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Title: O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920

Author: Various

Release Date: March 25, 2004 [eBook #11721]

Language: English

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STORIES OF 1920***

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O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD PRIZE STORIES 1920

Chosen by the Society of Arts and Sciences

With an Introduction by Blanche Colton Williams

Author of "A Handbook on Story Writing,"
"Our Short Story Writers," Etc.

Associate Professor of English, Hunter College
of the City of New York.

Instructor in Story Writing, Columbia University
(Extension Teaching and Summer Session).

CONTENTS

EACH IN HIS GENERATION. By Maxwell Struthers Burt

"CONTACT!" By Frances Noyes Hart

THE CAMEL'S BACK. By F. Scott Fitzgerald

BREAK-NECK HILL. By Esther Forbes

BLACK ART AND AMBROSE. By Guy Gilpatric

THE JUDGMENT OF VULCAN. By Lee Foster Hartman

THE ARGOSIES. By Alexander Hull

ALMA MATER. By O. F. Lewis

SLOW POISON. By Alice Duer Miller

THE FACE IN THE WINDOW. By William Dudley Pelley

A MATTER OF LOYALTY. By Lawrence Perry

PROFESSOR TODD'S USED CAR. By L.H. Robbins

THE THING THEY LOVED. By "Marice Rutledge"

BUTTERFLIES. By "Rose Sidney"

NO FLOWERS. By Gordon Arthur Smith

FOOTFALLS. By Wilbur Daniel Steele

THE LAST ROOM OF ALL. By Stephen French Whitman

INTRODUCTION

O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD PRIZE STORIES 1919, in its introduction,
rendered a brief account of the origin of this monument to O.
Henry's genius. Founded in 1918 by the Society of Arts and Sciences,
through the initiative of Managing Director John F. Tucker, it took
the form of two annual prizes of $500 and $250 for, respectively,
the best and second-best stories written by Americans and published
in America.

The Committee of Award sifted the periodicals of 1919 and found
thirty-two which, in their opinion, were superior specimens of
short-story art. The prize-winners, determined in the manner set
forth, were Margaret Prescott Montague's "England to America"