The Best American Short Stories 2005

Katrina Kenison

Houghton Mifflin, 2005 - Comics & Graphic Novels - 432 pages

The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-Selling

The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.

The Best American Short Stories 2005 includes

Dennis Lehane * Tom Perrotta * Alice Munro * Edward P. Jones * Joy Williams * Joyce Carol Oates * Thomas McGuane * Kelly Link * Charles D'Ambrosio * Cory Doctorow * George Saunders * and others

Michael Chabon, guest editor, is the best-selling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, A Model World, and, most recently, The Final Solution. His novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000.

About the author

Michael Chabon was born in Washington, D.C. on May 24, 1963. He received a B.A. in English literature from the University of Pittsburgh in 1985 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in English writing at the University of California at Irvine in 1987. Chabon found success at the age of 24, when William Morrow publishing house offered him $155,000, a near-record sum, for the rights to his first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, which was his thesis in graduate school. After The Mysteries of Pittsburgh became a national bestseller, he began writing a series of short stories about a little boy dealing with his parents' divorce. The stories, which in part appeared in The New Yorker and G.Q., were bound together in 1991 into a volume titled A Model World and Other Stories. His other works include Wonder Boys, The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man, Telegraph Avenue, and Pop: Fatherhood in Pieces. In 2001 he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. He and Ayelet Waldman are co-editors of, Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation..

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Best American Short Stories 2005; Best American series
• Author: Katrina Kenison
• Editors: Michael Chabon, Katrina Kenison
• Contributor: Michael Chabon
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2005
• ISBN: 0618427058, 9780618427055
• Length: 432 pages
• Subjects: Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary; Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction / Crime; Fiction / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Noir; Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Literary Collections / American / General; Literary Collections / Essays