Prize Stories 1989 [antikvár]

Publisher's Note This volume is the sixty-ninth in the O. Henry Memorial Award series. In 1918, the Society of Arts and Sciences met to vote upon a monument to the master of the short story, O. Henry. They decided that this memorial should be in the form of two prizes for the best short stories published by American authors in American magazines during the year 1919. From this beginning, the memorial developed into an annual anthology of outstanding short stories by American authors, pubUshed, with the exception of the years 1952 and 1953, by Doubleday & Company, Inc. Blanche Colton Williams, one of the founders of the awards, was editor from 1919 to 1932; Harry Hansen from 1933 to 1940; Herschel Brickell from 1941 to 1951. The annual collection did not appear in 1952 and 1953, when the continuity of the series was interrupted by the death of Herschel Brickell. Paul Engle was editor from 1954 to 1959 with Hanson Martin co-editor in the years 1954 to 1960; Mary Stegner in 1960; Richard Poirier from 1961 to 1966, with assistance from and co-editorship with William Abrahams from 1964 to 1966. William Abrahams became editor of the series in 1967. In 1970 Doubleday published under Mr. Abrahams' editorship Fifty Years of the American Short Story, and in 1981, Prize Stories of the Seventies. Both are collections of stories selected from this series. The stories chosen for this volume were published in the pe-