Guide to further readingAmerican short story anthologies, and other anthologies of American literature containing short storiesBaym, Nina (ed.), The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th edn, 2 vols., New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2003
Best American Short Stories, New York: Houghton Mifflin, annually 1915 to present
Carver, Raymond, and Jenks, Tom, American Short Story Masterpieces, New York: Dell Publishing, 1987
Chan, Jeffrey Paul et al. (eds.), Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers, Washington DC: Howard University Press, 1974
Charters, Ann (ed.), The Short Story and its Writer, New York: St Martin's Press, Inc., 1983
Cochrane, James, The Penguin Book of American Short Stories, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969
Current-Garcia, Eugene (ed.), What Is the Short Story?Glenview, Ill.; Brighton: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1974
Ford, Richard (ed.), The Granta Book of the American Short Story, London: Granta Books, 1992
Gates, Henry Louis (ed.), The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004
Gioia, Dana and Gwynn, R. S. (eds.), The Longman Masters of Short Fiction, New York; London: Longman, 2002
Hughes, Langston (ed.), The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers: An Anthology from 1899 to the Present, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1967
Lauter, Paul et al. (eds.), The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 4th edn, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002
Litz, A. Walton (ed.), Major American Short Stories, 3rd edn, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993
Major, Clarence (ed.), Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Story Writers, New York: HarperPerennial, 1993
Marcus, Ben (ed.), The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, New York and Toronto: Anchor Books, 2004
McMillan, Terry, Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction, New York: Penguin Books, 1990
Oates, Joyce Carol, The Oxford Book of the American Short Story, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992
O. Henry Memorial Prize Stories, New York: Doubleday, annually 1919 to present (except 1951–2)
The Pushcart Prize Stories, Yonkers, NY: Pushcart Press, annually 1977 to present
Trafzer, Clifford (ed.), Earth Song, Sky Spirit: Short Stories of the Contemporary Native American Experience, New York: Anchor Doubleday, 1993
Wolff, Tobias (ed.), The Picador Book of Contemporary American Stories, London: Picador, 1993
Critical works on the American short storyAmmons, Elizabeth, Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992
Bone, Robert, Down Home: Origins of the Afro-American Short Story, New York: Columbia University Press, 1988
Brown, Julie (ed.), American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays, New York and London: Garland, 1995
Brown, Julie (ed.) Ethnicity and the American Short Story, New York and London: Garland, 1997
Bowen, James K. and Beets, Richard (eds.), American Short Fiction: Readings and Criticism, Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1970
Current-Garcia, Eugene, The American Short Story Before 1850: A Critical History, Boston: Twayne, 1985
Gelfant, Blanche H. (ed.), The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story, New York: Columbia University Press, 2000
Gerlach, John, Towards the End: Closure and Structure in the American Short Story, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985
Lee, A. Robert (ed.), The Nineteenth Century American Short Story, London: Vision, 1985
Levy, Andrew, The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993
Logsdon, Lauren and Mayer, Charles W., (eds.), Since Flannery O'Connor: Essays on the Contemporary American Short Story, Macomb: Western Illinois University Press, 1987
Mann, Susan Garland, The Short Story Cycle: a Genre Companion and Reference Guide, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989
McClave, Heather (ed.), Women Writers of the Short Story, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1980
Meanor, Patrick and McNicholas, Joseph (eds.), American Short Story Writers Since World War II, 4th Series, Detroit: Gale Group, 2001
Nagel, James, The Contemporary American Short Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001
O'Brien, Edward, The Advance of the American Short Story (1931), Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1977
Pattee, F. L., The Development of the American Short Story (1923), New York: Biblo & Tannen, 1975
Peden, William, The American Short Story: Front Line in the National Defence of Literature, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964
Peden, WilliamThe American Short Story: Continuity and Change, 1940–1975, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975
Ross, Danforth, The American Short Story, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1961
Stevick, Philip (ed.), The American Short Story, 1900–1945, Boston: Twayne, 1984
Tallack, Douglas, The Nineteenth Century American Short Story: Language, Form and Ideology, London and New York: Routledge, 1993
Voss, A., The American Short Story: A Critical Survey, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973
Weaver, Gordon (ed.), The American Short Story, 1945–1980, Boston: Twayne, 1983
Werlock, Abby H. P. (ed.), Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story, New York: Checkmark Books, Facts on File Inc., 2000
West, Ray B. Jnr., The Short Story in America: 1900–1950, Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1952
Yagoda, Ben, About Town: ‘The New Yorker’ and the World It Made, New York: Da Capo Press, 2001
General works on American literature containing discussions of short story writersCunliffe, Marcus (ed.), The Literature of the United States, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1987
Lawrence, D. H.American Literature to 1900, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1993
Lawrence, D. H.American Literature Since 1900, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1993
Lawrence, D. H., Studies in Classic American Literature, New York: Viking, 1973
General critical and theoretical works on the short storyBurke, Daniel, Beyond Interpretation: Studies in the Modern Short Story, New York: Whitston, 1991
Head, Dominic, The Modernist Short Story, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992
Lohafer, Susan, Coming to Terms with the Short Story, Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1983
Lohafer, Susan, and Clary, Jo Ellen, (eds.), Short Story Theory at the Crossroads, Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1989
Matthews, Brander, The Philosophy of the Short Story (1901), Philadelphia: R. West, 1977
May, Charles B. (ed.), Short Story Theories, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1976
May, Charles B. (ed.) The New Short Story Theories, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994
May, Charles B. (ed.) The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice, New York: Twayne; London: Prentice International, 1995
O'Connor, Frank, The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story (1960), Hoboken, NJ: Melville House, 2004
O'Faolain, Sean, The Short Story, London and Mercier Press, 1972
Reid, Ian, The Short Story, London and New York: Routledge, 1977
Shaw, Valerie, The Short Story: A Critical Introduction, London and New York: Longman, 1983
Bibliographies of criticism of the short storyThurston, Jarvis, Short Fiction Criticism: A Checklist of Interpretation since 1925 of Stories and Novelettes (American, British, Continental) 1800–1958, Denver: A. Swallow, 1960
Weixlmann, J., American Short Fiction: Criticism and Scholarship, 1959–1977: A Checklist, Chicago: Swallow Press, 1982
