R. V. Cassill the original editor of The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction , taught creative writing at the Iowa Writer�s Workshop and at Brown, Purdue, Columbia, and Harvard. He was the author of more than thirty books of fiction, including the novels Clem Anderson , Dr. Cobb�s Game , and After Goliath . Cassil�s Collected Stories was published in 1989. He died in Rhode Island in 2002.