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The Museum
Poet and translator, W. S. MERWINwas born in New York City in 1927, graduated from Princeton, and Worked as a tutor in Prance, Portugal. and Majorca from 1999 to 1951. His first book of poems, A MASK FOR JANUS, was published in 1952; his most recent volume, THE MOVING TARGET, appeared last autumn.
Another Day
DAN JACOBSON was born in Johannesburg in 1929, graduated from the University of Wilwatersrand, and came to Leland Stanford on a fellowship. The author of five volumes of fiction, he now lives in London, where he is at work on a long novel.
The Trail
A Southern writer whose short stories first appeared in these pages , and whose first novel, MOUNTAINS OF GILEAD, appeared under the Atlantic—Little, Brown imprint, JESSE HILL FORD lives in Humboldt, Tennessee. Now at work on his second novel,Mr. Ford manages to recapture in his dialogue and wry comments some of the essential flavor of the small Southern community.
Neighbors
A Radcliffe graduate, SALLIE BINGHAM started gaining awards for her fiction while she was in college. One of her short stories won the Dana Reed Prize for 1957 and was reprinted in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1959; recently she received an O. Henry award for “The Banks of the Ohio” which appeared in the January, 1963, ATLANTIC.
The Hill of the Comadres
JUAN RULFO, one of Mexico’s most gifted writers of fiction, has won international recognition through translation of his work into English,French, Italian,German,Czech, and Swedish. His novel PEDRO PÁRAMO has been published in an American edition by Grove Press, and his collection of short stories EL LLANO EN LLAMAS, from which we have selected the story that follows,is considered a contemporary classic in Mexico. Mr. Rulfo was born in Sayula in the slate of Jalisco in 1918.
Father and Son
MAURO SENESI is a young writer who lives in Florence and contributes to various Italian newspapers and magazines. His first short story published in America appeared in the ATLANTIC in the autumn of 1961. He has since finished the English version of his novel, LONGSHADOW,and is working on a new book. The following story has been translated by Elaine Maclachlan.
The Cure
After taking an honors degree at Oxford, ALLAN SEAGERwas an editor ofVANITY FAIRmagazine under Frank Crowninshield. Now professor of English at the University of Michigan. Mr. Seager has published about eighty short stories and Jive novels, the latest beingAMOS BERRY, HILDA MANNING,and.DEATH OF ANGER. The following story is included in A FRIEZE OF GIRLS, being published this month by McGraw-Hill.
Sarah
Raised in Harlem, MARTIN J. HAMER has since lived in every borough of New York except Staten Island. He writes, however, “I have spent most of my years traveling inside myself; for at least the horrors there are of my own making.” He works as an electromechanical designer and is an evening student at the City College of New York, where he is majoring in psychology.
The Cave
A Southern writer whose short stories first appeared in these pages and whose first novel, MOUNTAINS OF GILEAD, appeared under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint, JESSE HILL FORD makes his home in Humboldt. Tennessee. He is now at work on a second novel.
The Ice Party
Southern-born and a graduate of Radcliffe, class of 1958, SALLIE BINGHAM started the writing of fiction while she was in college. One of her short stories won the Dana Reed Prize for 1957 and was reprinted inTHE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1959.Her first novel,AFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE,was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1960.