The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction (Second Edition)
R. V. Cassill the original editor of The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, taught creative writing at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and at Brown, Purdue, Columbia, and Harvard. He was the author of more than thirty books of fiction, including the novels Clem Anderson, Dr. Cobb’s Game, and After Goliath. Cassil’s Collected Stories was published in 1989. He died in Rhode Island in 2002.Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most important and well known writers—and one of America’s foremost writers of the short story form.  She is also a regular contributor of reviews and criticism for the New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere.  She also reads and lectures widely throughout the US, at universities and bookstores.