This is a collection of forty-seven stories that first appeared in The New Yorker during the decade beginning in 1950. The list of contributors reads like a who's who of mid-twentieth century literary giants -- from Saul Bellow to Vladimir Nabokov. Dorothy Parker, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger, John Updike and Tennessee Williams.
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry published by Condé Nast Publications. Starting as a weekly in the mid-1920s, the magazine is now published forty-seven times per year, with five of these issues covering two-week spans.