Prize Stories 1990: The O. Henry Awards

Widely regarded as the nation’s most prestigious awards for short fiction -The Atlantic Monthly

The O. Henry Prize Stories 1990 gathers 20 of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines.

Stories include:
Leo E. Litwak The Eleventh Edition (first prize)
Peter Matthiessen Lumumba Lives (second prize)
Lore Segal The Reverse Bug (third prize)
Joyce Carol Oates Heat

Carolyn Osborn The Grands

James P. Blaylock Unidentified Objects

Jane Brown Gillette Sins Against Animals

Julie Schumacher The Private Life of Robert Schumann

Joanne Greenberg Elizabeth Baird

Alice Adams 1940: Fall

T. Coraghessan Boyle The Ape Lady in Retirement

Marilyn Sides The Island of the Mapmaker’s Wife

David Michael Kaplan Stand

Meredith Steinbach In Recent History

Claudia Smith Brinson Einstein’s Daughter

Felicia Ackerman The Forecasting Game

Reginald McKnight The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas

Bruce Fleming The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein

Devon Jersild In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond

Janice Eidus Vito Loves Geraldine

One of the most welcome signs of the literary spring is the appearance of the annual O. Henry Awards collection. -Los Angeles Times