Moderns and Contemporaries: Nine Masters of the Short Story

by Jonathan Baumbach

422 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Born in Brooklyn, New York on July 5, 1933. Married Annette Grant (fourth wife) on Dec. 18, 2004. Former wives: Naomi Miller, Elinor Berkman, Georgia Brown. Children: David, Nina, Noah and Nico. A.B (English) Brooklyn College, MFA (Playwriting) Columbia University, Ph.D (English and American Lit), Stanford University. Fellowships include Guggenheim, National Endowment of the Arts, Merrill. Invented in 1973 (with Peter Spielberg) Fiction Collective, the first fiction writers cooperative in America; reinvented in 1988 as FC2. An unintentionally well-kept secret among contemporary American novelists. Author of 14 books of fiction

Reviews

[Farah · Rating 5 out of 5]

wonderful collection of twenty-three short stories by nine writers offering a spectrum of styles and visions. literary masters include Chekhov, Kafka, Conrad, Joyce, O'Connor, Malamud, Taylor, Faulkner, and Lawrence.