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	O. Henry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862–June 5, 1910), whose clever use of twist endings in his stories popularized the term "O. Henry Ending".
		The O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships are held in May of each year in Austin, Texas, hosted by the city's O. Henry Museum.
		Henry is a household name in Russia, as his books enjoyed excellent translations and some of his stories were made into popular movies, the best known being, probably, "The Ransom of Red Chief".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/O._Henry (1663 words)

	O. Henry - MSN Encarta
		In 1896 O. Henry was charged with embezzling funds from the First National Bank of Austin, Texas, where he had worked from 1891 to 1894.
		During the last ten years of his life, O. Henry became one of the most popular writers in America, publishing over 500 short stories in dozens of widely read periodicals.
		In 1919 the O. Henry Memorial Awards for the best American short stories published each year were founded by the Society of Arts and Sciences.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576603/Henry_O.html (565 words)

	Bold Type: 2000 O. Henry Awards
		The series was instituted in 1918 as a tribute to the writer O. Henry, who died in 1910.
		Following O. Henry's success, short stories were published in a slew of weekly, biweekly, and monthly magazines, as well as some daily newspapers.
		Over the years, the consciousness of The O. Henry Awards has evolved in a more literary direction and the record of fiction chosen has come to more closely match the list of stories and authors contemporary readers of literary fiction would expect to be honored by annual roundups of the best stories.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/ohenry (1282 words)

	O. Henry Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The O. Henry Award is a yearly prize given to short stories of exceptional merit.
		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.
		The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 was dedicated to Mavis Gallant, a Canadian writer who lives in Paris, France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/O._Henry_Awards (1034 words)

	O Henry - Books and Biography
		Henry (1862-1910) was born William Sydney Porter in Greenboro, North Carolina.
		Henry died of cirrhosis of the liver on June 5, 1910, in New York.
		In 1918 the O. Henry Memorial Awards were established to be given annually to the best magazine stories, the winners and leading contenders to be published in an annual volume.
	www.readprint.com /author-45/O-Henry (1050 words)

	LSU Libraries -- Ready Reference Awards & Prizes
		It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
		It is awarded annually by the Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
		The PEN/Faulkner Award was founded by writers in 1980 to honor their peers and is now the largest juried award for fiction in the United States.
	www.lib.lsu.edu /ref/awards.html (623 words)

	Wintertimes 1999 - Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He wrote under the name O. Henry and composed classics such as "The Gift of the Magi," about a woman who sells her beloved hair to purchase a watch chain for her husband even as he sells his watch to purchase hair combs for her.
		Henry was admired for writing ironic stories with surprising endings.
		The O. Henry Awards have recognized some of the best writers in America: Truman Capote, Arthur Miller, Tobias Wolff and J.D. Salinger have all won at least once.
	www.newmassmedia.com /winter99/out7.html (440 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Prize Stories 1957: The O. Henry Awards, selected and edited by Paul Engle; The Best American ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		LOOKING over this year's O. Henry and Martha Foley collections of best short stories, one sees that it is not charity which has caused the editors to favor stories from the so-called...
		...LOOKING over this year's O. Henry and Martha Foley collections of best short stories, one sees that it is not charity which has caused the editors to favor stories from the so-called "little mags," for that is where, with one, perhaps two exceptions, the most interesting stories from both volumes come from...
		Henry-are about the Southern tradition, which is itself a minority culture offering definable mores or at least the memory of definable mores...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V24I2P85-1.htm (1930 words)

	Book Awards, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Resource Guide
		The Edgar Allan Poe Awards® (the "Edgars®") are named after the Mystery Writers Association's patron saint, Edgar Allan Poe, and are awarded to authors of distinguished work in various categories of the genre.
		The UK's largest annual literary award for a single novel and one of the most prestigious and influential awards in the literary calendar; its aim is to promote women writers to as wide a range of male and female readers as possible.
		The award, administered by the Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland, is for the best work of fiction written by an author who has lived in Great Britain or Ireland for over three years.
	www.clpgh.org /subject/books/awards.html (891 words)

	Poets & Writers Magazine
		The result was the establishment of the annual O. Henry Memorial Awards, given to the writers of what were deemed the two best short stories published by American magazines in the previous year.
		Furman, the first female O. Henry series editor since Mary Stegner held the position in 1960, has instituted changes that she hopes will enrich readers’ appreciation of the wealth of short fiction published each year in North America.
		Writers who have previously appeared in O. Henry volumes, such as T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tim O’ Brien, and Alice Munro, are represented in the collection, as are two writers who received the prize for their first stories to ever be accepted for publication—Douglas Light (“Three Days.
	www.pw.org /mag/0309/newsschaffert.htm (812 words)

	Bold Type: 1999 O. Henry Awards
		Prize Stories '99: The O. Henry Awards points up some of the many stories published in the past year that not only entertained us, but also broke new ground with ambition, technique, range of feeling, and gorgeous use of language (not to mention rude jokes and fucked-up vulnerability).
		Henry represents not a headstone, but a milestone: after 80 years of awarding honors to the finest short stories to reach print, O.
		Henry has offered Bold Type two of its most recent award-winning stories, information on the winners of years past, and an index of the magazines that publish short fiction today.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/ohenry/0999 (373 words)

	MPB - TV - Writers - Eudora Welty - Awards and Honors
		The award of $1,000 was presented at Mississippi College, Clinton.
		The Corrington Award from the Department of English at Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana.
		Distinguished Alumni Award from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
	www.etv.state.ms.us /television/series/writers/101-welty/writers-welty-awards.htm (693 words)

	Henry O. Fuchs Student Award
		The purpose of this award is to promote the education of engineering students in the area of fatigue technology.
		The award is made twice annually by the SAE Fatigue Design & Evaluation Committee and is granted to one graduate student.
		The award consists of a framed certificate, an honorarium, and a transportation allowance to attend the SAE Fatigue Design & Evaluation Committee meeting where the award is presented.
	students.sae.org /awdscholar/awards/fuchs (241 words)

	Awards and Bestsellers: Literature at Canadian Content
		International prize awarded each year by Pacific Rim Voices, for fiction and nonfiction books that contribute to understanding and cooperation among the peoples and nations of the Pacific Rim and South Asia.
		Awarded for an outstanding body of work 'in an ideal direction'.
		Awarded by the Mystery Writers of America, for distinguished work in the mystery genre - novels, television, and motion pictures.
	www.canadiancontent.net /dir/Top/Arts/Literature/Awards_and_Bestsellers (1133 words)

	O Henry
		Typical for O. Henry's stories is a twist of plot which turns on an ironic or coincidental circumstance.
		Henry was born William Sydney Porter in Greenboro, North Carolina.
		Henry's humorous, energetic style shows the influence of Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.123 (1131 words)

	Powell's Books - The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 by Laura Furman
		Since its establishment in 1919, the O. Henry Prize stories collection has offered an exciting selection of the best stories published in hundreds of literary magazines every year.
		The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 also contains brief essays from each of the three distinguished judges on their favorite story, and comments from the prize-winning writers on what inspired their stories.
		There is nothing like the ever-rich, surprising and original O Henry collection for enjoying the contemporary short story.
	powells.com /biblio/1-1400031311-4 (452 words)

	Wideman receives double honors
		The story "Weight" (which originally appeared in Callaloo) was chosen for an O. Henry Award from among thousands of stories published in America and Canada during 1999.
		It was named the best story by a distinguished panel of judges and will be included in the annual O. Henry Award collection published this fall.
		This ceremony will also celebrate the 80th anniversary of the O. Henry Awards and will feature a reading by Wideman and the second and third place O. Henry winners.
	www.umass.edu /pubaffs/publications/chronicle/archives/00/03-10/wideman24.html (435 words)

	CTV.ca \| Ontario short story writer wins first prize in O. Henry Awards
		TORONTO - A library worker from Ontario has joined the ranks of authors such as Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates and John Updike by winning first prize in the prestigious O. Henry Awards, among the top prizes for literature in North America.
		The O. Henry awards are given each year to the best short fiction by Canadian and American authors published in Canadian and American magazines.
		All of the 3,000 or so stories published over the year are whittled down to about two dozen, which are then published together in one volume, called Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards collection.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1025062928985_20472128 (283 words)

	CADwire.net - Directory > Arts > Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		BCALA Literary Awards - The Black Caucus of the ALA presents several awards each year for works relating to the African diaspora - fiction and non-fiction.
		The Dilys Award - Presented by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association for the year's favorite mystery, as chosen by the IMBA membership.
		The Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Awarded by the Mystery Writers of America, for distinguished work in the mystery genre - novels, television, and motion pictures.
	cadwire.net /directory/dir.asp?/Arts/Literature/Awards_and_Bestsellers (1105 words)

	Alibris: Awards
		Using Darwin's "survival of the fittest" concept to trumpet triumphs of human ineptitude, this collection of absurd news vignettes recounts colossal errors in judgment that led to death--a process the editor defends for its effectiveness in removing morons from the gene pool.
		Presenting a superb collection of 20 inventive, full-bodied works of fiction, this is the 80th anniversary edition of "the nation's most prestigious awards for the short story" ("The Atlantic Monthly").
		This year's O. Henry Award winners, while continuing the rich traditions of the past, have been chosen from more than 2,000 stories published in America and Canada--a superb assemblage of varied, full-bodied fictional creations, selected by the 1997 trio of jurors: Louise Erdrich, Thom Jones, and David Foster Wallace.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Awards (1187 words)

	FSU Professor wins top berth in O'Henry Prize Stories 2005 Anthology
		"The English department is extremely proud of Elizabeth's accomplishment in winning an O. Henry Award for her story originally published in "The Atlantic." Like the rest of her fiction, this story seduces the reader with its apparent quaintness, then startles with insights that cut to the heart," said Hunt Hawkins, the department's chair.
		Stuckey-French and her fellow O. Henry Prize Stories authors were formally recognized during a Jan. 29 ceremony in New York City.
		Series editor Laura Fuhrman selected Stuckey-French's story for the 85th edition of the anthology, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo ("Empire Falls"), one of three acclaimed writers on the O. Henry Prize jury, chose it as his favorite from among the twenty stories in the 2005 collection.
	www.fsu.edu /news/2005/03/21/o.henry (506 words)

	O. Henry O Henry
		Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), whose clever use of twist endings in his stories popularized the term "O. Henry Ending".
		Other sources say that the name was derived from his calling "Oh Henry!" after the family cat, Henry.
		The boy turns out to be so bratty and obnoxious that the desperate men ultimately pay the boy's father two hundred and fifty dollars to take him back.
	www.newenglandexplorer.com /ohenry.htm (1037 words)

	AddALL.com - Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards
		Established in 1918 as a memorial to O. Henry, this annual literary tradition has presented a remarkable offering of stories over its seventy-seven-year history.
		Henry first-prize winners have included Dorothy Parker, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, John Cheever, John Updike, and Cynthia Ozick, as well as some lesser-known writers such as Alison Baker and Cornelia Nixon.
		Many talented writers who were unknown when first chosen for an O. Henry Award later went on to become seminal voices of contemporary American fiction.
	www.addall.com /detail/0385489587.html (166 words)

	Cornell News: Epoch honored (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		These works appeared in different editions of Epoch from late 1995 to late 1996 and were chosen from more than 2,500 stories in 210 U.S. and Canadian magazines, said Larry Dark, series editor of the O. Henry collection, which has been published by Doubleday with one interruption since 1919.
		"This certainly isn't the first time Epoch has been represented in the O. Henry collection, but it is unusual for us to have this many stories," said Michael Koch, editor of Epoch and a Cornell lecturer in English.
		He noted that in addition to its inclusion in the O. Henry collection, Epoch recently learned that two of its entries will appear in another important short-story collection, New Stories from the South, 1997, published by Algonquin Press.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/March97/Epoch.html (403 words)

	Amazon.com: Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards (Prize Stories (O Henry Awards)): Books: Larry Dark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Some readers anxiously monitor each year's O. Henry anthology like doctors taking vital signs at a bedside, looking for clues to the current state of the American short story.
		It is somewhat disappointing that the anthology's Magazine Award again went to the obvious powerhouse, the New Yorker, when the Gettysburg Review, with two sharp stories, seemed a worthy contender.
		I've found the O. Henry Awards series to be a pretty uneven collection of stories, but still one i eagerly await each year, because in each volume you find several good stories, and one or two gems.
	www.amazon.com /Prize-Stories-1999-Henry-Awards/dp/0385493584 (1847 words)

	collectedstories: news: The Story Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		January 15, 2004, Larry Dark, well known for serving as series editor of the annual Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards collections from 1997 to 2002, announced The Story Prize, a newly established annual book award backed by a private donor.
		The prize of $20,000 to an author of an original book-length work of short fiction is to be the richest annual book award in the United States.
		Collections published in 2004 will first be considered, with three finalists announced in December and a winner presented at an awards ceremony and reading in January of 2005.
	collectedstories.com /files/storyteller/storyprize.html (298 words)

	Powell's Books - The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006: The Best Stories of the Year (Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards) by ...
		A radiant reflection of contemporary fiction at its best, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 features stories from locales as diverse as Russia, Zimbabwe, and the rural American South.
		Series editor Laura Furman considered thousands of stories in hundreds of literary magazines before selecting the winners, which are accompanied here by short essays from each of the three eminent jurors on his or her favorite story, as well as observations from all twenty prize winners on what inspired them.
		Most of the prize stories turn on romance: in Alice Munro's 'Passion' (already published in her collection Runaway), a Canadian waitress falls for her fianc's alcoholic brother when he mends her cut foot at a Thanksgiving family dinner.
	www.powells.com /biblio/7-1400095395-1 (564 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards by Larry Dark
		Established early in the last century as a memorial to O. Henry, throughout its history this annual collection has consistently offered a remarkable sampling of contemporary short stories.
		Each year, stories are chosen from large and small literary magazines, and a panel of distinguished writers is enlisted to award top prizes.
		And in celebration of this distinguished literary form, Prize Stories 2001 a Special Award for Continuing Achievement is presented to Alice Munro.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook2621.htm (731 words)

	Short story anthology includes writing of New Mexico State University professor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		New Mexico State University English professor Toni Nelson’s short story, “Female Trouble,” is included in “Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, 2001,” an annual anthology of short stories collected from magazines across the country.
		The O. Henry Awards were instituted in 1918, as a tribute to the writer O.
		CUTLINE: New Mexico State University English professor Toni Nelson’s short story, “Female Trouble,” is included in “Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, 2001,” an annual anthology of short stories collected from magazines across the country.
	www.nmsu.edu /General/ucomm/public_html/Releases/2002/January2002/eng_ohenry.html (193 words)

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