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O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1941 ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., November 1941, xix+330pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     23rd O. Henry collection. Covers the period July 1940 to June 1941. vii · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in 3 · Defeat · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker May 17 1941; first prize; war story. 17 · A Worn Path · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1941; second prize; elderly Southern black woman’s life. 31 · Eighteenth Summer · Hallie Southgate Abbett · ss Story #88, March/April 1941; third prize; that crazy younger generation. 49 · The Visit · Andy Logan · ss Swarthmore Dodo 1940; best first-published story; vet returned from China has trouble back in USA. 61 · Hello, Tib · Conrad Aiken · ss Mademoiselle 1941; incident with a cat provokes regrets. 71 · A Bottle of Milk for Mother · Nelson Algren · ss The Southern Review Spring 1941, as “Biceps”; gangs in Chicago. 93 · Retreat · Sally Benson · ss The New Yorker October 19 1940; events at a sanitarium. 105 · I’m Going to Asia · John Cheever · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2741, September 1 1940; around the family hearth as war looms. 113 · Hook · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · nv The Atlantic Monthly August 1940; life from the POV of a hawk. 139 · Seven Boys Take a Hill · David Cornel De Jong · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review 1941; youthful doings of boys on holiday. 155 · The Old People [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine September 1940; doin’s in Yoknapatawpha. 173 · The Snow Goose · Paul Gallico · nv The Saturday Evening Post November 9 1940 197 · Those Are As Brothers · Nancy Hale · ss Mademoiselle May 1941; about a Jewish refugee in Connecticut. 213 · I’d Give It All Up for Tahiti · Paul Kunasz · ss Story #85, September/October 1940; reveries of a bomber pilot. 223 · Afternoon in the Jungle · Albert Maltz · ss The New Yorker January 11 1941; a New York kid has war fantasies. 235 · Caput Mortuum · Edita Morris · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2752, June 1941; daughter recalls weird parents. 247 · My Friend Flicka [Ken McLaughlin & Flicka] · Mary O’Hara · nv Story #87, January/February 1941; basis for famous film. 273 · The Conqueror · Vincent Sheean · ss Redbook Magazine June 1941; war story. 289 · The Proud Walkers · James Still · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 10 1941; some Southern regionalism. 307 · My Pigeon Pair · Dorothy Thomas · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1941; working girl struggles. 323 · Appendix · [uncredited] · ms

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1942 ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., November 1942, xvii+356pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Covers the period July 1941 to June 1942. vii · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in 3 · The Wide Net · Eudora Welty · nv Harper’s Magazine May 1942; first prize. 33 · Two Rivers · Wallace Stegner · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1942; second prize. 51 · Windwagon Smith · Wilbur L. Schramm · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1941; third prize. 75 · A Long Way to Go · Jeanne E. Wylie · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1941; best first-published story. 91 · Their Name Is Macaroni · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker January 3 1942 105 · The Portable Phonograph · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Spring 1941 117 · An Interval Like This · Robert Gorham Davis · ss The New Yorker April 25 1942 127 · Snow-on-the-Mountain · David Cornel De Jong · ss Harper’s Bazaar May 1942 139 · Two Soldiers · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 28 1942 161 · The Dear Little Doves · Eleanor Green · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1941 171 · Sunday—1913 · Nancy Hale · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2753, July 1941 195 · The Coming of Age · Clare Jaynes · ss Story #93, January/February 1942 207 · Alexander to the Park · Josephine Johnson · ss Harper’s Bazaar 219 · The Workmanship Has to Be Wasted · Alexander Laing · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1942 231 · The Jockey · Carson McCullers · ss The New Yorker August 23 1941 241 · Yankee Odyssey · John Rogers Shuman · ss The Southern Review Summer 1941 259 · How Edith McGillcuddy Met R.L. Stevenson · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1941 275 · The Yodeler · Alison Stuart · nv Harper’s Bazaar 301 · Feathers · Richard Sullivan · ss Mademoiselle 1942 315 · Basket Carry · Jerome Weidman · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1941 333 · Hunger · Marjorie Worthington · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2755, September 1 1941 349 · Appendix · [uncredited] · ms

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1943 ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1943, xxv+319pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition. Covers the period July 1942 to June 1943. ix · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in 3 · Livvie Is Back · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1942; first prize. 19 · The Knot Hole · Dorothy Canfield · nv The Yale Review Spring 1943; second prize. 43 · The Fishermen of Patzcuaro · William Fifield · ss Story #99, January/February 1943; third prize. 63 · The Little Black Boys · Clara Laidlaw · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1942; best first-published story. 79 · The Canals of Mars · Kay Boyle · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1943 91 · Pigeons en Casserole · Bessie Breuer · ss The New Yorker June 20 1942 107 · The Enemy · Pearl Buck · nv Harper’s Magazine November 1942 129 · The Ascent of Ariel Goodbody · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review December 1942 143 · The Unfaithful · Whitfield Cook · ss The American Mercury September 1942 155 · Standby · Sarah Grinnell · ss Harper’s Bazaar 167 · Black Boy’s Good Time · Elmer Grossberg · ss Esquire November 1942 181 · Who Lived and Died Believing · Nancy Hale · nv Harper’s Bazaar September 1942 203 · The Glass Pigeon · Josephine Johnson · ss Harper’s Bazaar 215 · Blinker Was a Good Dog · Ben Hur Lampman · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1943 223 · A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud · Carson McCullers · ss Harper’s Bazaar November 1942 235 · Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing at All in the World · William Saroyan · ss Harper’s Bazaar July 1942 245 · White for the Living · Margarita G. Smith · ss Mademoiselle 1943 253 · “She Shall Have Music” · Austin Strong · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1942 265 · Death and My Uncle Felix · Alison Stuart · ss Mademoiselle October 1942 277 · The Cane in the Corridor · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker January 2 1943 285 · The Old She ’Gator · Peggy Von Der Goltz · ss Story #99, January/February 1943 295 · Pecos Bill and the Willful Coyote · William C. White · ss Story #96, July/August 1942 313 · Appendix · [uncredited] · ms

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1944 ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., October 1944, xix+268pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Covers the period July 1943 to June 1944. ix · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in 1 · Walking Wounded · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker May 13 1944; first prize. 19 · Home Is a Place · Bessie Breuer · ss Harper’s Bazaar September 1943; second prize. 29 · The Stagecoach · Griffith Beems · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1944; third prize. 42 · Health Card · Frank G. Yerby · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1944; best first-published story. 52 · The Buck in the Hills · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss Rocky Mountain Review Spring/Summer 1943 63 · Like a Field Mouse Over the Heart · Elizabeth Eastman · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1943 83 · Soldier of the Republic · Morton Fineman · ss Harper’s Bazaar 91 · Strike up a Stirring Music · Berry Fleming · ss The Yale Review Summer 1943 100 · That’s My Brother · Marjorie Hope · ss Mademoiselle 1944 109 · Night Flight · Josephine W. Johnson · ss Harper’s Magazine February 1944 116 · What a Darling Little Boy! · Ruth Adams Knight · ss The American Mercury October 1943 124 · The Fur Coat · George Loveridge · ss The American Mercury February 1944 135 · Maine · Margaret Osborn · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1944 151 · Lions, Harts, Leaping Does · J. F. Powers · nv Accent Autumn 1943 176 · Quitter · Marianne Roane · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1944 183 · All Souls’ · Gladys Schmitt · ss Collier’s November 6 1943 197 · Blockbuster · Mark Schorer · ss Mademoiselle 1944 205 · Sunday Liberty · Alison Stuart · ss Mademoiselle 1944 214 · Raziya · Christine Weston · ss Tomorrow February 1944 225 · The Pleasures of Travel · Wendell Wilcox · ss The New Yorker November 13 1943 234 · Old James · Marguerite Young · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1944 251 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bg ; despite the title this contains biographical sketches of the authors. 263 · Appendix · [uncredited] · ms

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1945 ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., September 1945, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories] · The Wind and the Snow of Winter · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Winter 1945; first prize. · Gunners’ Passage · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker July 22 1944; second prize. · Old Bill Bent to Drink · Ben Hur Lampman · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1945; third prize. · Bury Your Own Dead · Bessie Breuer · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1945 · Flesh and Blood · Laurence Critchell · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1945 · Long Shadow on the Lawn · Mary Deasy · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 1945 · Burial in the Desert · Edward Fenton · ss Harper’s Bazaar October 1944 · Understand What I Mean? · Bill Gerry · ss The Yale Review Autumn 1944 · War Front: Louisiana · Ethel Edison Gordon · ss Harper’s Bazaar · The People on the Roller Coaster · Elizabeth Hardwick · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Review · The New Kid · Murray Heyert · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1944 · Monday at Six · Catherine Hubbell · ss Charm 1945 · The Sand Castle · Mary Lavin · ss The Yale Review Summer 1944 · The Thousand-Yard Stare · Hansford Martin · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1944 · A Piece of Bread · Frances Gray Patton · ss The Kenyon Review Autumn 1944 · Call a Solemn Assembly · Ruth Portugal · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1944 · The Trouble · J. F. Powers · ss Commonweal November 10 1944 · The Conqueror · Allan Seager · ss Story #111, January/February 1945 · Subway System · Katharine Shattuck · ss Rocky Mountain Review · The Hour of Knowing · Louise Reinhardt Smith · ss Story #111, January/February 1945 · Lead Her Like a Pigeon · Jessamyn West · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1944 · Come Away Home · Michael Wilson · ss The Yale Review Winter 1945

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1946 ed. Herschel Brickell (Doubleday & Company, Inc., August 1946, xxi+318pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories] vii · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in 1 · Bird Song · John Mayo Goss · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1946; first prize. 18 · The Innocent Bystander · Margaret Shedd · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1946; second prize. 31 · Sometimes You Break Even · Victor Ullman · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1946; third prize. 48 · Waves of Darkness · Cord Meyer, Jr. · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1946; best first-published story. 65 · The Imaginary Jew · John Berryman · ss The Kenyon Review Autumn 1945 74 · Winter Night · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker January 19 1946 85 · Request for Sherwood Anderson · Frank Brookhouser · ss The Yale Review 1945 91 · Sex Education · Dorothy Canfield · ss The Yale Review Winter 1946 103 · Miriam · Truman Capote · ss Mademoiselle June 1945 115 · I Forgot Where I Was · Elizabeth Enright · ss Harper’s Bazaar 123 · What We Have Missed · Elizabeth Hardwick · ss Harper’s Bazaar 133 · The Heroine · Patricia Highsmith · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1945 149 · Innocents · M. P. Hutchins · nv The Kenyon Review Winter 1946 177 · Breathe Upon These Slain · Meridel Le Sueur · ss The Kenyon Review Summer 1945 195 · The Guide · Andrew Lytle · nv The Sewanee Review Summer 1945 218 · Not Very Close · Dorothy McCleary · ss Harper’s Bazaar 226 · Black Secret · Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · ss The New Yorker September 8 1945 233 · The Beggar Boy · David S. Savler · ss Story #113, May/June 1945 242 · Act of Faith · Irwin Shaw · nv The New Yorker February 2 1946 259 · The Empty Sky · Benedict Thielen · ss The Yale Review 272 · A Sketching Trip · Eudora Welty · nv The Atlantic Monthly June 1945 294 · The Blackboard · Jessamyn West · ss Town & Country 1946 304 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg 315 · Appendix · [uncredited] · ms

The Pocket Book of O. Henry Prize Stories ed. Herschel Brickell (Pocket Books, October 1947, 446, 25¢, 441pp, pb, an)     Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 1 · Introduction · Herschel Brickell · in 9 · England to America · Margaret Prescott Montague · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1919 28 · Each in His Generation · Struthers Burt · nv Scribner’s Magazine July 1920 51 · Snake Doctor [Judge William Pitman Priest (Old Judge Priest)] · Irvin S. Cobb · nv Cosmopolitan November 1922 77 · Prelude · Edgar Valentine Smith · nv Harper’s Magazine May 1923 98 · The Spring Flight · Inez Haynes Irwin · nv McCall’s Magazine June 1924 127 · Mr. Bisbee’s Princess · Julian Street · nv The Red Book Magazine May 1925 172 · Bubbles · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine August 1926 198 · Death in the Woods · Sherwood Anderson · ss The American Mercury September 1926 212 · Child of God · Roark Bradford · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1927 228 · The Parrot · Walter Duranty · nv The Red Book Magazine March 1928 253 · Dressing-Up · W. R. Burnett · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1929 266 · The Sacrifice of the Maidens · Elizabeth Madox Roberts · ss Letters May 1930 278 · Gal Young Un · Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1932 (+1) 320 · No More Trouble for Jedwick · Louis Paul · ss Esquire March 1934 333 · The White Horses of Vienna · Kay Boyle · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1935 352 · Total Stranger · James Gould Cozzens · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 15 1936 371 · The Happiest Man on Earth · Albert Maltz · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1938 384 · Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939 407 · A Worn Path · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1941 417 · The Knot Hole · Dorothy Canfield · nv The Yale Review Spring 1943