This collection of William Goyen’s short stories collects all of the stories found in his four earlier collections (including his Collected Stories) as well as nine additional stories, bringing all of his previously published stories into one collection for the first time. With an introduction from Goyen’s biographer, Clark Davis, this collections lays out Goyen’s work in short fiction in a chronological order. One of America’s masters of the form finally presented in full.
About the author
Clark Davis is Professor of English in the Department of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. He has served as chair of the department for six years, from 2009-2012 and 2015-2018. He is the author of After the Whale: Melville in the Wake of Moby-Dick (Alabama UP, 1995), Hawthorne’s Shyness: Ethics, Politics, and the Question of Engagement (Johns Hopkins UP, 2005), and It Starts with Trouble: William Goyen and the Life of Writing (U of Texas Press, 2015), which was selected as a Publishers Weekly Best Non-Fiction Title for 2015. His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in a variety of journals, including Nineteenth Century Literature, Arizona Quarterly, The New England Quarterly, The Southern Review, Raritan, Common Knowledge, ESQ, ATQ, Southwestern American Literature, Studies in American Fiction, and The Southwest Review.
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