Authors
One story from each of 55 different authors is included. The authors (and some selected story titles) are
- Roger Angell
- S. N. Behrman
- Ludwig Bemelmans
- Sally Benson
- Isabel Bolton
- Kay Boyle
- Bessie Breuer
- Hortense Calisher
- John Cheever
- Robert M. Coates
- John Collier
- Rhys Davies
- Robert Gorham Davis
- Daniel Fuchs
- Wolcott Gibbs
- Brendan Gill
- Emily Hahn
- Nancy Hale
- Shirley Jackson (The Lottery)
- Christopher LaFarge
- Oliver La Farge
- A. J. Liebling
- Victoria Lincoln
- Russell Maloney
- James A. Maxwell
- William Maxwell
- Mary McCarthy
- Carson McCullers
- Robert McLaughlin
- John McNulty
- Vladimir Nabokov (Colette)
- Edward Newhouse
- Frank O'Connor
- John O'Hara
- Mollie Panter-Downes
- James Reid Parker
- Elizabeth Parsons
- Frances Gray Patton
- Astrid Peters
- John Powell
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- John Andrews Rice
- J. D. Salinger (A Perfect Day for Bananafish)
- Mark Schorer
- Irwin Shaw
- Jean Stafford
- Peter Taylor
- James Thurber
- Niccolò Tucci
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Jermore Weidman
- Jessamyn West
- Christine Weston
- E. B. White
- Wendell Wilcox
Read more about this topic: 55 Short Stories From The New Yorker
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