The Best American Short Stories

Brief Description: The oldest and bestselling Best American, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2009 will be selected by Alice Sebold, author of the bestseller THE LOVELY BONES. Brief Description: Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best American. Publisher Marketing: Edited by critically acclaimed, bestselling author Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provocative literary antenna for what is going on in the world (Chicago Tribune), ensuring yet another rewarding edition of this bestselling series. Review Citations:

Booklist 10/15/2009 pg. 20 (EAN 9780618792252, Paperback)

Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2009 (EAN 9780618792252, Paperback)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 50 (EAN 9780618792252, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Sebold, Alice Alice Sebold is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novelsThe Lovely Bones, The Almost Moon, andLucky, a memoir. She won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2002 and the ABA Book of the Year Award in 2003, both for The Lovely Bones. The book was also made into a movie starring Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, and Saoirse Ronan. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, the University of Houston, and the University of California, Irvine. Sebold lives in California with her husband, the novelist Glen David Gold. Contributor Bio:  Pitlor, Heidi HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of The Birthdays and a forthcoming novel titled The Daylight Marriage.