Rosenblatt, Benjamin, (1880-?)
--Zelig, 1915. (The Bellman, 1915.)
Lerner, Mary, (?-?)
--Little Selves, 1916. (The Atlantic Monthly, 1916.)
Glaspell, Susan, (1882-1948)
--A Jury of Her Peers, 1917. (Every Week, 1917.)
Anderson, Sherwood, (1876-1941)
--The Other Woman, 1920. (The Little Review, 1920.)
Lardner, Ring, (1885-1933)
--The Golden Honeymoon, 1922. (The Cosmopolitan, 1922.)
Toomer, Jean, (1894-1967)
--Blood-Burning Moon, 1923. (Prairie, 1923.)
Hemingway, Ernest, (1899-1961)
--The Killers, 1927. * (Scribner's Magazine, 1927.)
Cather, Willa, (1876-1947)
--Double Birthday, 1929. (The Forum, 1929.)
Coates, Grace Stone, (1881-1976)
--Wild Plums, 1929. (short short) (The Frontier, 1929.)
Porter, Katherine Anne, (1890-1980)
--Theft, 1930. (The Gyroscope, 1930.)
Faulkner, William, (1897-1962)
--That Evening Sun Go Down, 1931. (The American Mercury, 1931.)
Parker, Dorothy, (1893-1967)
--Here We Are, 1931. (Cosmopolitan, 1931.)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (1896-1940)
--Crazy Sunday, 1933. (The American Mercury, 1933.)
Godin, Alexander, (1909-?)
--My Dead Brother Comes to America, 1934.
Saroyan, William, (1908-1981)
--Resurrection of a Life, 1935. (Story, 1935.)
Warren, Robert Penn, (1905-1989)
--Christmas Gift, 1938. (The Virginia Quarterly Review, 1938.)
Wright, Richard, (1908-1960)
--Bright and Morning Star, 1939. (New Masses, 1939.)
Welty, Eudora, (1909- )
--The Hitch-Hikers, 1940. (The Southern Review, 1940.)
Horgan, Paul, (1903-1995)
--The Peach Stone, 1943. (The Yale Review, 1943.)
Nabokov, Vladimir, (1899-1977)
--"That in Aleppo Once ...," 1944. (The Atlantic Monthly, 1944.)
Stafford, Jean, (1915-1979)
--The Interior Castle, 1947. (Partisan Review, 1947.)
Gellhorn, Martha, (1908-1998)
--Miami-New York, 1948. (The Atlantic Monthly, 1948.)
White, E. B., (1899-1985)
--The Second Tree from the Corner, 1948. (short short) (The New Yorker, 1948.)
Bishop, Elizabeth, (1911-1979)
--The Farmer's Children, 1949. (Harper's Bazaar, 1949.)
Powers, J. F., (1917- )
--Death of a Favorite, 1951. (The New Yorker, 1951.)
Williams, Tennessee, (1911-1983)
--The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin, 1951. (The New Yorker, 1951.)
Cheever, John, (1912-1982)
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O'Connor, Flannery, (1925-1964)
--Greenleaf, 1957. (The Kenyon Review, 1957.)
Hall, Lawrence Sargent, (1915-1993)
--The Ledge, 1960. (The Hudson review, 1960.)
Roth, Philip, (1933- )
--Defender of the Faith, 1960. * (The New Yorker, 1960.)
Elkin, Stanley, (1930-1995)
--Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers, 1962. (Perspective, 1962.)
Malamud, Bernard, (1914-1986)
--The German Refugee, 1964. (The Saturday Evening Post, 1964.)
Oates, Joyce Carol, (1938- )
--Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 1967. (Epoch, 1967.)
Gavell, Mary Ladd, (1919-1967)
--The Rotifer, 1968. (Psychiatry, 1968.)
McPherson, James Alan, (1943- )
--Gold Coast, 1969. (The Atlantic Monthly, 1969.)
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, (1904-1991)
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Barthelme, Donald, (1931-1989)
--A City of Churches, 1973. (short short) (The New Yorker, 1973.)
Brown, Rosellen, (1939- )
--How to Win, 1975. (The Massachusetts Review, 1975.)
Adams, Alice, (1926- )
--Roses, Rhododendron, 1976. (The New Yorker, 1976.)
Brodkey, Harold, (1930-1996)
--Verona: A Young Woman Speaks, 1977. (Esquire, July, 1977.)
Bellow, Saul, (1915- )
--A Silver Dish, 1979. (The New Yorker, 1979.)
Updike, John, (1932- )
--Gesturing, 1980. (Playboy, 1980.)
Ozick, Cynthia, (1928- )
--The Shawl, 1981. * (short short) (The New Yorker, 1981.)
Carver, Raymond, (1938-1988)
--Where I'm Calling From, 1983. * (The New Yorker, 1983.)
Beattie, Ann, (1947- )
--Janus, 1986. (short short) (The New Yorker, 1986.)
Sontag, Susan, (1933- )
--The Way We Live Now, 1987. (The New Yorker, 1987.)
O'Brien, Tim, (1946- )
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Munro, Alice, (1931- )
--Meneseteung, 1989. (The New Yorker, 1989.)
Moore, Lorrie,(1957- )
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Jones, Thom, (1945- )
--I Want to Live! 1993. (Harper's Magazine, 1993.)
Dark, Alice Elliott, (1953- )
--In the Gloaming, 1994. (The New Yorker, 1994.)
Ferrell, Carolyn, (1962- )
--Proper Library, 1994. (Ploughshares, 1994.)
Jen, Gish, (1956- )
--Birthmates, 1995. (Ploughshares, 1995.)
Durban, Pam, (1947- )
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Proulx, Annie, (1935- )
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