Birch Lane Press Presents American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers. Number 3

Michael C. White, Alan R. Davis

Carol Publishing Group, 1992 - Fiction - 299 pages

Contents

• Between Revolutions Holiday 1982: 17
• Bookends: 43
• Thunderbird: 56

About the author

Michael C. White is a professor of English, as well as, the founder and director of the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program at Fairfield University. He is the founding editor of the annual fiction anthology American Fiction, as well as Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose. In addition to a collection of shorts stories, entitled Marked Men, White has written numerous novels. They include: The Garden of Martyrs, A Brother's Blood, Beautiful Assassin, Soul Catcher, A Dream of Wolves and The Blind Side of the Heart. Tobias Wolff was born in Birmingham, Alabama on June 19, 1945. He served in the military as a paratrooper during the Vietnam War. He received a B.A. in 1972 and a M.A. in 1975 from the University of Oxford and a M.A. in 1978 from Stanford University. He held faculty positions at Stanford University, Goddard College, Arizona State University, and Syracuse University. He was also a reporter for the Washington Post. His first collection of short stories, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, won the St. Lawrence award for fiction in 1982. His other works include Back in the World, In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of a Lost War, The Night in Question, Old School, and Our Story Begins. The Barracks Thief won the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 1985. This Boy's Life: A Memoir won the Los Angeles Times Book prize in 1989 and was made into a 1993 film starring Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. He also won three O. Henry Awards in 1980, 1981, and 1985 and the National Medal of Arts in 2015. He edited several anthologies of short stories including Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories, A Doctor's Visit: Short Stories by Anton Chekhov, and The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Birch Lane Press Presents American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers. Number 3; Issue 3 of Best unpublished short stories by emerging writiers; Volume 3 of Birch Lane Press Presents American Fiction Series
• Editors: Michael C. White, Alan R. Davis
• Contributor: Tobias Wolff
• Publisher: Carol Publishing Group, 1992
• ISBN: 1559721219, 9781559721219
• Length: 299 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction / Short Stories (single author)