U.S. Stories. Regional Stories from the Forty-Eight States

Hendricks House — Farrar Straus, New York, 1949.
Selected with a Foreword by Martha Foley Abraham Rothberg.Delaware: The Offending Eye. Ella Middleton Tybout
Pennsylvania: The Doctor's Son. John O'Hara
New Jersey: Christ in Concrete. Pietro Di Donato
Georgia: The People Vs. Abe Lathan, Colored. Erskine Caldwell
Connecticut: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. James Thurber
Massachusetts: The Revolt of Mother. Mary Wilkins Freeman
Maryland: The Manor. Sara Haardt
South Carolina: The Half-Pint Flask. Dubose Heyward
New Hampshire: Death and Transfiguration. Alan Marshall
Virginia: That Woman. Nancy Hale
New York: Search through the Streets of the City. Irwin Shaw
North Carolina: A Tempered Fellow. Paul Green
Rhode Island: Embarkation Point. Victoria Lincoln
Vermont: The Murder on Jefferson Street. Dorothy Canfield
Kentucky: Dawn of Remembered Spring. Jesse Stuart
Tennessee: Bright and Morning Star. Richard Wright
Ohio: The Strength of God and the Teacher. Sherwood Anderson
Louisiana: Cold Death. Roark Bradford
Indiana: First Day Finish. Jessamyn West
Mississippi: That Evening Sun Go Down. William Faulkner
Illinois: How The Devil Came Down Division Street. Nelson Algren
Alabama: Alabama Sketches. Ruby Pickens Tarrt
Maine: So Clyde Was Born. Gladys Hasty Carroll
Missouri: Weed Sack. Josephine Johnson
Arkansas: A Woman Like Dilsie. David Thibault
Michigan: This Town and Salamanca. Allan Scager
Florida: Benny and the Bird-Dogs. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Texas: "— Never Said a Mumblin' Word" Vernon Loggins
Iowa: A Jury of Her Peers. Susan Glaspell
Wisconsin: The Cobweb. Zona Gale
California: The Gift. John Steinbeck
Minnesota: God Made Little Apples. Meridel Le Sueur
Oregon: The Bulldogger. James Stevens
Kansas: Kansas Afternoon. Sanora Babb
West Virginia: If Only. John Peale Bishop
Nevada: The Wind and the Snow of Winter. Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Nebraska: A Jeeter Wedding. Dorothy Thomas
Colorado: Neither Jew nor Greek. William John
South Dakota: Turkey Red. Francis Gilchrist Wood
North Dakota: A Coffin for Anna. Elise Rushfeldt
Montana: Chip off the Old Block. Wallace Stegner
Washington: Happiness. Michael Foster
Idaho: The Scarecrow. Vardis Fisher
Wyoming: Wine of Wyoming. Ernest Hemingway
Utah: Ike and Us Moons. Naomi Shumway
Oklahoma: The Happiest Man on Earth. Albert Maltz
New Mexico: Love Charm. Oliver La Farge
Arizona: Papago Kid. Mary Austin
Washington, D.C.: The Neat Mexicans. Jerome Weidman