The Akkad provides in this book examples of the short story of some American writers, following the stages of American literature, as American literature went through several stages, and it has been established by developments related to economic, political and social factors, and the Akkad believes that reading the cultures of peoples and their literature is a key to understanding them. And Al -Akkad is Abbas Mahmoud Al -Akkad; A writer, poet, historian, and Egyptian philosopher, who devoted his life to literature, as he is a journalist who has many articles, and his star shined in modern Arabic literature, and reached a high rank. Al -Akkad was born in Aswan Governorate in 1889, in a simple family. He has composed more than a hundred books, and the books of genius are one of its most famous books. He died in 1964, leaving behind a dirty literary inheritance.