Download or read book The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (Dodo Press) written by Edward J. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1890-1941) was an American author, poet, editor and anthologist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Boston College and Harvard University. He was noted for compiling and editing an annual collection of The Best Short Stories by American authors at the beginning of the twentieth-century, and also a series of The Best Short Stories by British authors. They proved to be highly influential and popular. He was also a noted author, his works including White Fountains (1917) and The Forgotten Threshold (1918).