Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) -- Kay Boyle (1902- ) -- Roark Bradford (1896-1948) -- Louis Bromfield (1896-1956) -- Maxwell Struthers Burt (1882-1954) -- Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) -- Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944) -- James T. Farrell (1904-1979) -- Edna Ferber (1885-1968) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) -- Nancy Hale (1908-1988) -- Ben Hecht (1894-1964) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Fannie Hurst (1889-1968) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960) -- Ring Lardner (1885-1933) -- William March (William Edward Campbell) (1893-1954) -- John O'Hara (1905-1970) -- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- Damon Runyon (1880-1946) -William Saroyan (1908-1981) -- Wilbur Daniel Steele (1886-1970) -- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) -- Arthur Train (1875-1946) -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Summary
Essays on American short-story writers published in the years between 1910 and the end of World War II, with a primary focus on the growth and popularity of works of fiction
Notes
"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-318) and index