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This resource provides information on a popular literary genre - the 20th-century American short story. It contains articles on stories that share a particular theme, and over 100 pieces on individual writers and their work. There are also articles on promising new writers entering the scene.

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An eminently useful work. While there are other books on short stories and on the authors included here, this new resource is unusually well done... The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story is essential for academic libraries and is highly recommended for public and school libraries. -- Neal Wyatt Library Journal The Columbia Companion offers deeper coverage of American short stories... [this] would be an asset to library collections at the high-school and college levels. Booklist Particularly useful because it includes contemporary authors who are difficult to find... The writing is uniformly excellent, and the efficient index includes authors, story titles, book titles, and subjects. -- J. E. Sheets Choice Here are the categories of a postcanonical era with a vengeance: not just stories with a thematic cycle but also those written by African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano-Latinos, lesbians and gays, Native Americans, non-English speakers, members of the working class, people concerned with the Holocaust, and even those with ecological interests. American Literary Scholarship Each entry presents a critique of at least two of an author's stories, a biliography of the story collections, and recommendations for more sustained critiques of the author's work. American Literature This reference will be well-used by high school students seeking resources for the ubiquitous literary 'term paper.' And in so doing, they may begin to develop a 'sense of what makes a writer unique.' -- Virginia Wallace ALA Bibliography

Table of Contents
Introduction Part I. Thematic Essays The American Short Story Cycle The American Short Story, 1807-1900 The African American Short Story The Asian American Short Story The Chicano-Latino Short Story The Ecological Short Story Lesbian and Gay Short Stories The Native American Short Story Non-English American Short Stories The American Working-Class Short Story American Short Stories of the Holocaust Part II. Individual Writers and Their Work Alice Adams (1926-1999) Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) James Baldwin (1924-1987) John Barth (1930- ) Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) Rick Bass (1959- ) Richard Bausch (1945- ) Charles Baxter (1947- ) Ann Beattie (1947- ) Saul Bellow (1915- ) Gina Berriault (1926- ) Doris Betts (1932- ) Paul Bowles (1910-1999) Kay Boyle (1902-1992) Ray Bradbury (1920- ) Kate Braverman (1950- ) Larry Brown (1951- ) Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) Hortense Calisher (1911- ) Truman Capote (1924-1984) Raymond Carver (1938-1988) Willa Cather (1873-1947) John Cheever (1912-1982) Sandra Cisneros (1954- ) Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909-1971) Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930- ) Robert Coover (1932- ) Lydia Davis (1947- ) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1953- ) Andre Dubus (1936-1999) Deborah Eisenberg (1946- ) Stanley Elkin (1930-1995) George P. Elliott (1918-1980) John Fante (1909-1983) James T. Farrell (1904-1979) William Faulkner (1897-1962) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Richard Ford (1944- ) Mary Gaitskill (1954- ) William H. Gass (1924- ) Ellen Gilchrist (1935- ) Herbert Gold (1924- ) Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Amy Hempel (1951- ) Mary Hood (1946- ) Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) Jamaica Kincaid (1949- ) Ring Lardner (1885-1933) David Leavitt (1961- ) Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- ) Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996) Shirley Geok-lin Lim (1944- ) Jack London (1876-1916) David Wong Louie (1954- ) Norman Mailer (1923- ) Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) Bobbie Anne Mason (1940- ) Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) Elizabeth McCracken (1966- ) Carson McCullers (1917-1967) Thomas McGuane (1939- ) James Alan McPherson (1943- ) Nicholasa Mohr (1938- ) Lorrie Moore (1957- ) Toshio Mori (1910-1980) Bharati Mukherjee (1940- ) Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) Tim O'Brien (1946- ) Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) John O'Hara (1905-1970) Tillie Olsen (1913?- ) Simon Ortiz (1941- ) Cynthia Ozick (1928- ) Grace Paley (1922- ) Americo Paredes (1915-1999) Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Jayne Anne Phillips (1952- ) Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862-1910) E. Annie Proulx (1935- ) Thomas Pynchon (1937- ) Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) Alberto Alvaro Rios (1952- ) Philip Roth (1933- ) Damon Runyon (1880-1946) J. D. Salinger (1919- ) Bienvenido N. Santos (1911-1996) William Saroyan (1908-1981) Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- ) Jean Stafford (1915-1979) Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Elizabeth Tallent (1954- ) Peter Taylor (1917-1994) James Thurber (1894-1961) John Updike (1932- ) Helena Maria Viramontes (1954- ) Anna Lee Walters (1946- ) Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) Sylvia A. Watanabe (1953- ) Eudora Welty (1909- ) Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Joy Williams (1944- ) Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Tobias Wolff (1945- ) Richard Wright (1908-1960) Hisaye Yamamoto (1921- ) Anzia Yezierska (1881-1970) Index

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: 08/03/2001
      ISBN13: 9780231110983, 978-0231110983
      ISBN10: 0231110987
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This resource provides information on a popular literary genre - the 20th-century American short story. It contains articles on stories that share a particular theme, and over 100 pieces on individual writers and their work. There are also articles on promising new writers entering the scene.

      Trade Review
      An eminently useful work. While there are other books on short stories and on the authors included here, this new resource is unusually well done... The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story is essential for academic libraries and is highly recommended for public and school libraries. -- Neal Wyatt Library Journal The Columbia Companion offers deeper coverage of American short stories... [this] would be an asset to library collections at the high-school and college levels. Booklist Particularly useful because it includes contemporary authors who are difficult to find... The writing is uniformly excellent, and the efficient index includes authors, story titles, book titles, and subjects. -- J. E. Sheets Choice Here are the categories of a postcanonical era with a vengeance: not just stories with a thematic cycle but also those written by African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano-Latinos, lesbians and gays, Native Americans, non-English speakers, members of the working class, people concerned with the Holocaust, and even those with ecological interests. American Literary Scholarship Each entry presents a critique of at least two of an author's stories, a biliography of the story collections, and recommendations for more sustained critiques of the author's work. American Literature This reference will be well-used by high school students seeking resources for the ubiquitous literary 'term paper.' And in so doing, they may begin to develop a 'sense of what makes a writer unique.' -- Virginia Wallace ALA Bibliography

      Table of Contents
      Introduction Part I. Thematic Essays The American Short Story Cycle The American Short Story, 1807-1900 The African American Short Story The Asian American Short Story The Chicano-Latino Short Story The Ecological Short Story Lesbian and Gay Short Stories The Native American Short Story Non-English American Short Stories The American Working-Class Short Story American Short Stories of the Holocaust Part II. Individual Writers and Their Work Alice Adams (1926-1999) Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) James Baldwin (1924-1987) John Barth (1930- ) Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) Rick Bass (1959- ) Richard Bausch (1945- ) Charles Baxter (1947- ) Ann Beattie (1947- ) Saul Bellow (1915- ) Gina Berriault (1926- ) Doris Betts (1932- ) Paul Bowles (1910-1999) Kay Boyle (1902-1992) Ray Bradbury (1920- ) Kate Braverman (1950- ) Larry Brown (1951- ) Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) Hortense Calisher (1911- ) Truman Capote (1924-1984) Raymond Carver (1938-1988) Willa Cather (1873-1947) John Cheever (1912-1982) Sandra Cisneros (1954- ) Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909-1971) Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930- ) Robert Coover (1932- ) Lydia Davis (1947- ) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1953- ) Andre Dubus (1936-1999) Deborah Eisenberg (1946- ) Stanley Elkin (1930-1995) George P. Elliott (1918-1980) John Fante (1909-1983) James T. Farrell (1904-1979) William Faulkner (1897-1962) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Richard Ford (1944- ) Mary Gaitskill (1954- ) William H. Gass (1924- ) Ellen Gilchrist (1935- ) Herbert Gold (1924- ) Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Amy Hempel (1951- ) Mary Hood (1946- ) Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) Jamaica Kincaid (1949- ) Ring Lardner (1885-1933) David Leavitt (1961- ) Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- ) Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996) Shirley Geok-lin Lim (1944- ) Jack London (1876-1916) David Wong Louie (1954- ) Norman Mailer (1923- ) Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) Bobbie Anne Mason (1940- ) Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) Elizabeth McCracken (1966- ) Carson McCullers (1917-1967) Thomas McGuane (1939- ) James Alan McPherson (1943- ) Nicholasa Mohr (1938- ) Lorrie Moore (1957- ) Toshio Mori (1910-1980) Bharati Mukherjee (1940- ) Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) Tim O'Brien (1946- ) Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) John O'Hara (1905-1970) Tillie Olsen (1913?- ) Simon Ortiz (1941- ) Cynthia Ozick (1928- ) Grace Paley (1922- ) Americo Paredes (1915-1999) Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Jayne Anne Phillips (1952- ) Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862-1910) E. Annie Proulx (1935- ) Thomas Pynchon (1937- ) Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) Alberto Alvaro Rios (1952- ) Philip Roth (1933- ) Damon Runyon (1880-1946) J. D. Salinger (1919- ) Bienvenido N. Santos (1911-1996) William Saroyan (1908-1981) Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- ) Jean Stafford (1915-1979) Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Elizabeth Tallent (1954- ) Peter Taylor (1917-1994) James Thurber (1894-1961) John Updike (1932- ) Helena Maria Viramontes (1954- ) Anna Lee Walters (1946- ) Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) Sylvia A. Watanabe (1953- ) Eudora Welty (1909- ) Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Joy Williams (1944- ) Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Tobias Wolff (1945- ) Richard Wright (1908-1960) Hisaye Yamamoto (1921- ) Anzia Yezierska (1881-1970) Index

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