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