Fiction

The Weighing Machine: A Story

The Day We Lost Tilo

FRANCES JOHNSON, a native of California, lived in Japan both before and after the Second World War. She holds an M.A. from the University of California, where she majored in Far Eastern History, and her knowledge of and affection for the Japanese were gained at first hand. “I am currently living in California,”she writes, “after a roving past which included among other stays a year in India, another in the Fiji Islands, and five years in Occupied Germany. This is Miss Johnson’s first appearance in the Atlantic.

Young Man With a Spear

An engineer who served in the Navy during the war, JOSEPH WHITEHILL,now in his thirtieth year, has settled on the eastern shore of Maryland to devote his full time to wrting. “Able Baker” was his first story to appear in the Atlantic, and it won him an Atlantic award and a place in the Prize Stories of 1956. A collection of his best narratives, entitled Able Baker and Others, has just been published in book form under the Atlantic—Little. Brown imprint, and rumor has it that he is well along with his first novel.

Eight Years in the Making

A Londoner who cherishes every vestige of the cockney, WOLF MANKOWITZ graduated from Cambridge University and now divides his time between authoritative studies of the Portland vase, humorous articles for Punch, and fiction. His first two novels, Make Me an Offer and A Kid for Two Farthings, were made into films, and his latest, Old Soldiers Never Die, was very favorably reviewed in its American edition last fall.

Miss Carlo

NATHANIEL LAMAR, who was horn in Atlanta, Georgia, twenty-two years ago, prepared for Harvard at Phillips Exeter. He majored in English and found particular stimulus for his writing in the courses which he took under Archibald AlacLeish. Mr. LaMar's first story in the Atlantic, “Creole Love Song,“ won the Dana Reed Award at Harvard and was reprinted in The Best American Stories, 1956. Last autumn he began to work on his first novel; and to assist in its completion, we have awarded him an Atlantic Grant in Fiction,

The End of the Record

SEAN O’FAOLAIN,unlike many of the leading Irish writers of this century (including George Bernard Shaw and James Joyce), has elected to remain in Ireland. He is a Dubliner who is generally regarded as one of the very best short-story writers of our time and is a sympathetic yet realistic interpreter of contemporary Irish life. This is one of the thirty stories which Mr. O’Faolain has selected as his best and which will be published in book form next spring by Atlantic—Little, Brown. The mood and experience which contributed to the writing of these stories, Mr. O’Faolain describes elsewhere in this issue.

Too Much Man

A Londoner who cherishes every vestige of the cockney, WOLF MANKOWITZ graduated from Cambridge University and now divides his time between authoritative studies of the Portland vase, humorous articles for Punch, and fiction. His two novels, Make Me an Offer and A Kid for Two Farthings, were made into films, and his latest book, Old Soldiers Never Die, has just been published under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint.

The Burning of the Waters

Poet and short-story writer, JAMES STILL has done much of his creative writing in that remote, picturesque stronghold, the Kentucky mountains. For years he was the librarian of the Hindman Settlement School at the forks of Troublesome Creek, and he has been the laureate oj the mountaineers. In 1910 he shared honors with Thomas Wolfe in the Southern Authors’ Award, for his novel River of Earth.Since then he has received a Guggenheim fellowship and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and his short stories have been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories of 1946, 1950, and 1952.

The Will of the Saint: A Story

The Errand: A Story