Books like Great American Short Stories.

Inspired by William Faulkner, John O'Hara, Mary Stegner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Hortense Calisher, Stephen Crane, James Thurber, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Hamlin Garland, Bret Harte, Katherine Anne Porter, Paul Horgan, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Washington Irving, O. Henry, Wilbur Daniel Steele, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stegner, William March, Ambrose Bierce, Conrad Aiken, Mary (editor) Stegner

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