Name: O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
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ISBN: 978-1414295732

Literature & Fiction | Short Stories & Anthology

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921

Edited by Blanche Colton Williams 13 Mar, 2020

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Eight years after O. Henry's death, in April 1918, a committee decided to award prizes in his name for short-story writers, and it formed the Committee of Award to read the short stories published in a year and to pick the winners. The series editor ... Read more

Eight years after O. Henry's death, in April 1918, a committee decided to award prizes in his name for short-story writers, and it formed the Committee of Award to read the short stories published in a year and to pick the winners. 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. In the words of Blanche Colton Williams (1879-1944), the first of the nine series editors, the memorial intended to "strengthen the art of the short story and to stimulate younger authors." Less