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
Famous quotes containing the word authors:
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)
“Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us and we know not where to set them right.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)