Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: A GLANCE AT THE HISTORY OF THE SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH
  • CHINUA ACHEBE (November 16, 1930)
  • AMA ATA AIDOO (March 23, 1942)
  • JESSICA ANDERSON (September 25, 1916)
  • MARGARET ELEANOR ATWOOD (November 18, 1939)
  • TONI CADE BAMBARA (March 25 1939 December 9, 1995)
  • JOHN SIMMONS BARTH (May 27, 1930)
  • DONALD BARTHELME (April 7, 1931 July 23, 1989)
  • ANN BEATTIE (September 8, 1947)
  • MORLEY CALLAGHAN (February 22, 1903 August 25, 1990)
  • ANGELA (OLIVE) CARTER (May 7, 1940 February 16, 1992)RAYMOND CARVER (May 25, 1938 August 2, 1988)
  • SANDRA CISNEROS (December 20, 1954)
  • ROBERT COOVER (February 4, 1932)
  • ANITA DESAI (June 24, 1937)
  • (KAREN) LOUISE ERDRICH (June 7, 1954)
  • RICHARD FORD (February 16, 1944)
  • JANET FRAME (August 28, 1924)
  • ERNEST J. GAINES (January 15, 1933)
  • MAVIS GALLANT (August 11, 1922)
  • NADINE GORDIMER (November 20, 1923)
  • PATRICIA GRACE (August 17, 1937)
  • GISH JEN (1955)
  • CHARLES RICHARD JOHNSON (April 23, 1948)ELIZABETH JOLLEY (June 4, 1923)
  • JAMAICA KINCAID (May 25, 1949)
  • MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (October 27, 1940)
  • DORIS LESSING (October 23, 1919)
  • BERNARD MALAMUD (April 26, 1914 March 18, 1986)
  • BOBBIE ANN MASON (May 1, 1940)
  • JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON (September 16, 1943)
  • LORRIE MOORE (January 13, 1957)
  • BHARATI MUKHERJEE (July 23, 1940)
  • ALICE MUNRO (July 10, 1931)
  • R. K. NARAYAN (October 10, 1906)
  • TIM Oâ€?BRIEN (October 1, 1946)
  • MICHAEL ONDAATJE (September 12, 1943)CYNTHIA OZICK (April 17, 1928)
  • GRACE PALEY (December 11, 1922)
  • VELMA POLLARD (1937)
  • VICTOR SAWDON PRITCHETT (December 16, 1900 March 20, 1997)
  • JEAN RHYS (August 24, 1890 May 14, 1979)
  • SALMAN RUSHDIE (June 19, 1947)
  • SAMUEL DICKSON SELVON (May 20, 1923 April 6, 1994)
  • OLIVE SENIOR (December 23, 1941)
  • LESLIE MARMON SILKO (March 5, 1948)
  • AMY TAN (February 19, 1952)
  • WILLIAM TREVOR (May 24, 1928)
  • SELECTED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX