The Best American Short Stories 1997

T. Coraghessan Boyle

Jonathan Franzen

Jeffrey Eugenides

Michael Byers

Tobias Wolff

Pam Durban

Robert Stone

Michelle Cliff

Cynthia Ozick

June Spence

Donald Hall

Clyde Edgerton

Karen E. Bender

Alyson Hagy

Tim Gautreaux

Lydia Davis

Leonard Michaels

Annie Proulx

Junot Díaz

Katrina Kenison

Ha Jin

Carolyn Cook

Richard Bausch