Copyright Notices and Acknowledgments
Introduction
JAMES AGEE: "1928 Story"
JOHN BARTH: "Water-Message"
DORIS BETTS: "The Ugliest Pilgrim"
TRUMAN CAPOTE: "Children on Their Birthdays"
FRED CHAPPELL: "Blue Dive"
JOHN WILLIAM CORRINGTON: "Pleadings"
ANDRE DUBUS: "Over the Hill"
WILLIAM FAULKNER: "Pantaloon in Black"
ERNEST GAINES: "The Sky Is Gray"
GEORGE GARRETT: "Time of Bitter Children"
ELLEN GILCHRIST: "Revenge"
CAROLINE GORDON: "The Brilliant Leaves"
WILLIAM GOYEN: "The Faces of Blood Kindred"
BARRY HANNAH: "Testimony of Pilot"
MARY HOOD: "Nobody's Fool"
MADISON JONES: "The Fugitives"
CARSON MCCULLERS: "The Sojourner"
FLANNERY O'CONNOR: "Good Country People"
BREECE D'J PANCAKE: "Trilobites"
JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS: "1934"
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER: "Holiday"
REYNOLDS PRICE: "The Warrior Princess Ozimba"
EVE SHELNUTT: "Angel"
ELIZABETH SPENCER: "The Finder"
PETER TAYLOR: "What You Hear from 'Em?"
ANNE TYLER: "The Geologist's Maid"
ALICE WALKER: "Strong Horse Tea"
ROBERT PENN WARREN: "Blackberry Winter"
EUDORA WELTY: "The Wide Net"
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: "The Yellow Bird"
Contributors