The Granta Book of the American Short Story
Robert Penn Warren, Paul Bowles, Joyce Carol Oates, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., John Updike, Joy Williams, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Robert Coover, Grace Paley, Stuart Dybek, Harold Brodkey, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Shirley Jackson, Ann Beattie, Tobias Wolff, Richard Ford, Bernard Malamud, David Leavitt, Jamaica Kincaid, Amy Tan, Donald Barthelme, Tim O'Brien, Lorrie Moore, Richard Bausch, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Barry Hannah, James Salter, Jean Stafford, Leonard Michaels, Jayne Anne Phillips, William H. Gass, Richard Yeats, Max Apple, Peter Taylor, William Kotzwinkle, Gayl Jones, Mary Robison, Stanley Elkin, Jane Bowles, James Alan McPherson, Wallace Stegner