The Best American Short Stories 2009

by Alice Sebold, Heidi Pitlor

Overview

Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best American.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780618792252
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	10/08/2009
Series:	Best American Series
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage.

Hometown:

Long Beach, California

Date of Birth:

September 6, 1963

Place of Birth:

Madison, Wisconsin

Education:

B.A., Syracuse University; studied poetry, University of Houston, 1984-85; M.F.A. in fiction, UC-Irvine, 1998