The Best American Short Stories 1943
| Editor | Martha Foley |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 9789997371249 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1942 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1944 |
The Best American Short Stories 1943 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.[1]
Background
The series is considered one of the "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction"[2] and has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature.[3][4][5]
In particular, the Willa Cather Review wrote that The Best American Short Stories series "became a repository of values" for creative writing programs, college libraries, and literary magazines.[6] The Los Angeles Times, reflecting on the hundred-year anniversary of the series, noted that it eventually became an "institution" itself, often being taught in classrooms.[7]
Short stories included
| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Vicki Baum | "This Healthy Life" | Story |
| Warren Beck | "Boundary Line" | Rocky Mountain Review |
| Kay Boyle | "Frenchman's Ship" | The Saturday Evening Post |
| John Cheever | "The Pleasures of Solitude" | The New Yorker |
| Guido D'Agostino | "The Dream of Angelo Zara" | Story |
| Murray Dyer | "Samuel Blane" | Harper's Magazine |
| William Faulkner | "The Bear" | The Saturday Evening Post |
| Rachel Field | "Beginning of Wisdom" | American Magazine |
| Vardis Fisher | "A Partnership With Death" | Rocky Mountain Review |
| Grace Flandrau | "What Do You See, Dear Enid?" | The New Yorker |
| Robert Gibbons | "Time's End" | Atlantic Monthly |
| Peter Gray | "Threnody for Stelios" | Virginia Quarterly Review |
| Nancy Hale | "Who Lived and Died Believing" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Paul Horgan | "The Peach Stone" | Yale Review |
| Laurette MacDuffie Knight | "The Enchanted" | Story |
| Clara Laidlaw | "The Little Black Boys" | Atlantic Monthly |
| Mary Lavin | "Love Is For Lovers" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Edita Morris | "Young Man in an Astrakhan Cap" | Harper's Bazaar |
| William Saroyan | "Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing At All in the World" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Delmore Schwartz | "An Argument in 1934" | The Kenyon Review |
| Irwin Shaw | "Preach on the Dusty Roads" | The New Yorker |
| Margaret Shedd | "My Public" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Wallace Stegner | "Chip Off the Old Block" | Virginia Quarterly Review |
| Alison Stuart | "Death and My Uncle Felix" | Mademoiselle |
| Jesse Stuart | "Dawn of Remembered Spring" | Harper's Bazaar |
| Richard Sullivan | "The Women" | Accent |
| James Thurber | "The Catbird Seat" | The New Yorker |
| Jessie Treichler | "Homecoming" | The Antioch Review |
| Jerome Weidman | "Philadelphia Express" | The New Yorker |
| Eudora Welty | "Asphodel" | Yale Review |
References
- ^ Foley, Martha, ed. (January 1, 1943). The Best American Short Stories 1943. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- ^ "Short and Sweet" by Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 11/05/99, issue 511, page 73.
- ^ "The Best American Short Stories of the Century," Publishers Weekly, 3/8/1999, volume 246, issue 10, page 47.
- ^ Hempel, Amy (1986-02-09). "The Best American Short Stories 1985 : edited by Gail Godwin with Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95, hardcover; $8.95, paperback; 300 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
- ^ "Best Stories of the Century? Not Quite, but Close Enough". Observer. 1999-05-10. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
- ^ "'Long-Cellared Wine': 'Double Birthday,' Edward J. H. O'Brien, and the Best American Short Stories Series" by Timothy W. Bintrim and Scott Riner, Willa Cather Review, spring 2023, volume 64, issue 1, page 18.
- ^ "Review: '100 Years of Best American Short Stories' is vital yet flawed for loading the canon". Los Angeles Times. 2015-10-09. Retrieved 2025-04-10.