O. Henry Award
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O. Henry Award | |
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Awarded for | Short story awards |
Country | United States |
First awarded | 1919 |
Website | http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/ |
The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American short-story writer O. Henry.
The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories is an annual collection of the year's twenty best stories published in U.S. and Canadian magazines.
Until 2002 there were first, second, and third prize winners and from 2003 to 2019 there were three jurors who each selected a short story of special interest or merit; the collection is called The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and the original collection was called Prize Stories 1919: The O. Henry Memorial Awards.
History and format
The award was first presented in 1919 and funded by the Society of Arts and Sciences.[1][2] As of 2021, the guest editor chooses twenty short stories, each an O. Henry Prize story. All stories published in an American or Canadian periodical are eligible for consideration, including stories that have been translated into English.
The goal of The O. Henry Prize Stories remains to strengthen the art of the short story.
The current series editor for The O. Henry Prize Stories is Jenny Minton Quigley. Past series editors have been: Blanche Colton Williams (1919–32), Harry Hansen (1933–40), Herschel Brickell (1941–51), Paul Engle (1954–59), Mary Stegner (1960), Richard Poirier (1961–66, assisted by William Abrahams, 1964–66), William Abrahams (1967–96), Larry Dark (1997–2002) and Laura Furman (2003–2019). There were no volumes of the series in 1952 and 1953 (due to Herschel Brickell's death), 2004 and 2020.[1]
Partnership with PEN American Center
In 2009 The O. Henry Prize Stories publisher, Anchor Books, renamed the series in partnership with the PEN American Center (today PEN America), producing the first PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories collection. Proceeds from the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 would be directed to PEN's Readers & Writers Program, which sends well-known authors to under served inner-city schools.
The selection included stories by
In an interview for the Vintage Books and Anchor Books blog, editor Laura Furman called the collaboration with PEN a "natural partnership".[4]
First-prize winners (1919–2002)
Year | Author | Title | Publication | Ref. |
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1919 | Margaret Prescott Montague | England to America | The Atlantic Monthly , September 1918
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1920 | Maxwell Struthers Burt | Each in His Generation | Scribner's Magazine, July 1920 | |
1921 | Edison Marshall | The Heart of Little Shikara | Everybody's Magazine, January 1921 | |
1922 | Irvin S. Cobb | Snake Doctor | Cosmopolitan, November 1922 | |
1923 | Edgar Valentine Smith | Prelude | Harper's Magazine, May 1923 | |
1924 | Inez Haynes Irwin | The Spring Flight | McCall's, June 1924 | |
1925 | Julian Street
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Mr. Bisbee's Princess | Redbook, May 1925 | |
1926 | Wilbur Daniel Steele | Bubbles | Harper's Magazine | |
1927 | Roark Bradford | Child of God | Harper's Magazine, April 1927 | |
1928 | Walter Duranty | The Parrot | Redbook, March 1928 | |
1929 | Dorothy Parker | Big Blonde | Bookman Magazine, February 1929 | |
1930 | W. R. Burnett | Dressing-Up | Harper's Magazine, November 1929 | [6] |
William M. John | Neither Jew nor Greek | The Century Magazine, August 1929 | [6] | |
1931 | Wilbur Daniel Steele | Can't Cross Jordan by Myself | Pictorial Review | |
1932 | Stephen Vincent Benét | An End to Dreams | Pictorial Review, February 1932 | |
1933 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | Gal Young Un | Harper's Magazine, June-July 1932 | |
1934 | Louis Paul | No More Trouble for Jedwick | Esquire | |
1935 | Kay Boyle | The White Horses of Vienna | Harper's Magazine | |
1936 | James Gould Cozzens | Total Stranger | The Saturday Evening Post, February 15, 1936 | |
1937 | Stephen Vincent Benét | The Devil and Daniel Webster | The Saturday Evening Post | |
1938 | Albert Maltz | The Happiest Man on Earth | Harper's Magazine | |
1939 | William Faulkner | Barn Burning | Harper's Magazine | |
1940 | Stephen Vincent Benét | Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing | The Saturday Evening Post | |
1941 | Kay Boyle | Defeat | The New Yorker | |
1942 | Eudora Welty | The Wide Net | Harper's Magazine | |
1943 | Eudora Welty | Livvie is Back | The Atlantic Monthly
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1944 | Irwin Shaw | Walking Wounded | The New Yorker | |
1945 | Walter Van Tilburg Clark | The Wind and the Snow of Winter | The Yale Review | |
1946 | John Mayo Goss | Bird Song | The Atlantic Monthly
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1947 | John Bell Clayton
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The White Circle | Harper's Magazine | |
1948 | Truman Capote | Shut a Final Door | The Atlantic Monthly
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1949 | William Faulkner | A Courtship | The Sewanee Review | |
1950 | Wallace Stegner | The Blue-Winged Teal | Harper's Magazine | |
1951 | Harris Downey | The Hunters | Epoch | |
1952 | No edition | |||
1953 | No edition | |||
1954 | Thomas Mabry
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The Indian Feather | The Sewanee Review | |
1955 | Jean Stafford | In the Zoo | The New Yorker | |
1956 | John Cheever | The Country Husband | The New Yorker | |
1957 | Flannery O'Connor | Greenleaf | The Kenyon Review | |
1958 | Martha Gellhorn | In Sickness as in Health | The Atlantic Monthly
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1959 | Peter Taylor | Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time | The Kenyon Review | |
1960 | Lawrence Sargent Hall | The Ledge | The Hudson Review, Winter 1958–59 | |
1961 | Tillie Olsen | Tell Me a Riddle | New World Writing | |
1962 | Katherine Anne Porter | Holiday | The Atlantic Monthly , December 1960
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1963 | Flannery O'Connor | Everything That Rises Must Converge | New World Writing | |
1964 | John Cheever | The Embarkment for Cythera | The New Yorker, November 3, 1962 | |
1965 | Flannery O'Connor | Revelation | The Sewanee Review, Spring 1964 | |
1966 | John Updike | The Bulgarian Poetess | The New Yorker, March 13, 1965 | [7] |
1967 | Joyce Carol Oates | In the Region of Ice | The Atlantic Monthly , August 1966
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1968 | Eudora Welty | The Demonstrators | The New Yorker, November 26, 1966 | |
1969 | Bernard Malamud | Man in the Drawer | The Atlantic Monthly , April 1968
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1970 | Robert Hemenway | The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles | The New Yorker, January 11, 1969 | |
1971 | Florence M. Hecht | Twin Bed Bridge | The Atlantic Monthly , May 1970
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1972 | John Batki | Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie | The New Yorker, March 20, 1971 | |
1973 | Joyce Carol Oates | The Dead | McCall's, July 1971 | |
1974 | Renata Adler | Brownstone | The New Yorker, January 27, 1973 | |
1975 | Harold Brodkey | A Story in an Almost Classical Mode | The New Yorker, September 17, 1973 | |
Cynthia Ozick | Usurpation (Other People's Stories) | Esquire, May 1974 | ||
1976 | Harold Brodkey | His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft | Esquire, August 1975 | |
1977 | Shirley Hazzard | A Long Story Short | The New Yorker, July 26, 1976 | |
Ella Leffland | Last Courtesies | Harper's Magazine, July 1976 | ||
1978 | Woody Allen | The Kugelmass Episode | The New Yorker, May 2, 1977 | |
1979 | Gordon Weaver | Getting Serious | The Sewanee Review, Fall 1977 | |
1980 | Saul Bellow | A Silver Dish | The New Yorker, September 25, 1978 | |
1981 | Cynthia Ozick | The Shawl | The New Yorker, May 26, 1980 | |
1982 | Susan Kenney | Facing Front | Epoch, Winter 1980 | |
1983 | Raymond Carver | A Small, Good Thing | Ploughshares | |
1984 | Cynthia Ozick | Rosa | The New Yorker, March 21, 1983 | |
1985 | Stuart Dybek | Hot Ice | Antaeus | |
Jane Smiley | Lily | The Atlantic Monthly
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1986 | Alice Walker | Kindred Spirits | Esquire, August 1985 | [8] |
1987 | Louise Erdrich | Fleur | Esquire, August 1986 | |
Joyce Johnson | The Children's Wing | Harper's Magazine, July 1986 | ||
1988 | Raymond Carver | Errand | The New Yorker, June 1, 1987 | |
1989 | Ernest J. Finney | Peacocks | The Sewanee Review, Winter 1988 | |
1990 | Leo E. Litwak | The Eleventh Edition | TriQuarterly, Winter 1989 | |
1991 | John Updike | A Sandstone Farmhouse | The New Yorker, June 11, 1990 | |
1992 | Cynthia Ozick | Puttermesser Paired | The New Yorker, October 8, 1990 | |
1993 | Thom Jones | The Pugilist at Rest | The New Yorker, December 2, 1991 | |
1994 | Alison Baker | Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight | The Atlantic Monthly , January 1993
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1995 | Cornelia Nixon | The Women Come and Go | New England Review, Spring 1994 | |
1996 | Stephen King | The Man in the Black Suit | The New Yorker, October 31, 1994 | |
1997 | Mary Gordon | City Life | Ploughshares | |
1998 | Lorrie Moore | People Like That Are the Only People Here | The New Yorker, January 27, 1997 | |
1999 | Peter Baida | A Nurse's Story | The Gettysburg Review | |
2000 | John Edgar Wideman | Weight | The Callaloo Journal
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2001 | Mary Swan | The Deep | The Malahat Review | |
2002 | Kevin Brockmeier | The Ceiling | McSweeney's |
Juror favorites (2003–2019)
Guest editor (2021–)
Year | Editor | Ref. |
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2021 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
2022 | Valeria Luiselli | [12] |
2023 | Lauren Groff |
See also
References
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