Includes bibliographical references (pages 651-667).

Complete stories. Sucker ; Court in the west eighties ; Poldi ; Breath from the sky ; The orphanage ; Instant of the hour after ; Like that ; Wunderkind ; The aliens ; Untitled piece ; The jockey ; Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland ; Correspondence ; A tree. A rock. A cloud ; Art and Mr. Mahoney ; The sojourner ; A domestic dilemma ; The haunted boy ; Who has seen the wind? ; The march -- The member of the wedding : a play -- The sojourner -- The square root of wonderful -- Essays and other writings. Home for Christmas ; The discovery of Christmas ; A hospital Christmas Eve ; Look homeward, Americans ; Night watch over freedom ; We carried our banners, we were pacifists, too ; Love's not time's fool (by a war wife) ; Our heads are bowed ; Brooklyn is my neighbourhood ; Loneliness .. an American malady ; The great eaters of Georgia ; Books I remember ; The Russian realists and Southern literature ; Isak Dinesen : Winter's tales ; Isak Dinesen : in praise of radiance ; How I began to write ; Author's outline of "The mute" ; The flowering dream : notes on writing ; The vision shared ; Playwright tells of pangs ; The dark brilliance of Edward Albee ; Poems. The mortgaged heart ; When we are lost ; The dual angel ; Stone is not stone ; Saraband -- Autobiography. Illumination and night glare -- Appendix. The sojourner : broadcast transcription -- Chronology.