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O. Henry Award

Index O. Henry Award

The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. [1]

180 relations: A. S. Byatt, Albert Maltz, Alexi Zentner, Alice Munro, Alice Walker, Alison Baker (writer), Amit Majmudar, Andrea Barrett, Andrew Sean Greer, Anne Leaton, Anthony Doerr, Barn Burning, Bernard Malamud, Blanche Colton Williams, Bomb (magazine), Callaloo (journal), Canada, Charles D'Ambrosio, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Cornelia Nixon, Cosmopolitan (magazine), Cynthia Ozick, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Deborah Eisenberg, Denis Johnson, Dina Nayeri, Dorothy Parker, Eddie Chuculate, Edison Marshall, Editing, Edward P. Jones, Elizabeth McCracken, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Elizabeth Tallent, Ella Leffland, Esquire (magazine), Eudora Welty, Everybody's Magazine, Fiona McFarlane, Flannery O'Connor, Frederic Tuten, Gordon Lish, Gordon Weaver, Graham Joyce, Granta, Ha Jin, Harold Brodkey, Harper's Magazine, Harris Downey, Harry Hansen (author), ..., Inez Haynes Irwin, Internet Archive, Irvin S. Cobb, Irwin Shaw, James Gould Cozzens, James Lasdun, James Tabor, Jane Smiley, Jean Stafford, Jim Shepard, John Batki, John Bell Clayton and Martha Clayton, John Burnside, John Cheever, John Edgar Wideman, John Irving, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Joyce Johnson, Judy Troy, Julian Leonard Street, Junot Díaz, Katherine Anne Porter, Kay Boyle, Kelly Link, Kevin Brockmeier, Larry Dark, Laura Furman, Laura van den Berg, Lawrence Sargent Hall, Leo E. Litwak, Lily Tuck, Lorrie Moore, Louis Paul, Louise Erdrich, Lynn Freed, Manuel Muñoz (writer), Margaret Prescott Montague, Marisa Silver, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Mark Haddon, Martha Gellhorn, Mary Gordon (writer), Mary Swan, Maxwell Struthers Burt, Mānoa (journal), McCall's, Michelle Huneven, Nadine Gordimer, New England Review, New World Writing, O. Henry, Ottessa Moshfegh, Paul Engle, Paul Theroux, Paul Yoon, Peter Baida, Peter Taylor (writer), Pictorial Review, Ploughshares, Random House, Raymond Carver, Redbook, Renata Adler, Richard Poirier, Roark Bradford, Roger Nash, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Saul Bellow, Scribner's Magazine, Sherman Alexie, Sherwood Anderson, Shirley Hazzard, Short story, Stephen King, Stephen Vincent Benét, Stuart Dybek, Subtropics (journal), Susan Kenney, Tell Me a Riddle, Terry Southern, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Scholar (magazine), The Atlantic, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Short Stories 1996, The Best American Short Stories 1998, The Best American Short Stories 1999, The Best American Short Stories 2002, The Best American Short Stories 2003, The Best American Short Stories 2004, The Best American Short Stories 2005, The Best American Short Stories 2006, The Best American Short Stories 2007, The Best American Short Stories 2008, The Ceiling, The Century Magazine, The Cimarron Review, The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Saturday Evening Post, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, Thom Jones, Thomas J. Mabry, Tillie Olsen, Tim O'Brien (author), Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Tin House, Transatlantic Review (1959–77), Truman Capote, United States, Ursula K. Le Guin, Viet D. Dinh, Vintage Books, W. R. Burnett, Wallace Stegner, Walter Duranty, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Wilbur Daniel Steele, William Faulkner, William Trevor, Woody Allen, Yiyun Li, Zoetrope: All-Story. Expand index (130 more) »

A. S. Byatt

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy HonFBA (née Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally as A. S. Byatt, is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner.

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Albert Maltz

Albert Maltz (October 28, 1908 – April 26, 1985) was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter.

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Alexi Zentner

Alexi Zentner (born in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian-American short story writer, and novelist.

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Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist.

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Alison Baker (writer)

Alison Baker (born 1953 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American short story writer.

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Amit Majmudar

Amit Majmudar is an American novelist and poet.

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Andrea Barrett

Andrea Barrett (born November 16, 1954) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer (born November 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Anne Leaton

Anne Leaton (born July 13, 1932 - January 25, 2016) is a novelist, short story writer, and poet whose works have been published in England and America and whose radio plays have been broadcast on the BBC.

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Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr (born October 27, 1973) is an American author of novels and short stories.

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Barn Burning

"Barn Burning" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner which first appeared in Harper's in June 1939 (pp. 86-96) and has since been widely anthologized.

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Bernard Malamud

Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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Blanche Colton Williams

Blanche Colton Williams (1879 – August 9, 1944) was an American author, editor, professor of English literature, and head of the English department at Hunter College.

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Bomb (magazine)

Bomb is a quarterly magazine edited by artists and writers.

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Callaloo (journal)

Callaloo, A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1976 by Charles Rowell, who remains its editor-in-chief.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Charles D'Ambrosio

Charles Anthony D'Ambrosio, Jr (born 1958) is an American short story writer and essayist.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (was born on 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist, writer of short stories, and nonfiction.

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Cornelia Nixon

Cornelia Nixon (born March 25, 1947) is a novelist, short-story writer, and teacher.

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Cosmopolitan (magazine)

Cosmopolitan is an international fashion magazine for women, which was formerly titled The Cosmopolitan. The magazine was first published and distributed in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine (since 1965).

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Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Shoshana Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.

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Daniyal Mueenuddin

Daniyal Mueenuddin (دانیال معین الدین) (born 1963) is a Pakistani-American author who writes in English.

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Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg (born November 20, 1945) is an American short-story writer, actress and teacher.

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Denis Johnson

Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American writer best known for his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007), which won the National Book Award for Fiction.

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Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri (born 1979) is an Iranian American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

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Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.

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Eddie Chuculate

Eddie Chuculate is an American fiction writer who is enrolled in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and of Cherokee descent.

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Edison Marshall

Edison Tesla Marshall (August 28, 1894 – October 29, 1967) was an American short story writer and novelist.

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Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information.

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Edward P. Jones

Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken (born 1966) is an American author.

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Elizabeth Stuckey-French

Elizabeth Stuckey-French is an American short story writer and novelist.

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Elizabeth Tallent

Elizabeth Tallent (born Elizabeth Ann Tallent, August 8, 1954 Washington, D.C.) is an American fiction writer, academic, and essayist.

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Ella Leffland

Ella Leffland (born November 25, 1931) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is an American men's magazine, published by the Hearst Corporation in the United States.

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Eudora Welty

Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South.

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Everybody's Magazine

Everybody's Magazine was an American magazine published from 1899 to 1929.

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Fiona McFarlane

Fiona McFarlane (born 1978) is an Australian author, best known for her book, The Night Guest and her collection of short stories, The High Places.

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Flannery O'Connor

Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist.

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Frederic Tuten

Frederic Tuten is an American novelist, short story writer and essayist.

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Gordon Lish

Gordon Lish (born February 11, 1934 in Hewlett, New York) is an American writer.

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Gordon Weaver

Gooby Weaver (born 1937) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Graham Joyce

Graham Joyce (22 October 1954 – 9 September 2014) was a British writer of speculative fiction and the recipient of numerous awards, including the O Henry Award and the World Fantasy Award, for both his novels and short stories.

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Granta

Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world.".

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Ha Jin

Xuefei Jin (born February 21, 1956) is a Chinese-American poet and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin (哈金).

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Harold Brodkey

Harold Brodkey (October 25, 1930 – January 26, 1996), born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American short-story writer and novelist.

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Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.

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Harris Downey

Harris Downey (born May 12, 1907 Baton Rouge, Louisiana - 1979) was an American short story writer, and novelist.

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Harry Hansen (author)

Harry Hansen (December 26, 1884 – January 3, 1977) was an American journalist, editor, literary critic and historian.

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Inez Haynes Irwin

Inez Haynes Irwin (March 2, 1873 – September 25, 1970) was an American feminist author, journalist, member of the National Women's Party, and president of the Authors Guild.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Irvin S. Cobb

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life.

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Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.

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James Gould Cozzens

James Gould Cozzens (August 19, 1903 – August 9, 1978) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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James Lasdun

James Lasdun (born 1958) is an English writer.

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James Tabor

James D. Tabor (born 1946 in Texas) is a Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he has taught since 1989 and served as Chair from 2004–14.

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Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist.

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Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford (July 1, 1915 – March 26, 1979) was an American short story writer and novelist, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970.

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Jim Shepard

Jim Shepard (born 1956) is an American novelist and short story writer, who teaches creative writing and film at Williams College.

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John Batki

John Batki is an American short story writer, poet, and translator.

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John Bell Clayton and Martha Clayton

John Bell Clayton II (c. 1907-1955) was a "prolific writer of short stories" who won an O. Henry Short Story Award in 1947.

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John Burnside

John Burnside (born 19 March 1955) is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline.

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John Cheever

John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American writer, professor emeritus at Brown University, and sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.

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John Irving

John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

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John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer.

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Joyce Johnson

Joyce Johnson (born 1935) is an American author of fiction and nonfiction who won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir Minor Characters about her relationship with Jack Kerouac.

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Judy Troy

Judy Troy (born 1951) is a Professor at Auburn University, as well as a short story writer and novelist.

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Julian Leonard Street

Julian Leonard Street (1879–1947) was an American author, born in Chicago.

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Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and fiction editor at Boston Review.

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Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist.

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Kay Boyle

Kay Boyle (February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992) was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist.

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Kelly Link

Kelly Link (born 1969) is an American editor and author of short stories.

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Kevin Brockmeier

Kevin John Brockmeier (born December 6, 1972) is an American writer of fantasy and literary fiction.

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Larry Dark

Larry Dark has been the director of The Story Prize—a U.S. book award for short story collections—since its inception in 2004.

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Laura Furman

Laura J. Furman (born 1945) is an American author best known for her role as series editor for the.

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Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg is an American writer.

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Lawrence Sargent Hall

Lawrence Sargent Hall (1915–1993) was an American author.

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Leo E. Litwak

Leo E. Litwak (born 1924, Detroit) is an American short story writer, and novelist.

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Lily Tuck

Lily Tuck (born October 10, 1938) is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction.

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Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore; January 13, 1957) is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories.

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Louis Paul

Leroi Placet, known by his pen name Louis Paul (c. 1902 – February 13, 1970), was an American short story writer, and novelist.

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Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings.

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Lynn Freed

Lynn Freed (born 18 July 1945, Durban, South Africa) is an author and academic known for her work as a novelist, essayist, and writer of short stories.

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Manuel Muñoz (writer)

Manuel Muñoz (born March 4, 1972 Dinuba, California) is an award-winning Mexican American novelist, short story writer, and professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

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Margaret Prescott Montague

Margaret Prescott (or Preston) Montague (29 November 1878 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia – 26 September 1955, Richmond, Virginia) was an American short story writer, and novelist.

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Marisa Silver

Marisa Silver (born April 23, 1960) is an American author, screenwriter and film director.

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953); accessed December 8, 2014.

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Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon (born 28 October 1962) is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003).

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Martha Gellhorn

Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8, 1908 – February 15, 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century.

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Mary Gordon (writer)

Mary Catherine Gordon (born December 8, 1949) is an American writer and the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College.

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Mary Swan

Mary Swan is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.

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Maxwell Struthers Burt

Maxwell Struthers Burt (October 18, 1882 Baltimore, Maryland – August 29, 1954, Jackson Hole, Wyoming), was an American novelist, poet, and short-story writer.

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Mānoa (journal)

Mānoa (subtitled A Pacific Journal of International Writing) is a literary journal that includes American and international fiction, poetry, artwork, interviews, and essays of current cultural or literary interest.

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McCall's

McCall's was a monthly American women's magazine, published by the McCall Corporation, that enjoyed great popularity through much of the 20th century, peaking at a readership of 8.4 million in the early 1960s.

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Michelle Huneven

Michelle Huneven (born August 14, 1953) is an American novelist and journalist.

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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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New England Review

The New England Review is a quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College.

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New World Writing

New World Writing was a paperback magazine, a literary anthology series published by New American Library's Mentor imprint from 1951 until 1960, then J. B. Lippincott & Co.'s Keystone from volume/issue 16 (1960) to the last volume, 22, in 1964.

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O. Henry

William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer.

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Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh is an American author and novelist.

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Paul Engle

Paul Engle (October 12, 1908 – March 22, 1991), noted American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright.

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Paul Theroux

Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975).

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Paul Yoon

Paul Yoon (born 1980 in New York City) is an American fiction writer.

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Peter Baida

Peter Baida (July 26, 1950 – December 14, 1999) was an American short story writer.

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Peter Taylor (writer)

Matthew Hillsman Taylor, Jr. (January 8, 1917 – November 2, 1994), known professionally as Peter Taylor, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright.

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Pictorial Review

The Pictorial Review was an American women's magazine published from 1899 to 1939.

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Ploughshares

Ploughshares is an American literary journal established in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Raymond Carver

Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short-story writer and poet.

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Redbook

Redbook is an American women's magazine published by the Hearst Corporation.

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Renata Adler

Renata Adler (born October 19, 1937) is an American author, journalist, and film critic.

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Richard Poirier

Richard Poirier (born Gloucester, Massachusetts, September 9, 1925, died New York City, August 15, 2009) was an American literary critic.

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Roark Bradford

Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford (August 21, 1896 Lauderdale County, Tennessee — November 13, 1948 New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American short story writer and novelist.

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Roger Nash

Roger Nash BA, MA, PhD (Exon) is a Canadian philosopher and poet.

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, (7 May 19273 April 2013) was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter.

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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer.

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Scribner's Magazine

Scribner's Magazine was an American periodical published by the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons from January 1887 to May 1939.

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Sherman Alexie

Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker.

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Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works.

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Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Stephen Vincent Benét

Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist.

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Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek (born April 10, 1942) is an American writer of fiction and poetry.

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Subtropics (journal)

Subtropics is an American literary journal based at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

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Susan Kenney

Susan McIlvaine Kenney (born April 28, 1941) is an American short story writer and novelist.

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Tell Me a Riddle

"Tell Me a Riddle" is a short story by Tillie Olsen, originally appearing in New World Writing in 1960 and subsequently published as the title story of a four-story collection in 1961.

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Terry Southern

Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style.

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The Alaska Quarterly Review

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The American Scholar (magazine)

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The Atlantic

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The Best American Short Stories

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The Best American Short Stories 1996

The Best American Short Stories 1996, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor John Edgar Wideman.

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The Best American Short Stories 1998

The Best American Short Stories 1998, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor Garrison Keillor.

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The Best American Short Stories 1999

The Best American Short Stories 1999, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor Amy Tan.

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The Best American Short Stories 2002

The Best American Short Stories 2002, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor Sue Miller.

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The Best American Short Stories 2003

The Best American Short Stories 2003, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor Walter Mosley.

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The Best American Short Stories 2004

The Best American Short Stories 2004, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor Lorrie Moore.

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The Best American Short Stories 2005

The Best American Short Stories 2005, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Michael Chabon.

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The Best American Short Stories 2006

The Best American Short Stories 2006, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Ann Patchett.

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The Best American Short Stories 2007

The Best American Short Stories 2007, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Stephen King.

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The Best American Short Stories 2008

The Best American Short Stories 2008, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Salman Rushdie.

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The Ceiling

The Ceiling is a short story by American writer Kevin Brockmeier that won the O. Henry Award in 2002.

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The Century Magazine

The Century Magazine was first published in the United States in 1881 by The Century Company of New York City, which had been bought in that year by Roswell Smith and renamed by him after the Century Association.

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The Cimarron Review

The Cimarron Review is a major American literary journal published quarterly by the Oklahoma State University.

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The Devil and Daniel Webster

"The Devil and Daniel Webster" is a short story by Stephen Vincent Benét.

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The Hudson Review

The Hudson Review is a quarterly journal of literature and the arts.

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The Kenyon Review

The Kenyon Review is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, US, home of Kenyon College.

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The New York Times

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The New Yorker

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The Paris Review

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The Saturday Evening Post

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The Sewanee Review

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The Southern Review

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The Yale Review

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Thom Jones

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Thomas J. Mabry

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Tillie Olsen

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Tim O'Brien (author)

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Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

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Tin House

Tin House is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City.

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Transatlantic Review (1959–77)

Transatlantic Review was a literary journal founded and edited by Joseph F. McCrindle in 1959, and published at first in Rome, then London and New York.

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Truman Capote

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United States

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Viet D. Dinh

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Vintage Books

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W. R. Burnett

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Wallace Stegner

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Walter Duranty

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Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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Wilbur Daniel Steele

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William Faulkner

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William Trevor

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Woody Allen

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Yiyun Li

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Zoetrope: All-Story

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