O. HENRY AWARD

'The O. Henry Prize' is a yearly prize given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American master of the form, O. Henry. The award was first presented in 1919. ''The O. Henry Prize Stories'' is an annual collection of the year's twenty best stories published in U.S. and Canadian magazines, written in the English language. As of 2003, the series editor chooses twenty short stories, each one an O. Henry Prize Story. All stories originally written in the English language and published in an American or Canadian periodical are eligible for consideration. Three jurors are appointed annually. The jurors receive the twenty prize stories in manuscript form, with no identification of author or publication. Each juror, acting independently, chooses a short story of special interest and merit, and comments on that story. The goal of The O. Henry Prize Stories remains to strengthen the art of the short story. Starting in 2003, ''The O. Henry Prize Stories'' is dedicated to a writer who has made a major contribution to the art of the short story. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 was dedicated to Sherwood Anderson, (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) a U.S. short-story writer. Jurors for 2007 were Charles D'Ambrosio, Lily Tuck and Ursula K. Le Guin.
The current series editor for ''The O. Henry Prize Stories'' is Laura Furman.
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Contents

Juror favorites, first-prize winners

See also

References

External link

Juror favorites, first-prize winners

For more information or complete lists of yearly winners, log on to the O. Henry Prize Stories website.^[1]

2007	★ Eddie Chuculate: "Galveston Bay, 1826" in ''Manoa'', Vol 16., No. 2, Winter 2004 http://www.hawaii.edu/mjournal/ ★ William Trevor: "The Room" in ''The New Yorker'', May 16, 2005
2006	★ Edward P. Jones: "Old Boys, Old Girls" in ''The New Yorker'', May 3, 2004 ★ Deborah Eisenberg: "Window" in ''Tin House'', Issue 19, Spring 2004 ★ Alice Munro: "Passion" in ''The New Yorker'', March 22, 2004
2005	★ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: "Refuge in London" in ''Zoetrope'', Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter 2003 ★ Sherman Alexie: "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" in ''The New Yorker'', April 21, 2003 ★ Elizabeth Stuckey-French: "Mudlavia" in ''The Atlantic Monthly'', Sept. 2003
2004	★ No edition
2003	★ Denis Johnson: "Train Dreams" in ''The Paris Review'', Summer 2002 ★ A. S. Byatt: "The Thing in the Forest" in ''The New Yorker'', June 3, 2002
2002	★ Kevin Brockmeier: "The Ceiling” in ''McSweeney's'', No. 7
2001	★ Mary Swan: "The Deep” in ''The Malahat Review'', No. 131
2000	★ John Edgar Wideman: "Weight” in ''The Callaloo Journal'', Vol. 22, No. 3
1999	★ Peter Baida: "A Nurse's Story” in ''The Gettysburg Review'', Vol. 13, No. 3
1998	★ Lorrie Moore: "People Like That Are the Only People Here” in ''The New Yorker'', January 27, 1997
1997	★ Mary Gordon: "City Life” in ''Ploughshares'', Vol. 22, No. 1
1996	★ Stephen King: "The Man in the Black Suit” in ''The New Yorker'', October 31, 1994
1995	★ Cornelia Nixon: "The Women Come and Go” in ''New England Review'', Spring 1994
1994	★ Alison Baker: "Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight” in ''The Atlantic Monthly'', January 1993
1993	★ Thom Jones: "The Pugilist at Rest” in ''The New Yorker'', December 2, 1991
1992	★ Cynthia Ozick: "Puttermesser Paired” in ''The New Yorker'', October 8, 1990
1991	★ John Updike: "A Sandstone Farmhouse” in ''The New Yorker'', June 11, 1990
1990	★ Leo E. Litwak: "The Eleventh Edition” in ''TriQuarterly'', No. 74, Winter 1989
1989	★ Ernest J. Finney: "Peacocks” in ''The Sewanee Review'', Winter 1988
1988	★ Raymond Carver: "Errand” in ''The New Yorker'', June 1, 1987
1987	★ Louise Erdrich: "Fleur” in ''Esquire'', August 1986 ★ Joyce Johnson: "The Children's Wing” in ''Harper's Magazine'', July 1986
1986	★ Alice Walker: "Kindred Spirits” in ''Esquire'', August 1985
1985	★ Stuart Dybek: "Hot Ice” in ''Antaeus'' ★ Jane Smiley: "Lily” in ''The Atlantic Monthly''
1984	★ Cynthia Ozick: "Rosa” in ''The New Yorker'', March 21, 1983 ★ Gordon Lish: "For Jerome--with Love and Kisses" in "The Antioch Review", Summer 1983, 1984
1983	★ Raymond Carver: "A Small, Good Thing” in ''Ploughshares'', Vol. 8, Nos. 2 & 3
1982	★ Susan Kenney: "Facing Front” in ''Epoch'', Winter 1980
1981	★ Cynthia Ozick: "The Shawl” in ''The New Yorker'', May 26, 1980
1980	★ Saul Bellow: "A Silver Dish” in ''The New Yorker'', September 25, 1978
1979	★ Gordon Weaver: "Getting Serious” in ''The Sewanee Review'', Fall 1977 ★ Anne Leaton: "The Passion of Marco Z" in ''Transatlantic Review'', 55/56
1978	★ Woody Allen: "The Kugelmass Episode” in ''The New Yorker'', May 2, 1977
1977	★ Shirley Hazzard: "A Long Story Short” in ''The New Yorker'', July 26, 1976 ★ Ella Leffland: "Last Courtesies” in ''Harper's Magazine'', July 1976
1976	★ Harold Brodkey: "His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft” in ''Esquire'', August 1975
1975	★ Harold Brodkey: "A Story in an Almost Classical Mode” in ''The New Yorker'', September 17, 1973 ★ Cynthia Ozick: "Usurpation (Other People's Stories)” in ''Esquire'', May 1974
1974	★ Renata Adler: "Brownstone” in ''The New Yorker'', January 27, 1973
1973	★ Joyce Carol Oates: "The Dead” in ''McCall's'', July 1971
1972	★ John Batki: "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie” in ''The New Yorker'', March 20, 1971
1971	★ Florence M Hecht: "Twin Bed Bridge” in ''The Atlantic Monthly'', May 1970
1970	★ Robert Hemenway: "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles” in ''The New Yorker'', January 11, 1969
1969	★ Bernard Malamud: "Man in the Drawer” in ''The Atlantic Monthly'', April 1968
1968	★ Eudora Welty: "The Demonstrators” in ''The New Yorker'', November 26, 1966
1967	★ Joyce Carol Oates: "In the Region of Ice” in ''The Atlantic Monthly'', August 1966
1966	★ John Updike: "The Bulgarian Poetess” in ''The New Yorker'', March 13, 1965
1965	★ Flannery O'Connor: "Revelation” in ''The Sewanee Review'', Spring 1964
1964	★ John Cheever: "The Embarkment for Cythera” in ''The New Yorker'', November 3, 1962
1963	★ Flannery O'Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge” in ''New World Writing''
1962	★ Katherine Anne Porter: "Holiday” in ''The Atlantic Monthly'', December 1960
1961	★ Tillie Olsen: "Tell Me a Riddle” in ''New World Writing'', No. 16
1960	★ Lawrence Sargent Hall: "The Ledge” in ''The Hudson Review'', Winter, 1958-59
1959	★ Peter Taylor: "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” in ''The Kenyon Review''
1958	★ Martha Gellhorn: "In Sickness as in Health” in ''The Atlantic Monthly''
1957	★ Flannery O'Connor: "Greenleaf” in ''The Kenyon Review''
1956	★ John Cheever: "The Country Husband” in ''The New Yorker''
1955	★ Jean Stafford: "In the Zoo” in ''The New Yorker''
1954	★ Thomas Mabry: "The Indian Feather” in ''The Sewanee Review''
1951	★ Harris Downey: "The Hunters” in ''Epoch''
1950	★ Wallace Stegner: "The Blue-Winged Teal” in ''Harper's Magazine''
1949	★ William Faulkner: "A Courtship” in ''The Sewanee Review''
1948	★ Truman Capote: "Shut a Final Door” in ''The Atlantic Monthly''
1947	★ John Bell Clayton: "The White Circle” in ''Harper's Magazine''
1946	★ John Mayo Goss: "Bird Song” in ''The Atlantic Monthly''
1945	★ Walter Van Tilburg Clark: "The Wind and the Snow of Winter” in ''The Yale Review''
1944	★ Irwin Shaw: "Walking Wounded” in ''The New Yorker''
1943	★ Eudora Welty: "Livvie is Back” in ''The Atlantic Monthly''
1942	★ Eudora Welty: "The Wide Net” in ''Harper's Magazine''
1941	★ Kay Boyle: "Defeat” in ''The New Yorker''
1940	★ Stephen Vincent Benét: "Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing” in ''The Saturday Evening Post''
1939	★ William Faulkner: "Barn Burning” in ''Harper's Magazine''
1938	★ Albert Maltz: "The Happiest Man on Earth” in ''Harper's Magazine''
1937	★ Stephen Vincent Benét: "The Devil and Daniel Webster” in ''The Saturday Evening Post''
1936	★ James Gould Cozzens: "Total Stranger” in ''The Saturday Evening Post'', February 15, 1936
1935	★ Kay Boyle: "The White Horses of Vienna” in ''Harper's Magazine''
1934	★ Louis Paul: "No More Trouble for Jedwick” in ''Esquire''
1933	★ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "Gal Young Un” in ''Harper's Magazine'', June & July 1932
1932	★ Stephen Vincent Benét: "An End to Dreams” in ''Pictorial Review'', February 1932
1931	★ Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Can't Cross Jordan by Myself” in ''Pictorial Review''
1930	★ W.R. Burnett: "Dressing-Up” in ''Harper's Magazine'', November 1929 ★ William H. John: "Neither Jew nor Greek” in ''Century Magazine'', August 1929
1929	★ Dorothy Parker: "Big Blonde” in ''Bookman Magazine'', February 1929
1928	★ Walter Duranty: "The Parrot” in ''Redbook'', March 1928
1927	★ Roarke Bradford: "Child of God” in ''Harper's Magazine'', April 1927
1926	★ Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Bubbles” in ''Harper's Magazine''
1925	★ Julian Street: "Mr. Bisbee's Princess” in ''Redbook'', May 1925
1924	★ Inez Haynes Irwin: "The Spring Flight” in ''McCall's'', June 1924
1923	★ Edgar Valentine Smith: "Prelude” in ''Harper's Magazine'', May 1923
1922	★ Irvin S. Cobb: "Snake Doctor” in ''Cosmopolitan'', November 1922
1921	★ Edison Marshall: "The Heart of Little Shikara” in ''Everybody's Magazine'', January 1921
1920	★ Maxwell Struthers Burt: "Each in His Generation” in ''Scribner's Magazine'', July 1920
1919	★ Margaret Prescott Montague: "England to America” in ''The Atlantic Monthly'', September 1918

See also

★ O. Henry Prize Stories 2007

References

1. O. Henry Prize Stories website

External link

★ Complete list of winners 1919-1999