An outstanding collection chronicling the growth of the american short story from humorous legend to powerful contempory fiction.
Contributors include:
Washington Irving - Herman Melville - Mark Twain - William Faulkner - John Steinbeck - Eudaro Welty - AND MORE
Author: Wallace Stegner
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dell
Published: 10/01/1985
Pages: 511
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 6.76h x 4.18w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780440330608
About the AuthorWallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels,
All the Little Live Things (winner of a Commonwealth Club Gold Medal),
Angle of Repose (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and
The Spectator Bird (winner of the National Book Award). His nonfiction includes
The Sound of Mountain Water,
The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, and
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West. Three of his short stories won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the
Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.
Mary Stegner was the wife of Wallace Stegner and his constant assistant, as well as a violinist with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra. She was Wallace's coeditor for
Great American Short Stories and wrote the afterword for his book
Remembering Laughter. She died in 2010.