This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide. Each volume offers:
- A comprehensive overview of the artist's short fiction-including detailed analyses of every significant story
- Interviews, essays, memoirs and other biographical materials -- often previously unpublished
- A representative selection of critical responses
- Acomprehensive primary bibliography, a selected bibliography of important criticism, a chronology of the artist's life and works and an index