This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1919 first book edition of the stories, with Harald Toksvig's original map of the fictional Winesburg. - A thoughtful and thought-provoking preface and expanded explanatory footnotes by Marc K. Dudley. - Selections from Anderson's memoirs, two of them new to the Second Edition. - Eight contemporary reviews of Winesburg, Ohio by critics including William Faulkner and H. L. Mencken. - Nine interpretive essays, five of them new to the Second Edition. - A chronology and an updated selected bibliography. Marc K. Dudley is a professor of American literature and Africana Studies at North Carolina State University. He has spoken widely on such authors as Charles Chesnutt, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Cormac McCarthy. He has contributed to the collections The New Hemingway Studies (Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions), Hemingway's Short Stories: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding , and Teaching Hemingway and Race . Additionally, he has published in The Hemingway Review and is the author of Hemingway, Race, and Art: Bloodlines and the Color Line and Understanding James Baldwin .