The Best American Short Stories 1994
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The Best American Short Stories 1994, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor Tobias Wolff
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Tobias Wolff
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American author. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life , and his short stories. He has also written two novels.-Biography:Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama...
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Short stories included
| Author | Story | Source |
| Sherman Alexie Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. is a writer, poet, filmmaker, and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American. Two of Alexie's best known works are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven , a book of short stories and Smoke Signals, a film... |
"This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" | Esquire Esquire (magazine) Esquire is a men's magazine, published in the U.S. by the Hearst Corporation. Founded in 1932, it flourished during the Great Depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich.-History:... |
| Carol Anshaw Carol Anshaw Carol Anshaw is an American novelist and short story writer. Her books include Lucky in the Corner, Seven Moves and Aquamarine. Her stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories in 1994 and 1998. She acquired her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts... |
"Hammam" | Story |
| Robert Olen Butler Robert Olen Butler Robert Olen Butler is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993.-Early life:... |
"Samel" | Mississippi Review |
| Lan Samantha Chang Lan Samantha Chang Lan Samantha Chang , born 1965, is an American writer of novels and short stories. She is Professor of English at the University of Iowa and Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop- Life and career :... |
"Pipa's Story" | The Atlantic Monthly The Atlantic Monthly The Atlantic is an American magazine founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857. It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine. It quickly achieved a national reputation, which it held for more than a century. It was important for recognizing and publishing new writers and poets,... |
| Ann Cummings | "Where I Work" | Room of One's Own |
| Alice Elliott Dark Alice Elliott Dark Alice Elliott Dark is a modern short story author and novelist. She is the author of two story collections, Naked to the Waist and In the Gloaming, and one novel Think of England.-Early life and education:... |
"In the Gloaming" | The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... |
| Stuart Dybek Stuart Dybek -Personal life:Dybek was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dybek graduated from St. Rita of Cascia High School in 1959... |
"We Didn't" | Antaeus |
| Tony Earley Tony Earley Tony Earley is an American novelist and short story writer. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, but grew up in North Carolina. His stories are often set in North Carolina.... |
"The Prophet from Jupiter" | Harper's Magazine Harper's Magazine Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts, with a generally left-wing perspective. It is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. . The current editor is Ellen Rosenbush, who replaced Roger Hodge in January 2010... |
| Carolyn Ferrell Carolyn Ferrell -Life:She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and City College of New York with an MA.She has lived, worked, and studied in West Berlin, Manhattan, and the South Bronx.She is married to and has children with psychology professor Linwood Lewis... |
"Proper Library" | Ploughshares Ploughshares Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston... |
| John Rolfe Gardiner | "The Voyage Out" | The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... |
| David Gates David Gates David Gates is an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame... |
"The Mail Lady" | Grand Street Grand Street Grand Street was an American magazine which appeared from 1981 to 2004. It was described by the New York Times as "one of the most revered literary magazines of the postwar era."-Founding:... |
| Barry Hannah Barry Hannah Howard Barry Hannah was an American novelist and short story writer from Mississippi.The author of eight novels and five short story collections , Hannah worked with notable American editors and publishers such as Gordon Lish, Seymour Lawrence, and Morgan Entrekin... |
"Nicodemus Bluff" | The Carolina Quarterly |
| Thom Jones Thom Jones Thom Jones is an American writer, primarily of short stories.-Biography:Jones was raised in Aurora, Illinois, and attended the University of Hawaii, where he played catcher on the baseball team... |
"Cold Snap" | The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... |
| John Keeble John Keeble John Keeble is a British pop musician, who is the drummer with the 1980s band, Spandau Ballet.Spandau Ballet disbanded in 1990, after their final studio album, Heart Like a Sky, failed to live up to the critical and commercial success of their earlier albums, such as True and Parade.In 1999, John... |
"The Chasm" | Prairie Schooner |
| Nancy Krusoe | "Landscape and Dream" | The Georgia Review The Georgia Review The Georgia Review is an award-winning, nationally respected literary journal founded in 1947 that includes poetry, art, fiction, essays and reviews. It won the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 1986 and the National Magazine Award for Essay in 2007... |
| Laura Glen Louis | "Fur" | Ploughshares Ploughshares Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston... |
| Chris Offutt Chris Offutt Christopher John "Chris" Offutt is an American writer.The son of author Andrew J. Offutt, Chris Offutt grew up in a small former mining community in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Kentucky. He quit high school to join the army, but failed the physical... |
"Melungeons" | Story |
| Roxana Robinson | "Mr. Sumarsono" | The Atlantic Monthly The Atlantic Monthly The Atlantic is an American magazine founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857. It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine. It quickly achieved a national reputation, which it held for more than a century. It was important for recognizing and publishing new writers and poets,... |
| Jim Shepard Jim Shepard Jim Shepard is an American author and professor of creative writing and film at Williams College.-Biography:Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He received a B.A. at Trinity College in 1978, his MFA from Brown University in 1980. He currently teaches creative writing and film at Williams... |
"Battling Against Castro" | The Paris Review |
| Christopher Tilghman Christopher Tilghman -Life:He graduated from Yale University. He served 3 years in the Navy.He worked at a sawmill in New Hampshire, moved back to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a corporate copywriter and journalist... |
"Things Left Undone" | The Southern Review |
| Jonathan Wilson Jonathan Wilson (author) Jonathan Wilson is a British-born writer and professor who lives in Newton, Massachusetts.He is currently the Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate as well as the Director of the Center for Humanities at Tufts University. Within the English Department at Tufts, he teaches courses on Creative... |
"From Shanghai" | Ploughshares Ploughshares Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston... |