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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

The Best American Short Stories 1952 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1952, hc, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · That Lovely Green Boat · Bill Berge · ss Furioso Fall 1951 18 · The Other River · Robert O. Bowen · ss The Western Review Summer 1951 31 · The Lost · Kay Boyle · ss Tomorrow March 1951 49 · The Other Foot · Ray Bradbury · ss New-Story #1, March 1951 61 · A Wreath for Miss Totten · Hortense Calisher · ss Mademoiselle July 1951 71 · The Unborn Ghosts · Nancy Cardozo · ss The New Yorker June 30 1951 86 · The Climate of the Family · Nancy G. Chaikin · ss Mademoiselle January 1951 97 · Wood Smoke · Ann Chidester · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1951 108 · The Motion of Forgetfulness Is Slow · Charles Edward Eaton · ss Epoch Summer 1951 118 · The Children of Ruth · George P. Elliott · nv The Hudson Review Winter 1951 148 · The First Face · Elizabeth Enright · vi The New Yorker December 15 1951 151 · The Conversion of Willie Heaps · Hugh Garner · ss Northern Review February 1951 - March 1951 160 · Weekend at Grimsby · Martha Gellhorn · nv The Atlantic Monthly May 1951 181 · Always Good for a Belly Laugh · Emilie Glen · ss Prairie Schooner Summer 1951 190 · Brahmin Beachhead · Nancy Hale · ss Town & Country June 1951 204 · What’s in a Corner · Philip Horton · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Spring 1951 212 · The Searchers · Susan Kuehn · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1951 225 · The Call · Bethel Laurence · ss Today’s Woman March 1951 237 · Cyclists’ Raid · Frank Rooney · nv Harper’s Magazine January 1951 254 · Palo · William Saroyan · ss Tomorrow March 1951 264 · I’m Really Fine · Stuart Schulberg · ss New-Story #7, October 1951 271 · The Healthiest Girl in Town · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker April 7 1951 289 · The Traveler · Wallace Stegner · ss Harper’s Magazine February 1951 298 · A Ride on the Short Dog · James Still · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1951 305 · The Letters · Harvey Swados · nv The Hudson Review Spring 1951 331 · Nobody Say a Word · Mark Van Doren · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1951 336 · Evensong · Daniel Waldron · ss New-Story #7, October 1951 347 · Loud Sing Cuckoo · Christine Weston · ss Mademoiselle November 1951 361 · Yoneko’s Earthquake · Hisaye Yamamoto · ss Furioso Winter 1951

The Best American Short Stories 1953 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1953, xvi + 425pp, hc, an)     Details supplied by Rich Horton. 1 · A Mother’s Tale · James Agee · nv Harper’s Bazaar July 1952 19 · A Mountain Summer · James Ballard · nv The Hopkins Review Summer 1952 41 · The Town Mouse · Stephen Becker · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1952 53 · At Mrs. Farrelly’s · Joseph Carroll · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1952 62 · The Life of the Sleeping Beauty · R. V. Cassill · nv Accent Winter 1952 81 · The Need · Robert M. Coates · ss The New Yorker August 30 1952 90 · Morning Sun · Mary Deasy · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 1952 101 · Crispin’s Way · Harris Downey · ss Epoch Fall 1952 112 · Struttin’ with Some Barbecue · Osborn Duke · ss New World Writing #2, Mentor, 1952 127 · Faq’ · George P. Elliott · ss The Hudson Review Spring 1952 137 · A Death in the Family · Wingate Froscher · ss Epoch Summer 1952 145 · Athens, Greece, 1942 · Vahan Krikorian Gregory · ss Armenian Review Autumn 1952 154 · A Spot in History · James B. Hall · ss Epoch Spring 1952 165 · The Buffalo Wallow · Charles Tenney Jackson · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1952, as by Jack Tennison 176 · Fly Away Home · Roberts Jackson · ss Accent Spring 1952 189 · Dog Days · Madison P. Jones, Jr. · nv Perspective Spring 1952 207 · Beachhead in Bohemia · Willard Marsh · ss Southwest Review Summer 1952 214 · The Hill People · Elizabeth Marshall · ss Mademoiselle August 1952 227 · The Whipping · Felix Noland · ss McCall’s January 1952 239 · The Picnic · Constance Pendergast · nv Perspective Winter 1952 257 · Change of Plan · Ken Purdy · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1952 263 · Our Vegetable Love · Clay Putnam · ss Furioso Summer 1952 279 · Workout on the River · Roger Shattuck · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1952 294 · Oreste · Henry Shultz · nv The New Mexico Quarterly Summer 1952 321 · The Fugue of the Fig Tree · Stanley Sultan · ss The Kenyon Review Summer 1952 332 · Still, Still So · Mark Van Doren · ss Park East November 1952 344 · A Week of Roses · Donald Wesely · ss The Hopkins Review Fall 1952 353 · The Forest of the Night · Christine Weston · ss The New Yorker November 22 1952 363 · Three Players of a Summer Game · Tennessee Williams · nv The New Yorker November 1 1952 384 · The Conqueror · Simon Wincelberg · ss Harper’s Bazaar April 1952 399 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg (r) 409 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1952 · [uncredited] · bi (r)

The Best American Short Stories 1954 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1954, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · A Great Reckoning in a Little Room · Geoffrey Bush · ss (r) · A Beautiful Night for Orion · Richard Clay · ss (r) · The Sense That in the Scene Delights · Benjamin DeMott · ss Partisan Review January/February 1953 · A Stop on the Way to Texas · Ward Dorrance · ss (r) · The Firebird · LeGarde S. Doughty · ss (r) · Apple Seed and Apple Thorn · Elizabeth Enright · ss (r) · My Brother Down There · Steve Frazee · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #113, April 1953 · A Change of Air · Ivan Gold · nv New World Writing #4, Mentor, 1953 · Farewell, Sweet Love · Priscilla Heath · ss (r) · The House on the Esplanade · Anne Hébert · ss (r) · Char on Raven’s Bench · Frank Holwerda · ss (r) · Gertrude and Sidney · Randall Jarrell · ss The Sewanee Review Autumn 1953 · No Way Down · Almet Jenks · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 14 1953 · The Latter End · George Loveridge · ss (r) · The Game · Frances Gray Patton · ss The New Yorker May 9 1953 · The Red Mountain · Robert Payne · ss Harper’s Magazine February 1953 · The Mango Tree · Rosanne Smith Robinson · ss (r) · In the French Style · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker January 17 1953 · The Shorn Lamb · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker January 24 1953 · The Pale Green Fishes · Kressmann Taylor · ss (r) · The Third Guest · B. Traven · nv Fantastic March/April 1953 translation from the German of “Macario”, published in Zurich in 1950. · The Man in Gray · Christine Weston · ss (r) · The Indomitable Blue · Ira Wolfert · ss Esquire December 1953 · The Rock · Vurell Yentzen · ss (r)

The Best American Short Stories 1955 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1955, xii + 404pp, hc, an) 1 · A Matter of Price · Robert O. Bowen · ss Prairie Schooner Summer 1954 13 · The Excursionists · Nancy Cardozo · ss Mademoiselle November 1954 25 · Bachelor of Arts · Nancy G. Chaikin · ss The University of Kansas City Review Spring 1954 39 · The Country Husband · John Cheever · nv The New Yorker November 20 1954 64 · The Fisherman from Chihuahua · Evan S. Connell, Jr. · ss The Paris Review #7, Fall 1954/Winter 1955 74 · The Decline and Fall of Augie Sheehan · Joe Coogan · ss Ladies’ Home Journal October 1954 84 · The Day of the Equinox · Daniel Curley · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Summer 1954 96 · Little Joe · William Eastlake · ss Accent Autumn 1954 107 · Brother Quintillian and Dick the Chemist · George P. Elliott · ss The Western Review Autumn 1954 123 · The Hundredth Centennial · Mac Hyman · nv The Paris Review #7, Fall 1954/Winter 1955 147 · The Resting Place · Oliver La Farge · ss The New Yorker October 16 1954 159 · The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss Partisan Review November/December 1954 176 · Dead Center · Judith Merril · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1954 202 · Portrait of My Son as a Young Man · Elizabeth H. Middleton · ss The University of Kansas City Review Autumn 1954 209 · The Professor and the Poet · Marvin Mudrick · ss Shenandoah Summer 1954 219 · Yore · Howard Nemerov · ss The Hudson Review Winter 1954 230 · A Circle in the Fire · Flannery O’Connor · nv The Kenyon Review Spring 1954 249 · Tip on a Dead Jockey · Irwin Shaw · nv The New Yorker March 6 1954 282 · Maiden in a Tower · Wallace Stegner · ss Harper’s Magazine January 1954 295 · Bird Man · David Stuart · ss Botteghe Oscure #13, 1954 304 · Herman’s Day · Harvey Swados · nv New World Writing #5, Mentor, 1954 331 · I Got a Friend · Mark Van Doren · ss The University of Kansas City Review Spring 1954 338 · The Scale Room · George Vukelich · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1954 349 · Going to Naples · Eudora Welty · nv Harper’s Bazaar July 1954 386 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg (r) 391 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1954 · [uncredited] · bi (r)

The Best American Short Stories 1956 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1956, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · The Snow Owl · Morris Brown · ss (r) · We’re All Guests · George R. Clay · ss (r) · In a Foreign City · Robert M. Coates · ss The New Yorker May 14 1955 · The Undertow · Wesley Ford David · ss (r) · The Devil on a Hot Afternoon · Ward Dorrance · ss (r) · The Hobo · Harris Downey · ss (r) · The Quiet Chimneys · William Eastlake · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1955 · Is He Dead? · George P. Elliott · nv (r) · Free the Canaries from Their Cages! · Arthur Granit · ss Commentary September 1955 · How Levon Dai Was Surrendered to the Edemuses · Marjorie Anaïs Housepian · ss (r) · One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts · Shirley Jackson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1955 · The Mexican Girl · Jack Kerouac · ss The Paris Review #11, Winter 1955 · Creole Love Song · Nathaniel LaMar · ss (r) · The First Flower · Augusta Wallace Lyons · ss New Campus Writing ed. Nolan Miller, Bantam, 1955 · Twenty Below, At the End of a Lane · Ruth Branning Molloy · ss (r) · The Artificial Nigger · Flannery O’Connor · ss A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor, Harcourt, 1955 · The Contest for Aaron Gold · Philip Roth · ss Epoch Fall 1955 · The Machine · John Shepley · ss (r) · Four Annas · Christine Weston · ss (r) · Reginald Pomfret Skelton · Samuel Yellen · ss (r)