These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of
fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day.
Jean Stafford communicates the small details of loneliness and
connection, the search for freedom and the desire to belong, that not
only illuminate whole lives but also convey with an elegant economy of
words the sense of the place and time in which her protagonists find
themselves. The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford includes the
acclaimed story An Influx of Poets, which has never before appeared in
book form.