Blackberry Winter (short story)

"Blackberry Winter"
Short story by Robert Penn Warren
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Publication
PublisherCummington Press
Media typePrint (chapbook)
Publication date1946

"Blackberry Winter" is a work of short fiction by Robert Penn Warren first appearing as a chapbook offered by Cummington Press in 1946. The story was collected in The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories (1947), published by Harcourt Brace & Company.[1]

"Blackberry Winter" is the most anthologized of Warren's short stories and widely acclaimed by critics.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Millichap, 1992 p. 17, p. 136: Selected Bibliography
  2. ^ Millichap, 1992 p. 17: "...his finest story...most famous tale..."
  3. ^ Runyon, 1985 p. 120: "...the most beloved of critics..."
  4. ^ Shepherd, 1979 p. 114: A work of "high order."