Carson McCullers (1917 –1967)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Thematic Essays
6. The American Short Story Cycle 9
7. The American Short Story, 1807–1900 15
8. The African American Short Story 25
9. The Asian American Short Story 34
10. The Chicano-Latino Short Story 42
11. The Ecological Short Story 50
12. Lesbian and Gay Short Stories 56
13. The Native American Short Story 64
14. Non-English American Short Stories 72
15. The American Working-Class Short Story 81
16. American Short Stories of the Holocaust 94
17. Part II. Individual Writers and Their Work
18. Alice Adams (1926–1999) 105
19. Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) 109
20. James Baldwin (1924–1987) 114
21. John Barth (1930– ) 117
22. Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) 121
23. Rick Bass (1959– ) 127
24. Richard Bausch (1945– ) 130
25. Charles Baxter (1947– ) 135
26. Ann Beattie (1947– ) 138
27. Saul Bellow (1915– ) 144
28. Gina Berriault (1926– ) 149
29. Doris Betts (1932– ) 152
30. Paul Bowles (1910–1999) 154
31. Kay Boyle (1902–1992) 158
32. Ray Bradbury (1920– ) 162
33. Kate Braverman (1950– ) 166
34. Larry Brown (1951– ) 172
35. Erskine Caldwell 175
36. Hortense Calisher (1911– ) 180
37. Truman Capote (1924–1984) 184
38. Raymond Carver (1938–1988) 188
39. Willa Cather (1873–1974) 193
40. John Cheever (1912–1982) 199
41. Sandra Cisneros (1954– ) 205
42. Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909–1971) 209
43. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930– ) 211
44. Robert Coover (1932– ) 215
45. Lydia Davis (1947– ) 219
46. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1953– ) 223
47. Andre Dubus (1936–1999) 226
48. Deborah Eisenberg (1946– ) 234
49. Stanley Elkin (1930–1995) 239
50. George P. Elliott (1918–1980) 242
51. John Fante (1909–1983) 245
52. James T. Farrell (1904–1979) 248
53. William Faulkner (1897 –1962) 251
54. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 –1940) 258
55. Richard Ford (1944 – ) 264
56. Mary Gaitskill (1954 – ) 268
57. William H. Gass (1924 – ) 272
58. Ellen Gilchrist (1935 – ) 276
59. Herbert Gold (1924 – ) 282
60. Ernest Hemingway (1899 –1961) 286
61. Amy Hempel (1951 – ) 293
62. Mary Hood (1946 – ) 297
63. Langston Hughes (1902 –1967) 300
64. Zora Neale Hurston (1891 –1960) 305
65. Shirley Jackson (1916 –1965) 310
66. Jamaica Kincaid (1949 – ) 314
67. Ring Lardner (1885 –1933) 319
68. David Leavitt (1961 – ) 325
69. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 – ) 329
70. Meridel Le Sueur (1900 –1996) 333
71. Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (1944 – ) 337
72. Jack London (1876 –1916) 341
73. David Wong Louie (1954 – ) 345
74. Norman Mailer (1923 – ) 349
75. Bernard Malamud (1914 –1986) 353
76. Bobbie Anne Mason (1940 – ) 358
77. Mary McCarthy (1912 –1989) 361
78. Elizabeth McCracken (1966 – ) 366
79. Carson McCullers (1917 –1967) 369
80. Thomas McGuane (1939 – ) 373
81. James Alan McPherson (1943 – ) 377
82. Nicholasa Mohr (1938 – ) 380
83. Lorrie Moore (1957 – ) 384
84. Toshio Mori (1910 –1980) 390
85. Bharati Mukherjee (1940 – ) 394
86. Vladimir Nabokov (1899 –1977) 399
87. Joyce Carol Oates (1938 – ) 403
88. Tim O’Brien (1946 – ) 409
89. Flannery O’Connor (1925 –1964) 413
90. John O’Hara (1905 –1970) 420
91. Tillie Olsen (1913?– ) 423
92. Simon Ortiz (1941 – ) 430
93. Cynthia Ozick (1928 – ) 433
94. Grace Paley (1922 – ) 439
95. Américo Paredes (1915 –1999) 444
96. Dorothy Parker (1893 –1967) 447
97. Jayne Anne Phillips (1952 – ) 452
98. Katherine Anne Porter (1890 –1980) 456
99. William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862 – 1910) 462
100. Annie Proulx (1935 – ) 468
101. Thomas Pynchon (1937 – ) 476
102. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896 –1953) 480
103. Alberto Alvaro Ríos (1952 – ) 483
104. Philip Roth (1933 – ) 487
105. Damon Runyon (1880 –1946) 490
106. J. D. Salinger (1919– ) 494
107. Bienvenido N. Santos (1911 –1996) 501
108. William Saroyan (1908 –1981) 504
109. Delmore Schwartz (1913 –1966) 508
110. Leslie Marmon Silko (1948 – ) 512
111. Jean Stafford (1915 –1979) 515
112. Wallace Stegner (1909 –1993) 519
113. John Steinbeck (1902 –1968) 523
114. Elizabeth Tallent (1954 – ) 526
115. Peter Taylor (1917 –1994) 530
116. James Thurber (1894 –1961) 536
117. John Updike (1932 – ) 540
118. Helena María Viramontes (1954 – ) 547
119. Anna Lee Walters (1946 – ) 549
120. Robert Penn Warren (1905 –1989) 554
121. Sylvia A. Watanabe (1953 – ) 556
122. Eudora Welty (1909 – ) 560
123. Edith Wharton (1862 –1937) 569
124. Joy Williams (1944 – ) 573
125. Tennessee Williams (1911 –1983) 579
126. William Carlos Williams (1883 –1963) 582
127. Tobias Wolff (1945 – ) 586
128. Richard Wright (1908 –1960) 591
129. Hisaye Yamamoto (1921 – ) 596
130. Anzia Yezierska (1881 –1970) 600
131. Index 605