Man on a Road and Other Stories

The stories selected for this volume are considered classics and have been translated into more than 20 languages. Some of them were inspired by the epic deep-dive into Depression-era America. This volume includes an unpublished story, Husband and Wife, ’The Happiest Man on Earth’, winner of the 1938 O. Henry Award, and ’Circus Come to Town’, which received the Normandy Pen Award for literature in 1952

Albert Maltz (1908-85) was a prizewinning American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. His novel The Cross and the Arrow, about the German resistance to the Nazi regime, was distributed to 150,000 American soldiers during the Second World War. He worked on a number of films, including Casablanca, until he was blacklisted during McCarthyism. He is best remembered today for his novels A Tale of One January and The Journey of Simon McKeever.