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The Best Short Stories of 1937 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1937, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · The Man Who Won the War · Robert Buckner · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1936 · The Last Equation · Roger Burlingame · ss (r) · The Voyage Out · Morley Callaghan · ss The New Yorker June 27 1936 · Enter Daisy; To Her, Alexandra · Charles Cooke · ss Story #47, June 1936 · Fool About a Horse · William Faulkner · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1936 · Goodbye to Cap’m John · S. S. Field · ss (r) · Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! · Martha Foley · ss Story #48, July 1936 · Chains · Elma Godchaux · ss The Southern Review Spring 1936 · The Poet · Albert Halper · ss (r) · The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Ernest Hemingway · nv Esquire August 1936 · Homecoming · Edward Harris Heth · ss (r) · The Surgeon and the Nun · Paul Horgan · ss Harper’s Bazaar December 1936 · The Girl with the Flaxen Hair · Manuel Komroff · ss Esquire September 1936 · Awakening and the Destination · David E. Krantz · ss (r) · Second Wife · Harry Harrison Kroll · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1936 · The Intrigue of Mr. S. Yamamoto · R. H. Linn · ss Story #52, November 1936 · Titty’s Dead and Tatty Weeps · Ursula MacDougall · ss New Stories (UK) December 1935/January 1936 · Let Nothing You Dismay · Allen McGinnis · ss (r) · Maybe the Sun Will Shine · William March · ss (r) · A Blade of Grass · Edita Morris · ss Story #49, August 1936 · Marching Orders · I. V. Morris · nv New Stories (UK) April/May 1936 · The Old Order · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Southern Review Winter 1936 · A Passenger to Bali · Ellis St. Joseph · nv Story #52, November 1936 · The Crusade · William Saroyan · ss Scribner’s Magazine April 1936 · Hair · Jesse Stuart · ss The American Mercury July 1936 · Lieutenant Pearson · Benedict Thielen · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1936 · The Iron City · Lovell Thompson · nv Story #44, March 1936 · Arrival on a Holiday · Wilson Wright · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1936 · Room in the World · Leane Zugsmith · ss Story #49, August 1936

The Best Short Stories of 1938 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1938, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · Mr. Sycamore · Robert Ayre · na Story #57, April 1937 · Blind Man’s Buff · Libby Benedict · ss (r) · A Tooth for Paul Revere · Stephen Vincent Benet · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1937 · Mr. Mergenthwirker’s Lobblies [Lobblies] · Nelson S. Bond · ss Scribner’s Magazine November 1937 · The Cheat’s Remorse · Morley Callaghan · ss Esquire October 1937 · The Brothers · John Cheever · ss The Yale Review Summer 1937 · What Hurts Is That I Was in a Hurry · Vladimir Cherkasski · ss (r) · Dear Mr. Fessheimer · Whitfield Cook · ss (r) · Niggers Are Such Liars · Richard Paulette Creyke · ss Story #60, July 1937 · Christ in Concrete · Pietro di Donato · ss Esquire March 1937 · Black Wind and Lightning · Michael Fessier · ss Esquire December 1937 · Turkey Hunt · Alberta Pierson Hannum · ss Story #65, December 1937 · The Whole World Is Outside · Manuel Komroff · ss Esquire July 1937 · The Girl · Meridel Le Sueur · ss The Yale Review 1937 · She Always Wanted Shoes · Don Ludlow · ss (r) · Little Bride · Dorothy McCleary · ss Harper’s Bazaar 1938 · The Last Meeting · William March · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1937 · To Those Who Wait · Elick Moll · ss Scribner’s Magazine April 1937 · The Spaniard · Prudencio de Pereda · ss Story #58, May 1937 · A Russian Idyll · Frederic Prokosch · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 1937 · A Real American Fellow · George Thorp Rayner · ss Story #57, April 1937 · The Haunted Palace · Elizabeth Madox Roberts · nv Harper’s Magazine July 1937 · Boy in the Summer Sun · Mark Schorer · ss Story #55, February 1937 · Pro Arte · Allan Seager · ss Scribner’s Magazine February 1937 · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 · Huey, the Engineer · Jesse Stuart · ss Esquire August 1937 · The Amateurs · Harvey B. Swados · ss (r) · Christmas Gift · Robert Penn Warren · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 1937 · Lily Daw and the Three Ladies · Eudora Welty · ss Prairie Schooner Winter 1937 · Off the Highway · Ira Wolfert · ss Esquire October 1937

The Best Short Stories of 1939 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1939, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · The Blue Sash · Warren Beck · ss Story #68, March 1938 · Vision in the Sea · Ronald Caldwell · ss (r) · It Had to Be Done · Morley Callaghan · ss (r) · Frère Jacques · John Cheever · ss (r) · Indian in the Road · Gean Clark · ss (r) · Passing Through · Robert M. Coates · ss (r) · Black Troubadour · David L. Cohn · ss (r) · Corporal Hardy · Richard Ely Danielson · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1938 · The Rat Is a Mouse · Hal Ellson · ss Story #74, November/December 1938 · Prelude · Albert Halper · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1938 · To the Mountains · Paul Horgan · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1938 · True Believer · Madge Jenison · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1938 · What Is a Miracle? · Manuel Komroff · ss Esquire January 1938 · Salutation to Spring · Meridel Le Sueur · ss (r) · An Arm Upraised · Alan MacDonald · ss (r) · The Happiest Man on Earth · Albert Maltz · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1938 · Leviathan · Ellis St. Joseph · ss Redbook Magazine September 1938 · Piano · William Saroyan · ss (r) · The Girl from the River Barge · Walter Schoenstedt · ss Esquire August 1938 · Berkshire Comedy · Allan Seager · ss Story #70, May 1938 · Bad Boy from Brooklyn · Michael Seide · ss (r) · Eustacia · Jesse Stuart · ss (r) · The Crazy Guy · Harry Sylvester · ss Esquire April 1938 · The Thunderstorm · Benedict Thielen · ss Story #74, November/December 1938 · How Willie Proudfit Came Home · Robert Penn Warren · ss (r) · A Curtain of Green · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Autumn 1938 · Black Tobias and the Empire · Heinz Werner · ss Esquire May 1938 · The Way the Luck Runs · Ira Wolfert · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1938 · The White Camel · Eugene Wright · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1938 · Bright and Morning Star · Richard Wright · nv New Masses May 10 1938

The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1940, hc, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · Anschluss · Kay Boyle · nv Harper’s Magazine April 1939 20 · The People v. Abe Lathan, Colored · Erskine Caldwell · ss Esquire August 1939 30 · Getting on in the World · Morley Callaghan · ss The American Mercury May 1939 37 · Roof Sitter · Frances Eisenberg · ss Story #77, May/June 1939 53 · The Fall of Machine Gun McGurk · James T. Farrell · ss The Canadian Forum July 1939 65 · Hand Upon the Waters [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 4 1939 82 · Design in Plaster · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss Esquire November 1939 89 · Frankie and Thomas and Bud Asbury · Caroline Gordon · nv The Southern Review Spring 1939 109 · Under the Ridge · Ernest Hemingway · ss Cosmopolitan October 1939 123 · Honey House · Mary King · nv The Southern Review Autumn 1939 145 · Death of an Outcast · Manuel Komroff · ss Esquire April 1939 155 · That Fine Place We Had Last Year · Roderick Lull · ss Story #79, September/October 1939 170 · Your General Does Not Sleep · Emilio Lussu · nv The Atlantic Monthly May 1939 194 · Something Jolly · Dorothy McCleary · ss Story #79, September/October 1939 214 · Kullan · Edita Morris · ss Story #77, May/June 1939 229 · The Beautiful Fire · I. V. Morris · ss Story #77, May/June 1939 244 · Family History · P. M. Pasinetti · nv The Southern Review Summer 1939 285 · The Way Death Comes · Prudencio de Pereda · ss Story #79, September/October 1939 296 · Herself · James Pooler · ss Story #76, March/April 1939 311 · The Downward Path to Wisdom · Katherine Anne Porter · nv Harper’s Bazaar #2731, December 1939 333 · The Presbyterian Choir Singers · William Saroyan · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1939 344 · Words Without Music · Michael Seide · ss American Prefaces December 1939 357 · Main Currents of American Thought · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker August 5 1939 368 · The Seven Men of Rouen · George Slocombe · ss Esquire December 1939 381 · Four Worms Turning · Morton Stern · ss Story #77, May/June 1939 387 · The Two Deaths of Kaspar Rausch · Hans Otto Storm · nv The Yale Review June 1939 422 · Rich Men · Jesse Stuart · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1939 433 · Beautifully and Bravely · Harry Sylvester · ss Collier’s February 25 1939 450 · Night and the Lost Armies · Benedict Thielen · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1939 459 · The Hitch-Hikers · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Autumn 1939 476 · Resurgam · Louis Zara · ss Creative Writing May 1939

The Best Short Stories of 1941 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1941, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · Shadow of a Girl · E. B. Ashton · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1940 · All Around the Town · Stephen Vincent Benet · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1940 · Handy · Erskine Caldwell · ss The New Republic September 23 1940 · Big Jules · Morley Callaghan · ss (r) · The Net · Robert M. Coates · ss The New Yorker January 27 1940 · Mamma Is a Lady · David Cornel De Jong · vi Harper’s Magazine November 1940 · To the Least… · Henry Exall · ss (r) · A Nun No More · John Fante · ss (r) · Gold Is Not Always · William Faulkner · ss (r) · Color Trouble · Harold Garfinkel · ss (r) · The Magic Wire · Felicia Gizycka · nv Story #85, September/October 1940 · Smile for the Man, Dear · Justin Herman · ss (r) · The Life of the Mind · Weldon Kees · ss (r) · The White Bull · Mary King · ss (r) · Some People Are Just Plumb Crazy · Arthur Kober · ss The New Yorker March 9 1940 · Scorn and Comfort · Christopher La Farge · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1940 · The System Was Doomed · Meyer Levin · ss Story #85, September/October 1940 · Don’t Get Me Wrong · Roderick Lull · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1940 · Sunday Morning on Twentieth Street · Albert Maltz · ss (r) · Ill-Winds from the Wide World · Peter Neagoe · ss Story #84, July/August 1940 · The Three Swimmers and the Educated Grocer · William Saroyan · ss Story #83, May/June 1940 · Triumph of Justice · Irwin Shaw · ss Esquire December 1940 · The Butcher · Wilma Shore · ss Story #86, November/December 1940 · Goin’ to Town · Wallace Stegner · ss (r) · Love · Jesse Stuart · vi Story #83, May/June 1940 · The Psychologist · Benedict Thielen · ss (r) · Houdini · Jerome Weidman · ss The New Yorker July 20 1940 · Strip-Tease · George Weller · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1940 · Almos’ a Man · Richard Wright · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2732, January 1940

50 Best American Short Stories 1915-1939 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1939, x+928pp, hc, an)     Details supplied by Douglas A. Anderson. 1 · The Yellow Cat · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine March 1915 23 · The Lost Phoebe · Theodore Dreiser · ss The Century Magazine April 1916 42 · The Menorah · Benjamin Rosenblatt · ss The Bellman #512, May 6 1916 49 · Onnie · Thomas Beer · nv The Century Magazine May 1917 73 · Boys Will Be Boys [Judge William Pitman Priest (Old Judge Priest)] · Irvin S. Cobb · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 20 1917 115 · The Meeker Ritual · Joseph Hergesheimer · nv The Century Magazine June 1919 (+1) 142 · Turkey Red · Frances Gilchrist Wood · ss Pictorial Review November 1919 158 · Fanutza · Konrad Bercovici · ss The Dial May 1921 175 · My Old Man · Ernest Hemingway · ss Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway, McAlman's Contract Publishing Co., 1923 191 · Four Generations · Ruth Suckow · ss The American Mercury January 1924 206 · The Return · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Century Magazine May 1925 226 · An Army with Banners · Katharine Fullerton Gerould · nv Harper’s Magazine August 1925 255 · Haircut · Ring W. Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925 269 · The Half Pint Flask · DuBose Heyward · ss The Bookman May 1927 288 · North Is Black · Oliver La Farge · ss The Dial January 1927 302 · Good Morning, Major · J. P. Marquand · nv The Saturday Evening Post December 11 1926 333 · A Telephone Call · Dorothy Parker · ss The Bookman January 1928 340 · Double Birthday · Willa Cather · nv The Forum February 1929 370 · Death of Red Peril · Walter D. Edmonds · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1928 383 · The Faithful Wife · Morley Callaghan · ss The New Yorker December 28 1929 389 · The Little Wife · William March · ss The Midland January/February 1930 403 · Rest Cure · Kay Boyle · ss Story #1, April/May 1931 413 · That Evening Sun · William Faulkner · nv The American Mercury March 1931 434 · Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931 459 · One with Shakespeare · Martha Foley · ss Story #1, April/May 1931 468 · A Pretty Cute Little Stunt · George Milburn · ss The American Mercury February 1931 478 · Sherrel · Whit Burnett · ss Story #2, June/July 1931 487 · Napoleon’s Hat Under Glass · Manuel Komroff · ss Story #6, March/April 1932 491 · Shepherd of the Lord · Peter Neagoe · nv Story #4, November/December 1931 512 · Fame Takes the J Car · George Albee · ss Story #10, December 1932 526 · Helen, I Love You! · James T. Farrell · ss The American Mercury July 1932 535 · Ike and Us Moons · Naomi Shumway · ss Story #9, October 1932 553 · Horse Thief · Erskine Caldwell · ss Vanity Fair (US) November 1933 561 · Winter · Dorothy M’Cleary · nv Story #17, December 1933 588 · Death and Transfiguration · Alan Marshall · ss Story #15, October 1933 606 · Outside Yuma · Benjamin Appel · ss New Stories (UK) April/May 1934 614 · The Overcoat · Sally Benson · ss The American Mercury November 1934 620 · Resurrection of a Life · William Saroyan · ss Story #28, November 1934 633 · This Town and Salamanca · Allan Seager · ss Story #25, August 1934 645 · Man on a Road · Albert Maltz · ss New Masses January 8 1935 655 · A Life in the Day of a Writer · Tess Slesinger · ss Story #40, November 1935 669 · American Nocturne · Robert Whitehand · ss American Prefaces December 1935 678 · Only the Dead Know Brooklyn · Thomas Wolfe · ss The New Yorker June 15 1935 685 · Marching Orders · I. V. Morris · nv New Stories (UK) April/May 1936 716 · Hair · Jesse Stuart · ss The American Mercury July 1936 734 · The Iron City · Lovell Thompson · nv Story #44, March 1936 766 · Christ in Concrete · Pietro di Donato · ss Esquire March 1937 783 · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 796 · Corporal Hardy · Richard Ely Danielson · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1938 810 · Bright and Morning Star · Richard Wright · nv New Masses May 10 1938 851 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg (r) 869 · Study Guides · Wilbur L. Schramm · ms (r)