A review by beautifulshell
The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Donald Moffat, Sinclair Lewis, S.J. Perelman, Arthur Kober, Clarence Day Jr., Sally Benson, Robert Benchley, Donald Ogden Stewart, James Thurber, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Booth Tarkington, Dorothy Parker, Frank R. Stockton, Leonard Q. Ross, O. Henry, Damon Runyon, Robert N. Linscott, James M. Cain, Walter D. Edmonds, George Washington Harris, Artemus Ward, Frank Sullivan, Ellis Parker Butler, St. Clair McKelway, Finley Peter Dunne, Ring Lardner, Marc Connelly, Ruth McKenney, Joel Chandler Harris, Mark Twain, John S. Robb, Ed Linscott Robert Newton, Bret Harte

3.0

This book added quite a bit to my awareness of early-to-mid 20th century humor. Not that I couldn't have thought of most of these authors if I thought about it, but who would have thought about whether Life with Father began life as a book? I ended up skipping a lot of the early stories that were heavy on the dialect, but all in all, this added quite a bit to my to-read list. James Thurber, Sally Benson, and Clarence Day top my list to check out.