Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960

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1960780 pagesSimon & Schuster

This massive collection gathers forty-seven stories that defined the literary landscape of the 1950s. It features early work from masters like J.D. Salinger, John Updike, and Vladimir Nabokov, capturing the mid-century American experience through sharp observations of social manners and domestic life. These pieces represent a decade of high-caliber fiction from one of the world's most influential magazines.

Avg. reading time: 15h 35m
Prose complexity: 10/10

Reflective Intellectual Satirical Nostalgic

Frank O'Connor

Frank O'Connor (born Michael Francis O'Donovan) was an Irish writer of over 150 works, best known for his short stories and memoirs. The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award is named in his honor.

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков; 23 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems. Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as among his most important novels and is his most widely kn...

Daniel Fuchs

Daniel Fuchs is the author of Short Stories from the New Yorker. He's a writer whose work you'll find in the pages of that magazine.

V. S. Pritchett

V. S. Pritchett was a writer celebrated for his short stories, including "Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960." He also wrote memoirs like "Coming to London" and edited "The Oxford book of short stories." His work often brought a sharp comedic eye to life, as seen in "The key to my heart.

J. D. Salinger

Jerome David Salinger (January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine in 1940, before serving in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story A Perfect Day for Bananafish appeared in The New Yorker, which published much of his later work. The Catcher in the Rye was an immediate popular success; Salinger's depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of in...