Reader's Digest Association, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Jack London, Susan Glaspell, Jesse Stuart, John O'Hara, O. Henry, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Damon Runyon, Marc Connelly, Edith Wharton, Bret Harte, Shirley Ann Grau, Heywood Broun, Henry James, Shirley Jackson, Stephen Crane, John Updike, Pearl S. Buck, Stephen Vincent Benét, Kay Boyle, Herman Melville, John Cheever, Ambrose Bierce, Readers Digest Editors, Richard Connell · First published 1977
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