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The Best Short Stories of 1920 18
The Bibliographical Roll of Honor of American Short Stories
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OCTOBER, 1919, TO SEPTEMBER, 1920
#Note.# Only stories by American authors are listed. The best stories are indicated by an asterisk before the title of the story. The index figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 prefixed to the name of the author indicate that his work has been included in the Rolls of Honor for 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1919 respectively. The list excludes reprints.
(56) #Abdullah, Achmed# (for biography, see 1918).
Evening Rice.
#Aitken, Kenneth Lyndwode.# Born at Hamilton, Ont., Canada, July 13, 1881. Education: N. Y. Public Schools and Ridley College, Ont. Profession: Electrical Engineer. Was Manager, City Electric Plant, Toronto, for four years. Chief interests: writing and photography. First story: "Height o' Land," Canadian Magazine, 1904. Died in California Dec. 5, 1919.
From the Admiralty Files.
#Anderson, C. Farley.#
Octogenarian.
#Anderson, Jane.#
Happiest Man in the World.
(3456) #Anderson, Sherwood# (for biography, see 1917).
*Door of the Trap.
*I Want to Know Why.
*Other Woman.
*Triumph of the Egg.
#Anderton, Daisy.# Born in Bedford, Ohio. High School education. First story: "Emmy's Solution," Pagan, Feb., 1919. Author of "Cousin Sadie," a novel, 1920. Lives in Bedford, Ohio.
Belated Girlhood.
(3456) #Babcock, Edwina Stanton# (for biography, see 1917).
*Gargoyle.
(6) #Barnes, Djuna# (for biography, see 1919).
*Beyond the End.
*Mother.
#Benét, Stephen Vincent.# Born in Bethlehem, Pa., July 22, 1898. Education: Yale University, M. A. Chief interests: "Reading and writing poetry, playing and watching tennis, swimming without any participial qualification, and walking around between this and the other side of Paradise with a verse in one hand and a brick for my elders in the other like the rest of the incipient generation." First story: "Funeral of Mr. Bixby," Munsey's Magazine, July, 1920. Author of "Five Men and Pompey," 1915; "Young Adventure," 1918; "Heavens and Earth," 1920.
Summer Thunder.
#Bercovici, Konrad.# Born June 23, 1882. Dobrudgea, Rumania. Educated there and in the streets of Paris. "In other cities it was completed as far as humanly possible." Profession: organist. Chief interests: people, horses, and gardens. First short story printed at the age of twelve in a Rumanian magazine. Author of "Crimes of Charity" and "Dust of New York." Lives in New York City.
*Ghitza.
#Boulton, Agnes.# Born in London, England, Sept. 19, 1893, of American parents. Lived as a child near Barnegat Bay, N. J. Educated at home. First story published in the Black Cat. Married Eugene O'Neill, the playwright, 1918. Lives in Provincetown, Mass.
Hater of Mediocrity.
(2346) #Brown, Alice# (for biography, see 1917).
*Old Lemuel's Journey.
(56) #Brownell, Agnes Mary# (for biography, see 1918).
*Buttermilk.
Quest.
Relation.
#Bryner, Edna Clare.# Born in Tylersburg, Penn., and spent her childhood in the lumbering region of that state. Graduate of Vassar College. Has been engaged in teaching, statistical work, reform school work, and eugenic, educational, and housing research. Chief interests: Music and friends in the winter; Adirondack trails in the summer. First story: "Life of Five Points," Dial, Sept., 1920. Lives in New York City.
*Life of Five Points.
(1456) #Burt, Maxwell Struthers# (for biography, see 1917).
*Dream or Two.
*Each in His Generation.
*When His Ships Came In.
(56) #Cabell, James Branch# (for biography, see 1918).
*Designs of Miramon.
*Feathers of Olrun.
*Hair of Melicent.
*Head of Misery.
*Hour of Freydis.
#Camp, (Charles) Wadsworth.# Born in Philadelphia, Oct. 18, 1879. Graduate of Princeton University, 1902. Married, 1916. On staff of N. Y. Evening Sun, 1902-5; sub-editor McClure's Magazine, 1905-6; editor of The Metropolitan, 1906-9; European correspondent, Collier's Weekly, 1916. Author: "Sinister Island," 1915; "The House of Fear," 1916; "War's Dark Frame," 1917; "The Abandoned Room," 1917; etc. Lives in New York City.
*Signal Tower.
#Carnevali, Emanuel.#
Tales of a Hurried Man. I.
#Chapman, Edith.#
Classical Case.
(2345) #Cobb, Irvin S.# (for biography, see 1917).
Story That Ends Twice.
#Corley, Donald.#
*Daimyo's Bowl.
(6) #Cram, Mildred# (for biography, see 1919).
*Odell.
Spring of Cold Water.
Wind.
#Crew, Helen Coale.# Born in Baltimore, Md., 1866. Graduate of Bryn Mawr College, 1889. First short story, "The Lost Oasis," Everybody's Magazine, Nov., 1910. Lives in Evanston, Ill.
*Parting Genius.
#Delano, Edith Barnard.# Born in Washington, D. C. Married in 1908. Author: "Zebedee V.," 1912; "The Land of Content," 1913; "The Colonel's Experiment," 1913; "Rags," 1915; "The White Pearl," 1916; "June," 1916; "To-morrow Morning," 1917. Lives in East Orange, N. J.
Life and the Tide.
(456) #Dobie, Charles Caldwell# (for biography, see 1917).
*Christmas Cakes.
*Leech.
#Dodge, Louis.# Born at Burlington, Ia., Sept. 27, 1870. Educated at Whitman College, Ark. Unmarried. In newspaper work in Texas and St. Louis since 1893. Author: "Bonnie May," 1916; "Children of the Desert," 1917. Lives in St. Louis, Mo.
Case of MacIntyre.
(36) #Dreiser, Theodore# (for biography, see 1919).
*Sanctuary.
(5) #Ellerbe, Alma and Paul# (for biographies, see 1918).
Paradise Shares.
(4) #Ferber, Edna# (for biography, see 1917).
*Maternal Feminine.
*You've Got To Be Selfish.
#Fillmore, Parker.# Born at Cincinnati, O., Sept. 21, 1878. Graduated from University of Cincinnati, 1901. Unmarried. Teacher in Philippine Islands, 1901-4. Banker in Cincinnati since 1904. Author: "The Hickory Limb," 1910; "The Young Idea," 1911; "The Rosie World," 1914; "A Little Question in Ladies' Rights," 1916; "Czecho-Slovak Fairy Tales," 1919; "The Shoemaker's Last," 1920. Lives in Cincinnati, O.
Katcha and the Devil.
#Finger, Charles J.# Born at Willesden, England, Sept. 25, 1871. Common School education. Railroad Executive. Has traveled widely in South America, including Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego. Spent more than a year upon an uninhabited island, accompanied only by "Sartor Resartus." First story: "How Lazy Sam Got His Raise," Youth's Companion, 1897. Author of "Guided by the World," 1901; "A Bohemian Life," 1902. Lives in Fayetteville, Ark.
*Ebro.
Jack Random.
(6) #Fish, Horace# (for biography, see 1919).
*Doom's-Day Envelope.
#Follett, Wilson.#
*Dive.
(4) #Folsom, Elizabeth Irons# (for biography, see 1917).
Alibi.
(12345) #Gerould, Katharine Fullerton# (for biography, see 1917).
*Habakkuk.
*Honest Man.
(5) #Gilbert, George# (for biography, see 1918).
Sigh of the Bulbul.
(1345) #Gordon, Armistead C.# (for biography, see 1917).
*Panjorum Bucket.
#Halverson, Delbert M.# Born on a farm near Linn Grove, Ia. Educated at the State University of Iowa. First story: "Leaves in the Wind," Midland, April, 1920. Lives in Minneapolis, Minn.
Leaves in the Wind.
(4) #Hartman, Lee Foster# (for biography, see 1917).
*Judgment of Vulcan.
(56) #Hergesheimer, Joseph# (for biography, see 1918).
*Blue Ice.
*Ever So Long Ago.
*Meeker Ritual (II).
*"Read Them and Weep."
(25) #Hughes, Rupert# (for biography, see 1918).
*Stick-in-the-Muds.
#Hunting, Ema S.# Born at Sioux Rapids, Iowa, Oct. 8, 1885. Educated at Fort Dodge High School, Ia., and graduate of Grinnell College, 1908. Author of "A Dickens Revival." Writer of one-act plays and children's stories. First short story: "Dissipation," Midland, May, 1920. Lives at Denver, Col.
Dissipation.
Soul That Sinneth.
#Hussey, L. M.# Born in Philadelphia. Studied medicine and chemistry. Director of a laboratory of biological research. First story: "The Sorrows of Mr. Harlcomb," published in the Smart Set about 1916. At present occupied with writing a novel. Lives in Philadelphia, Pa.
Lowden Household.
Two Gentlemen of Caracas.
(6) #Irwin, Wallace# (for biography, see 1919).
Beauty.
#Johns, Orrick.#
Big Frog.
(256) #Johnson, Arthur# (for biography, see 1918).
*Princess of Tork.
(3) #Knight, (Clifford) Reynolds.# Born at Fulton, Kan., 1886. Educated at Washburn College, Topeka, and University of Michigan. Has been engaged in railroad and newspaper work. Taught in the Signal Corps Training School at Yale during the war. Now on the editorial staff of the Kansas City Star. Chief interests: Books and music. First published story: "The Rule of Three," The Railroad Man's Magazine, Oct., 1911. Author: "Tommy of the Voices," 1918. Lives in Kansas City, Mo.
*Melody Jim.
#Komroff, Manuel.#
Thumbs.
"#Kral, Carlos A. V."# Born in a country town in southern Michigan, Dec. 29, 1890, of Czech-Yankee descent. Has lived continuously since three years of age in one of the large cities of the Great Lakes. Graduated from a public high school, but was educated chiefly by thought and private study.
Landscape with Trees, and Colored Twilight with Music.
(6) #La Motte, Ellen Newbold.# Born in Louisville, Ky., of northern parentage. Privately educated. Graduated from the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1902. Since engaged in social work and public health work. Was in charge of the Tuberculosis Division of the Baltimore Health Dept. for several years. Has been living chiefly in Paris since 1913. Was in France with a year's service in a Field Hospital attached to the French Army. Spent a year in China and the Far East, 1916-7. Chief interests: the under dog, either the individual or nation. First short story: "Heroes," Atlantic Monthly, Aug., 1916. Author: "The Tuberculosis Nurse," 1914; "The Backwash of War," 1916; "Peking Dust," 1919; "Civilization," 1919. "The Backwash of War" was suppressed by the British, French and American governments. It went through four printings first, and is now released again.
Golden Stars.
#McCourt, Edna Wahlert.#
*Lichen.
(6) #MacManus, Seumas.#
Conaleen and Donaleen.
Heartbreak of Norah O'Hara.
Lad from Largymore.
#Mann, Jane.# Born near New York City of Knickerbocker ancestry. After college preparatory school had several years of art education. Chief interest: wandering along coasts, living with the natives, seeing what they do and hearing what they say. First published story: "Men and a Gale o' Wind," Collier's Weekly, Nov. 8, 1913. Lives in Provincetown, Mass.
Heritage.
#Mason, Grace Sartwell.# Born at Port Allegheny, Pa., Oct. 31, 1877. Educated privately. Married to Redfern Mason, the musical critic, 1902. Author: "The Car and the Lady," 1909; "The Godparents," 1910; "Micky and His Gang," 1912; "The Bear's Claws" (with John Northern Hilliard), 1913; "The Golden Hope," 1915. Lives at Carmel, Cal.
*His Job.
(6) #"Maxwell, Helena"# (for biography, see 1919).
Adolescence.
#Mears, Mary M.# Born at Oshkosh, Wis. Educated at State Normal School, Wis. Unmarried. Journalist since 1896. Author: "Emma Lou--Her Book," 1896; "Breath of the Runners," 1906; "The Bird in the Box"; "Rosamond the Second." Lives in New York City.
Forbidden Thing.
(36) #Montague, Margaret Prescott# (for biography, see 1919).
*Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge.
(6) #Murray, Roy Irving.# Born at Brooklyn, Wis., July 25, 1882. Graduated from Hobart College, 1904. First story: "Sealed Orders," McBride's Magazine, Dec., 1915. Is a master at St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mass.
Substitute.
(6) #Muth, Edna Tucker.#
*Gallipeau.
#O'Brien, Frederick.# Born in Baltimore. Educated in a Jesuit school. Shipped before the mast at the age of 18. Tramped over Brazil as a day laborer, and through the West Indies. Returned to America and read law in his father's office. Wandered without money over Europe, and was a sandwichman in London. On the staff of the Paris Herald for a few months. Travelled over the western states as a hobo, was a bartender in a Mississippi levee camp, acted as a general with Coxey's Army, became a crime reporter for the Marion Star, owned by Senator Harding, Sub-editor of the Columbus Dispatch, Labor Editor of the N. Y. Journal, an investigator of crime in the Chicago slums, a freelance in San Francisco, and editor of the Honolulu Advertiser. Lived with the natives in Hawaii, published a newspaper in Manila, spent eight years as Far Eastern correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, went through the Russo-Japanese War, returned to Europe as a correspondent, spent some years on a fruit ranch in California, engaged in politics, owned two newspapers, and finally lived as a beachcomber in Tahiti, the Society Islands, the Paumoto Islands and Marquesan Islands. During 1920 he was in New York and wrote "White Shadows in the South Seas." He has now returned to Asia, leaving another book, "Drifting Among South Sea Isles," which is to be published immediately.
*Jade Bracelet of Ah Queen.
#"O'Grady, R."# is a pen name of a lady who lives in Des Moines, Ia. She is a graduate of the State University of Iowa, and is now engaged in newspaper work.
Brothers.
#O'Hagan, Anne.# Born in Washington, D. C. Graduate of Boston University. Since engaged on newspaper and magazine work. First story published about 1898. Chief interests: Suffrage and housekeeping. Married in March, 1908, to Francis A. Shinn. Lives in New York City.
Return.
(45) #O'Higgins, Harvey J.# (for biography, see 1917).
Story of Big Dan Reilly.
*Story of Mrs. Murchison.
Strange Case of Warden Jupp.
(5) #Oppenheim, James# (for biography, see 1918).
*Rending.
#Osbourne, Lloyd.# Born in San Francisco, April 7, 1868. Stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson. Educated at University of Edinburgh. Married 1896. Has been U. S. A. Vice-Consul-General at Samoa. Author: "The Wrong Box" (with R. L. Stevenson), 1889; "The Wrecker" (with R. L. Stevenson), 1892; "The Ebb Tide" (with R. L. Stevenson), 1894; "The Queen vs. Billy," 1900; "Love, the Fiddler," 1905; "The Motor-maniacs," 1905; "Wild Justice," 1906; "Three Speeds Forward," 1906; "Baby Bullet," 1906; "The Tin Diskers," 1906; "Schmidt," 1907; "The Adventurer," 1907; "Infatuation," 1909; "A Person of Some Importance," 1911; and other novels and short stories. Has written and produced several plays. Lives in New York City.
East is East.
(345) #O'Sullivan, Vincent# (for biography, see 1917).
*Dance-Hall at Unigenitus.
(123) #Post, Melville Davisson.# Born in Harrison County, W. Va., Apr. 19, 1871. Graduate of West Virginia University in arts and law, 1892. Married 1903. Admitted to the Bar in 1892. Member of the Board of Regents, State Normal School. Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Commission for West Virginia, 1898. Member of the Advisory Committee of the N. E. L. on question of efficiency in administration of justice, 1914-15. Author: "The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason," 1896; "The Man of Last Resort," 1897; "Dwellers in the Hills," 1901; "The Corrector of Destinies," 1909; "The Gilded Chair," 1910; "The Nameless Thing," 1912; "Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries," 1918; "The Mystery at the Blue Villa," 1919; "The Sleuth of St. James's Square," 1920. Lives at Lost Creek, West Virginia.
Yellow Flower.
#Reindel, Margaret H.# Born in Cleveland, O., Dec. 2, 1896. Graduated from Western Reserve University, 1919, and spent a year at Columbia University. Now working in a New York department store. First story published: "Fear," The Touchstone. Lives in New York City.
Fear.
#Rice, Louise.#
*Lubbeny Kiss.
#Roche, Arthur Somers.# Born in Somerville, Mass., Apr. 27, 1883. Son of James Jeffrey Roche. Educated at Holy Cross College and Boston University Law School. Married. Practised law for two years. Engaged in journalism since 1906. Author: "Loot," 1916; "Plunder," 1917; "The Sport of Kings," 1917. Lives at Castine, Me.
*Dummy-Chucker.
(3) #Roche, Mazo De La.#
Explorers of the Dawn.
(234) #Rosenblatt, Benjamin# (for biography, see 1917).
*Stepping Westward.
#Rumsey, Frances.# Born in New York City in 1886. Educated in France. Has lived chiefly in England and France, and now passes her time between Normandy, London, and New York. Married. First short story: "Cash," Century Magazine, August, 1920. Author: "Mr. Gushing and Mademoiselle du Chastel," 1917. Translator: "Japanese Impressions," by Couchoud, 1920.
*Cash.
(5) #Russell, John# (for biography, see 1918).
Wreck on Deliverance.
#"Rutledge, Maryse."# Born in New York City, Nov. 24, 1884. Educated in private schools, New York and Paris. Chief interests: painting, tenting, canoeing, and hunting in Maine. Married to Gardner Hale, the mural fresco painter. First story published in the Smart Set about 1903. Author: "Anne of Tréboul," 1904; "The Blind Who See"; "Wild Grapes," 1912; "Children of Fate," 1917. Divides her time between Paris and New York City.
House of Fuller.
#Ryan, Kathryn White.# Born in Albany, N. Y. Convent
school education. Married. Lived in Denver until 1919.
First story published: "The Orchids," Munsey's Magazine,
May, 1919. Lives in New York City.
Man of Cone.
#Saphier, William.# Born in northern Rumania in 1883. Comes of a long line of butchers. Primary school education in Rumania. Student at the Art Institute of Chicago for a short time. Painter and machinist. Editor of "Others," 1917. Illustrator: "The Book of Jeremiah," 1920; "Pins for Wings," by Witter Bynner, 1920. First published story: "Kites," The Little Review. Lives in New York City.
Kites.
(356) #Sedgwick, Anne Douglas# (for biography, see 1918).
*Christmas Roses.
(6) #Sidney, Rose.# Born in Toledo, O., 1888. Educated in private schools and at Columbia University. "My profession consists largely in trying to make odd holes and corners of the earth into temporary homes for my army officer husband." First published story: "Grapes of the San Jacinto," The Pictorial Review, Sept., 1919. Now living in California.
*Butterflies.
(123456) #Singmaster, Elsie# (for biography, see 1917).
Miss Vilda.
Salvadora.
(345) #Springer, Fleta Campbell# (for biography, see 1917).
*Civilization.
*Rotter.
(23456) #Steele, Wilbur Daniel# (for biography, see 1917).
*Both Judge and Jury.
*God's Mercy.
*Out of Exile.
#"Storm, Ethel."# Born at Winnebago City, Minnesota. Lived in New York City since early childhood. Privately educated. Chief interests: decorative art, gardening, people. First published story: "Burned Hands," Harper's Bazar, Nov., 1918. Lives in New York City.
*Three Telegrams.
(5) #Street, Julian# (for biography, see 1918).
Hands.
(3456) #Vorse, Mary Heaton# (for biography, see 1917).
*Fraycar's Fist.
*Hopper.
Pink Fence.
#Ward, Herbert Dickinson.# Born at Waltham, Mass., June 30, 1861. Graduate of Amherst College, 1884. Married Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1888; and Edna J. Jeffress, 1916. Author of numerous books for boys and girls. Lives in Newton, Mass.
Master Note.
#Welles, Harriet Ogden Deen.# Born in New York City. Educated in private schools. Studied art. Wife of Rear Admiral Roger Welles, U. S. Navy. Author of "Anchors Aweigh," 1919. Lives in San Diego, Cal.
According to Ruskin.
#Wheelwright, John T.# Born at Roxbury, Mass., Feb. 26, 1856. Educated at Roxbury Latin School and Harvard University. Profession: Lawyer. Has been interested in public affairs, and has held appointive offices under the State of Massachusetts and the City of Boston. Was one of the founders of the Harvard Lampoon. On editorial staff of Boston Advertiser, 1882-3. Author: "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge" (with F. J. Stimson), 1880; "The King's Men" (with John Boyle O'Reilly, F. J. Stimson, and Robert Grant), 1884; "A Child of the Century," 1886; "A Bad Penny," 1896; "War Children," 1907. Lives in Boston, Mass.
*Roman Bath.
#Whitman, Stephen French.#
*Amazement.
*Lost Waltz.
*To a Venetian Tune.
(56) #Williams, Ben Ames# (for biography, see 1918).
*Sheener.
#Wilson, John Fleming.# Born at Erie, Pa., Feb. 22, 1877. Educated at Parsons College and Princeton University. Teacher, 1900-2; journalist, 1902-5; editor San Francisco Argonaut, 1906. Married, 1906. Author: "The Land Claimers," 1910; "Across the Latitudes," 1911; "The Man Who Came Back," 1912; "The Princess of Sorry Valley," 1913; "Tad Sheldon and His Boy Scouts," 1913; "The Master Key," 1915.
Uncharted Reefs.
(6) #Wilson, Margaret Adelaide.# Educated at Portland Academy, Portland, Oregon, and at an eastern college. Since then she has lived chiefly on her father's ranch in the San Jacinto Valley, California. First published story: "Towata and His Brother Wind," The Bellman, about 1907. Lives at Hemet, Cal.
Drums.
(5) #Wood, Frances Gilchrist# (for biography, see 1918).
*Spoiling of Pharaoh.
*Turkey Red.
(6) #Yezierska, Anzia# (for biography, see 1919).
*Hunger.
THE ROLL OF HONOR OF FOREIGN SHORT STORIES IN AMERICAN MAGAZINES
OCTOBER, 1919, TO SEPTEMBER, 1920
#Note.# Stories of special excellence are indicated by an asterisk. The index figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 prefixed to the name of the author indicate that his work has been included in the Rolls of Honor for 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1919 respectively. The list excludes reprints.
I. #English and Irish Authors#
(123456) #Aumonier, Stacy.#
*Good Action.
*Golden Windmill.
*Great Unimpressionable.
*Just the Same.
*Landlord of "The-Love-a-Duck."
#Barker, Granville.#
Bigamist.
#Beck, L. Adams.#
Fire of Beauty.
Incomparable Lady.
(12356) #Blackwood, Algernon.#
*First Hate.
*Running Wolf.
#Buchan, John.#
Fullcircle.
(6) #Burke, Thomas.#
*Scarlet Shoes.
#Dobrée, Bonamy.#
Surfeit.
(456) #Dudeney, Mrs. Henry E.#
Wild Raspberries.
(46) #Dunsany, Lord.#
*Cheng Hi and the Window Framer.
*East and West.
*How the Lost Causes Were Removed from Valhalla.
*Pretty Quarrel.
#Ervine, St. John G.#
Dramatist and the Leading Lady.
(2) #Gibbon, Perceval.#
*Connoisseur.
Knave of Diamonds.
Lieutenant.
#Holding, Elizabeth Sanxay.#
Problem that Perplexed Nicholson.
(4) #Lawrence, D. H.#
*Adolf.
#MacManus, L.#
Baptism.
#Merrick, Leonard.#
To Daphne De Vere.
#Monro, Harold.#
*Parcel of Love.
(456) #Mordaunt, Elinor.#
*Adventures in the Night.
*Ginger Jar.
#Nevinson, Henry W.#
*In Diocletian's Day.
#Owen, H. Collinson.#
Temptation of Antoine.
#Richardson, Dorothy M.#
*Sunday.
#Sinclair, May.#
*Fame.
(5) #Stephens, James.#
*Boss.
*Desire.
*Thieves.
(2) Walpole, Hugh.
*Case of Miss Morganhurst.
*Fanny's Job.
*Honourable Clive Torby.
*No Place for Absalom.
*Stealthy Visitor.
*Third Sex.
