Story: The Fiction of the Forties

Whit Burnett was a writer and writing teacher who founded and edited the literary magazine Story. In the 1940s, Story was an important magazine in that it published the first or early works of many writers who went on to become major authors. Not only did Burnett prove to be a valuable literary birddog for new talent, but Story remained a respectable though low-paying (typically $25 per story) alternative for stories rejected by the large-circulation slick magazines published on glossy paper like Collier's or The Saturday Evening Post or the somewhat more prestigious and literary slick magazines such as The New Yorker. Included in this amazing volume are short, early works by such distinguished authors as Tennessee Williams, Norman Mailer, J.D. Salinger, Erskine Caldwell, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Jesse Stuart & Langston Hughes, and many more!