First-prize stories 1919-1966
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Contains: 1919: England to America / Margaret Prescott Montague 1920: Each in his generation / Maxwell Struthers Burt 1921: The heart of little Shikara / Edison Marshall 1922: Snake doctor / Irvin S. Cobb 1923: Prelude / Edgar Valentine Smith 1924: The spring flight / Inez Haynes Irwin 1925: Mr. Bisbee's princess / Julian Street 1926: Bubbles / Wilbur Daniel Steele 1927: Child of god / Roark Bradford 1926: The parrot / Walter Duranty 1929: Big blonde / Dorothy Parker 1930: Dressing-up / W.R. Burnett 1931: Can't cross Jordan by myself / Wilbur Daniel Steele 1932: An end to dreams / Stephen Vincent Benet 1933: Gal young un / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1934: No more trouble for Jedwick / Louise Paul 1935: The white horses of Vienna / Kay Boyle 1936: Total stranger / James Gould Cozzens 1937: The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benet 1938: The happiest man on earth / Albert Maltz 1939: [Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W) / William Faulkner 1940: Freedom's a hard-bought thing / Stephen Vincent Benet 1941: Defeat / Kay Boyle 1942: The wide net / Eudora Welty 1943: Livvie is back / Eudora Welty 1944: Walking wounded / Irwin Shaw 1945: The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark 1946: Bird song / John Mayo Goss 1947: The white circle / John Bell Clayton 1948: Shut a final door / Truman Capote 1949: A courtship / WIlliam Faulkner 1950: The blue-winged teal / Wallace Stegner 1951: The hunters / Harris Downey 1954: The Indian feather / Thomas Mabry 1955: In the zoo / Jean Stafford 1956: The country husband / John Cheever 1957: Greenleaf / Flannery O'Connor 1958: In sickness as in health / Martha Gellhorn 1959: Venus, Cupid, folly and time / Peter Taylor 1960: The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall 1961: Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen 1962: Holiday / Katherine Anne Porter 1963: Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor 1964: The embarkment of Cythera / John Cheever 1965: Revelation / Flannery O'Connor 1966: The Bulgarian poetess / John Updike.
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First Published
1966
Pages
735 pages
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2
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Doubleday & Co
Language
ENG
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