper’s Bazaar September 1943 309 · Lions, Harts, Leaping Does · J. F. Powers · nv Accent Autumn 1943 332 · All Souls’ · Gladys Schmitt · ss Collier’s November 6 1943 345 · The Veterans Reflect · Irwin Shaw · ss Accent Winter 1943 358 · A Return · George Stiles · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1943 378 · My Russian Cap · Leon Z. Surmelian · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Review Summer 1943 385 · Of This Time, of That Place · Lionel Trilling · nv Partisan Review January/February 1943 423 · An Afternoon · Elizabeth Warner · ss The New Yorker July 31 1943 430 · The Illumination · Jessamyn West · ss Harper’s Bazaar October 1943 443 · God’s Agents Have Beards · Emmanuel Winters · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1943

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 (r) 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 (r) 353 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1947 · [uncredited] · bi (r)