David Burnett

[Obituary from the New York Times][1] DAVID BURNETT, 39, ANTHOLOGY EDITOR Nov. 22, 1971 David Benjamin Foley Burnett, co‐editor with his mother, Martha Foley, since 1958 of the annual “The. Best American Short Stories” anthology, died yesterday in St. Vincent's Hospital after undergoing a series of operations for stomach ulcers. He was 39 years old and lived at 15 Charles Street. Mr. Burnett was born in Vienna, where his mother, then married to Whit Burnett, was co‐editor with him of …