The Best American Short Stories by Barbara Kingsolver

The Best American Short Stories by Barbara Kingsolver

This year's Best American Short Stories is edited by the critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, whose latest book is Prodigal Summer. Kingsolver's selections for The Best American Short Stories 2001 showcase a wide variety of new voices and masters, such as Alice Munro, Rick Moody, Dorothy West, and John Updike. Reading these stories was both a distraction from and an anchor to the complexities of my life -- my pleasure, my companionship, my salvation. I hope they will be yours. -- Barbara Kingsolver

Since 1990, Katrina Kenison has served as the annual editor of The Best American Short Stories. She edited The Best American Short Tales of the Century, a New York Times bestseller, alongside John Updike. She is the coeditor of Mothers: Twenty Tales of Modern Motherhood and has written essays for Redbook and Ladies' Home Journal, among other publications. She and her husband, as well as their two sons, live just outside of Boston.