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Martha Foley

March 21, 1897 – September 5, 1977 (aged 80)

Birth place: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

1 work in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
February 1957 99 Review The Best American Short Stories: 1956 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1957

1 English-language book

Year Type Title Author(s)
1956 Anthology The Best American Short Stories 1956 Martha Foley


Foley and her husband founded the short story magazine Story in Vienna, Austria, in 1931, and moved it to New York City in 1933. Foley edited the Houghton Mifflin annual Best American Short Stories from 1941 to 1977 (from 1958 to 1971 together with her son David Burnett (1931-1971)). --Wikipedia
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