Daniel Halpern is the editor of The Art of the Tale, the prequel to the present volume. He is also the
author of eight collections of poetry and has received numerous grants and awards, including fellowships from the
Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. For twenty-five years he has edited the literary
magazine Antaeus and is now editorial director of The Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Review
"A grand convocation of writers from across the globe--middle-aged and young, famous and obscure."
--Newsday
Penguin Putnam Inc. Web Site, January 2001
Summary
Following the immense success of The Art of the Tale, Daniel Halpern has assembled the next generation
of short-story writers--those born after 1937--to create a companion volume, The Art of the Story. Attesting
to the depth, range, and continued popularity of short fiction, this collection includes seventy-eight contributors
from thirty-five countries. The Art of the Story combines the best of the established masters as well as
the fresh, new voices of writers whose work has seldom been translated into English.
Featured writers include:
Ama Ata Aidoo
Julia Alvarez
Martin Amis
Margaret Atwood
Russell Banks
Julian Barnes
Ann Beattie
T. C. Boyle
Peter Carey
Angela Carter
Vikram Chandra
Edwidge Danticat
Daniele del Giudice
Junot D'az
Nathan Englander
Peter Esterhazy
Richard Ford
Peter Hoeg
Kazuo Ishiguro
Bobbie Ann Mason
Ian McEwan
Lorrie Moore
Murathan Mungan
Joyce Carol Oates
Ben Okri
Amos Oz
Salman Rushdie
Graham Swift
Tobias Wolff
Can Xue
