Books about Short stories, American (sorted alphabetically)
- When You Were a Boy Edwin L. Sabin
- Whilomville Stories Stephen Crane
- Whirligigs O. Henry
- White Shield Myrtle Reed
- Whom the Gods Destroyed Josephine Daskam Bacon
- Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
- Wind-Jammers T. Jenkins Hains
- Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies Washington Irving
- Wood Fire in No. 3 Francis Hopkinson Smith
- Wounds in the rain: War stories Stephen Crane
- Woven with the Ship: A Novel of 1865 Cyrus Townsend Brady
- Young Mountaineers: Short Stories Charles Egbert Craddock
- You Should Worry Says John Henry George V. Hobart
- Youth and the Bright Medusa Willa Cather
- Zut, and Other Parisians Guy Wetmore Carryl