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| Introduction | |
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| Thematic Essays | |
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| The American Short Story Cycle | |
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| The American Short Story, 1807-1900 | |
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| The African American Short Story | |
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| The Asian American Short Story | |
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| The Chicano-Latino Short Story | |
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| The Ecological Short Story | |
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| Lesbian and Gay Short Stories | |
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| The Native American Short Story | |
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| Non-English American Short Stories | |
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| The American Working-Class Short Story | |
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| American Short Stories of the Holocaust | |
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| Individual Writers and Their Work | |
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| Alice Adams (1926-1999) | |
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| Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) | |
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| James Baldwin (1924-1987) | |
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| John Barth (1930- ) | |
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| Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) | |
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| Rick Bass (1959- ) | |
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| Richard Bausch (1945- ) | |
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| Charles Baxter (1947- ) | |
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| Ann Beattie (1947- ) | |
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| Saul Bellow (1915- ) | |
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| Gina Berriault (1926- ) | |
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| Doris Betts (1932- ) | |
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| Paul Bowles (1910-1999) | |
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| Kay Boyle (1902-1992) | |
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| Ray Bradbury (1920- ) | |
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| Kate Braverman (1950- ) | |
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| Larry Brown (1951- ) | |
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| Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) | |
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| Hortense Calisher (1911- ) | |
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| Truman Capote (1924-1984) | |
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| Raymond Carver (1938-1988) | |
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| Willa Cather (1873-1947) | |
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| John Cheever (1912-1982) | |
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| Sandra Cisneros (1954- ) | |
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| Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909-1971) | |
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| Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930- ) | |
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| Robert Coover (1932- ) | |
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| Lydia Davis (1947- ) | |
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| Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1953- ) | |
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| Andre Dubus (1936-1999) | |
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| Deborah Eisenberg (1946- ) | |
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| Stanley Elkin (1930-1995) | |
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| George P. Elliott (1918-1980) | |
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| John Fante (1909-1983) | |
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| James T. Farrell (1904-1979) | |
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| William Faulkner (1897-1962) | |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) | |
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| Richard Ford (1944- ) | |
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| Mary Gaitskill (1954- ) | |
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| William H. Gass (1924- ) | |
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| Ellen Gilchrist (1935- ) | |
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| Herbert Gold (1924- ) | |
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| Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) | |
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| Amy Hempel (1951- ) | |
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| Mary Hood (1946- ) | |
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| Langston Hughes (1902-1967) | |
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| Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) | |
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| Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) | |
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| Jamaica Kincaid (1949- ) | |
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| Ring Lardner (1885-1933) | |
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| David Leavitt (1961- ) | |
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| Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- ) | |
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| Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996) | |
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| Shirley Geok-lin Lim (1944- ) | |
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| Jack London (1876-1916) | |
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| David Wong Louie (1954- ) | |
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| Norman Mailer (1923- ) | |
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| Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) | |
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| Bobbie Anne Mason (1940- ) | |
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| Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) | |
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| Elizabeth McCracken (1966- ) | |
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| Carson McCullers (1917-1967) | |
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| Thomas McGuane (1939- ) | |
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| James Alan McPherson (1943- ) | |
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| Nicholasa Mohr (1938- ) | |
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| Lorrie Moore (1957- ) | |
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| Toshio Mori (1910-1980) | |
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| Bharati Mukherjee (1940- ) | |
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| Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) | |
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| Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) | |
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| Tim O'Brien (1946- ) | |
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| Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) | |
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| John O'Hara (1905-1970) | |
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| Tillie Olsen (1913?- ) | |
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| Simon Ortiz (1941- ) | |
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| Cynthia Ozick (1928- ) | |
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| Grace Paley (1922- ) | |
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| Americo Paredes (1915-1999) | |
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| Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) | |
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| Jayne Anne Phillips (1952- ) | |
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| Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) | |
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| William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862-1910) | |
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| Annie Proulx (1935- ) | |
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| Thomas Pynchon (1937- ) | |
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| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) | |
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| Alberto Alvaro Rios (1952- ) | |
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| Philip Roth (1933- ) | |
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| Damon Runyon (1880-1946) | |
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| J. D. Salinger (1919- ) | |
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| Bienvenido N. Santos (1911-1996) | |
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| William Saroyan (1908-1981) | |
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| Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) | |
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| Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- ) | |
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| Jean Stafford (1915-1979) | |
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| Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) | |
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| John Steinbeck (1902-1968) | |
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| Elizabeth Tallent (1954- ) | |
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| Peter Taylor (1917-1994) | |
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| James Thurber (1894-1961) | |
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| John Updike (1932- ) | |
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| Helena Maria Viramontes (1954- ) | |
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| Anna Lee Walters (1946- ) | |
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| Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) | |
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| Sylvia A. Watanabe (1953- ) | |
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| Eudora Welty (1909- ) | |
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| Edith Wharton (1862-1937) | |
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| Joy Williams (1944- ) | |
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| Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) | |
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| William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) | |
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| Tobias Wolff (1945- ) | |
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| Richard Wright (1908-1960) | |
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| Hisaye Yamamoto (1921- ) | |
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| Anzia Yezierska (1881-1970) | |
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| Index | |