The Columbia companion to the twentieth-century American short story
More than 125 essays on major writers and themes, this book includes information and insight into the work of many of the finest short story writers in literary history
Electronic books
1 online resource (xiv, 660 pages)
9780231504959, 0231504950
51443994
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
Individual writers and their work
Alice Adams
Sherwood Anderson
James Baldwin
John Barth
Donald Barthelme
Rick Bass
Richard Bausch
Charles Baxter
Ann Beattie
Saul Bellow
Gina Berriault
Doris Betts
Paul Bowles
Kay Boyle
Ray Bradbury
Kate Braverman
Larry Brown
Erskine Caldwell
Hortense Calisher
Truman Capote
Raymond Carver
Willa Cather
John Cheever
Sandra Cisneros
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Robert Coover
Lydia Davis
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Andre Dubus
Deborah Eisenberg
Stanley Elkin
George P. Elliott
John Fante
James T. Farrell
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Richard Ford
Mary Gaitskill
William H. Gass
Ellen Gilchrist
Herbert Gold
Ernest Hemingway
Amy Hempel
Mary Hood
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Shirley Jackson
Jamaica Kincaid
Ring Lardner
David Leavitt
Ursula K. Le Guin
Meridel Le Sueur
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Jack London
David Wong Louie
Norman Mailer
Bernard Malamud
Bobbie Anne Mason
Mary McCarthy
Elizabeth McCracken
Carson McCullers
Thomas McGuane
James Alan McPherson
Nicholasa Mohr
Lorrie Moore
Toshio Mori
Bharati Mukherjee
Vladimir Nabokov
Joyce Carol Oates
Tim O'Brien
Flannery O'Connor
John O'Hara
Tillie Olsen
Simon Ortiz
Cynthia Ozick
Grace Paley
Américo Paredes
Dorothy Parker
Jayne Anne Phillips
Katherine Anne Porter
William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
Annie Proulx
Thomas Pynchon
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Alberto Alvaro Ríos
Philip Roth
Damon Runyon
J.D. Salinger
Bienvenido N. Santos
William Saroyan
Delmore Schwartz
Leslie Marmon Silko
Jean Stafford
Wallace Stegner
John Steinbeck
Elizabeth Tallent
Peter Taylor
James Thurber
John Updike
Helena María Viramontes
Anna Lee Walters
Robert Penn Warren
Sylvia A. Watanabe
Eudora Welty
Edith Wharton
Joy Williams
Tennessee Williams
William Carlos Williams
Tobias Wolff
Richard Wright
Hisaye Yamamoto
Anzia Yezierska