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 O'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 -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS.