75 Short Masterpieces

Roger B. Goodman, M.A. has been a teacher of English in the New York City high school system for a number of years. He has served as Instructor on The High School of the Air, and has conducted many courses in the City College Adult Education Program, specializing in vocabulary development. From 1942 to 1945 he served as an officer and teacher in Army schools, both in the United States and overseas.

1842 – 1914?

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist.

22 August 1920 – 5 June 2012

Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, *The Martian Chronicles*, *The Illustrated Man*, *Fahrenheit 451* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes*, are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st. In recognition of his s…