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1941-09-10 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

1941/09-10 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XIX, Number 91. September-October 1941.

From the dedication page:This issue of STORY is a departure from the magazine’s ten-year policy of exclusive devotion to the creative short story. This exception to its usual course is the result of an unfortunate event — the death this year of Sherwood Anderson, the greatest contemporary short story writer …

Contents as taken from both the front cover and the index page inside are:

  • “Portrait 1923” taken by Alfred Stieglitz
  • “Sherwood Anderson” by Theodore Dreiser
  • “The Man of Good Will” by Paul Rosenfeld
  • “A Robin’s Egg Renaissance” by Sherwood Anderson
  • “Winesburg, Ohio” by Waldo Frank
  • “Anderson in Chicago” by Harry Hansen
  • “Hello Towns” by Harry Roskolenko
  • “Anderson’s Philosophy” by Julius W. Friend
  • “Letters to Van Wyck Brooks” by Sherwood Anderson
  • “Sherwood’s Sweetness” by Gertrude Stein
  • “French Reminiscence” by Lewis Galantiere
  • “Letter” by Thomas Wolfe
  • “The Storyteller” by Henry Miller
  • “His Collaborators” by William Saroyan
  • “The Champion” by Jesse Stuart
  • “Through a College Window” by Winifred Bland
  • “We’re All Fools” by Kenneth Patchen
  • “A Man in Town” by James Boyd
  • “Go, Scholar-Gypsy!” by Ben Hecht
  • “Procession in the Rain” by Manual Komroff
  • “Auction Day in Missouri” by Ferner Nuhn
  • “Spring, 1941” by Marsden Hartley
  • “The Triumph of the Egg” by Sherwood Anderson