• called The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and the original collection was called Prize Stories 1919: The O. Henry Memorial Awards. The award was first presented...
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    Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he...
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  • Third Prize was awarded to William Fifield's "The Fisherman of Patzcuaro". Between 1934 and 1946, 25 writers had won 27 O. Henry Awards, including Irwin...
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    Federation (WWF, now WWE) in the mid to late 1990s under the ring name Henry O. Godwinn. He is also known for his appearances with World Championship...
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  • Rachel Kondo (category O. Henry Award winners)
    producer. Her short story "Girl of Few Seasons" was a finalist for the O. Henry Award. Alongside her husband Justin Marks, she is also an executive producer...
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  • volumes each of Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. The Bostons, Cooke's first collection of short stories (2001) won...
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    from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska" received an O. Henry Award in 2008. In 2016, he published his debut novel Private Citizens. His...
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  • literary journals prior to being collected, including three that won O. Henry Awards: "Greenleaf" (1957), "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (1963),...
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    Joyce Carol Oates (category O. Henry Award winners)
    Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities...
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    Deborah Eisenberg (category O. Henry Award winners)
    a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, both in 1987; and six O. Henry Awards, in 1986, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2006, and 2013. In 2007, Eisenberg was...
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  • Prize—a U.S. book award for short story collections—since its inception in 2004. He served as series editor of the O. Henry Awards for the 1997–2002 volumes...
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  • Fiction, and the 2024 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Her short story "Fish Stories" won the 2022 O. Henry Award. In a piece for Toronto Star discussing her...
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  • following year. Johnson continued writing short stories and won three more O. Henry Awards: for "Alexander to the Park" (1942), "The Glass Pigeon" (1943), and...
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    Book Award (Fiction), 1996 Lannan Literary Award (Fiction), 1996 Inclusion of "Here and There" in Prize Stories 1989: The O. Henry Awards Whiting Award, 1987...
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    Annie Proulx (category National Book Award winners)
    Mountain", O. Henry Awards O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories 1998 1998—"Brokeback Mountain", National Magazine Award 1999—"The Mud Below," O. Henry Awards: Prize...
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    George Saunders (category PEN/Malamud Award winners)
    Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997. His first story collection...
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  • famous writers in contemporary American literature. Along with the O. Henry Awards, Best American Short Stories is one of the two "best-known annual anthologies...
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  • Nancy Hale (section Awards)
    short-story writer. She received the O. Henry Award, a Benjamin Franklin magazine award, and the Henry H. Bellaman Foundation Award for fiction. Nancy Hale was...
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    and World War II. Pelley came to prominence as a writer, winning two O. Henry Awards and penning screenplays for Hollywood films. His 1929 essay "Seven...
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    Kay Boyle (category O. Henry Award winners)
    educator, and political activist. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and O. Henry Award winner. The granddaughter of a publisher, Boyle was born in St. Paul...
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  • O. Henry Awards Anthologies", "The Pushcart Prize Collection", and "The Best American Short Stories, 2000". She has received the Eliot Cades Awards in...
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    Drama Desk Award and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Sanders made his off-Broadway debut in a Shakespeare in the Park production of Henry V in 1976...
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    Nelson Algren (category National Book Award winners)
    three O. Henry Awards for his short story, "The Brother's House." The story was first published in Story magazine and was reprinted in an anthology of O. Henry...
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    Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is a winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA...
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  • Renata Adler (category O. Henry Award winners)
    "Brownstone" received first prize in the O. Henry Awards Best Short Stories of 1974. The same story was selected for the O. Henry Collection Best Short Stories of...
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  • many writing awards, such as the O. Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, and the North Carolina Award for Literature...
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    Stories (1986) "The Seasons" was reprinted in Prize Stories 1985: The O. Henry Awards. Those stories first appearing in literary journals are indicated....
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  • Kate Wheeler (novelist) (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
    Contest 1982 O. Henry Awards, for La Victoire 1983 Pushcart Prize, for Judgment 1992 The Best American Short Stories 1992 1993 O. Henry Awards, for Improving...
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  • 1997, for which it won the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 1998. Proulx won a third place O. Henry Award for the story in 1998. A slightly expanded...
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    T. C. Boyle (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
    Medal for Literature, best novel of the year, 57th annual awards, 1988 (World's End). O. Henry Award, 1989. "The Ape Lady in Retirement," from The Paris Review...
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