Collected Stories of Carson McCullers (60 page)

Carson McCullers died in 1967. In 1971 her sister, Margarita G. Smith, published
The Mortgaged Heart,
a selection from McCullers's previously uncollected writings. Many of the earliest stories, as well as a few of the latest, were published here in book form for the first time.

The contents of
Collected Stories
are listed below in the order in which they were written. The order of the first ten items is speculative and follows that given by Margarita Smith in
The Mortgaged Heart.

"Sucker." Written c. 1934. First published, with an author's note, in
The Saturday Evening Post,
September 28, 1963; reprinted in
The Mortgaged Heart,
1971.

"Court in the West Eighties." Written c. 1934. First published in
The Mortgaged Heart
, 1971.

"Poldi." Written c. 1934–36. First published in
The Mortgaged Heart,
1971.

"Breath from the Sky." Written c. 1935–36. First published in
The Mortgaged Heart,
1971.

"The Orphanage." Written c. 1935–36. First published in
The Mortgaged Heart,
1971.

"Instant of the Hour After." Written c. 1935–36,. First published in
The Mortgaged Heart
, 1971.

"Like That." Written c. 1935–36. Purchased by
Story
magazine in 1936 but never published. First published in
The Mortgaged Heart,
1971.

"Wunderkind." First published in
Story,
December 1936; reprinted in
The Ballad of the Sad Café,
1951, and
The Mortgaged Heart,
1971.

"The Aliens." Written c. 1935–36. First published in
The Mortgaged Heart,
1971.

"Untitled Piece." Written c. 1935–36. First published in
The Mortgaged Heart,
1971.

"The Jockey." First published in
The New Yorker,
August 23, 1941; reprinted in
The Ballad of the Sad Café
, 1951.

"Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland." First published in
The New Yorker,
December 20, 1941; reprinted in
The Ballad of the Sad Café,
1951.

"Correspondence." First published in
The New Yorker,
February 7, 1942; reprinted in
The Mortgaged Heart,
1971.

"A Tree • A Rock • A Cloud." First published in
Harper's Bazaar,
November 1942; reprinted in
The Ballad of the Sad Café,
1951.

The Ballad of the Sad Café.
First published in
Harper's Bazaar,
August 1943; reprinted in
The Best American Short Stories 1944,
edited by Martha Foley, and
The Ballad of the Sad Café,
1951.

The Member of the Wedding.
Part One first published in
Harper's Bazaar,
January 1946; first published in its entirety by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946.

"Art and Mr. Mahoney." First published in
Mademoiselle,
February 1949; reprinted in
The Mortgaged Heart,
1971.

"The Sojourner." First published in
Mademoiselle,
May 1950; reprinted in
The Ballad of the Sad Café
, 1951.

"A Domestic Dilemma." First published in
The Ballad of the Sad Café,
1951.

"The Haunted Boy." Published simultaneously in
Mademoiselle,
November 1955,
Botteghe Oscure,
Fall 1955, and
The Ballad of the Sad Café,
1955; reprinted in
The Mortgaged Heart,
1971.

"Who Has Seen the Wind?" First published in
Mademoiselle,
September 1956; reprinted in
The Mortgaged Heart,
1971.