Mark Twain, “How I Escaped Being Killed in a Duel”
John Muir, “Yosemite Valley in Flood”
Stephen Crane, “An Episode of War”
Edith Wharton, “Miss Mary Pask”
Zora Neale Hurston, “John Redding Goes to Sea”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Oval Portrait”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Lees of Happiness”
O. Henry, “An Unfinished Story”
Helen Hunt Jackson, “Echoes in the City of the Angels”
James Gordon Bennett, “The Recent Tragedy”
Happy 150th birthday, Theodore Dreiser
Constance Fenimore Woolson, “The Lady of Little Fishing”
Red Smith, “Kings Get in Free”
Ernest Hemingway, “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife”
Elizabeth Spencer, “The White Azalea”
James Weldon Johnson, “Stranger Than Fiction”