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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

Edited by Blanche H. Gelfant

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Paper, 952 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11099-0
$30.00 / £20.50

vol. 1 and 2
March, 2001
Cloth, 952 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11098-3
$99.50 / £68.50

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- )

Américo 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 Ríos (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 María 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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About the Author

Blanche H. Gelfant is the author of The American City Novel, Women Writing in America: Voices in Collage, and Cross-Cultural Reckonings: A Triptych of Russian, American and Canadian Texts. For many years she was the Robert E. Maxwell Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth. In recognition of her contributions as critic and scholar, the American Literature Division of the Modern Language Association has honored professor Gelfant with the Jay B. Hubbell Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies.

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