O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
                                            
                            Edited by Blanche Colton Williams
                            
                                13 Mar, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Eight years after O. Henry's death, in April 1918, a committee decided to award prizes in his name for short-story writers, and it formed the Committee of Award to read the short stories published in a year and to pick the winners. The series editor 
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                                                Eight years after O. Henry's death, in April 1918, a committee decided to award prizes in his name for short-story writers, and it formed the Committee of Award to read the short stories published in a year and to pick the winners. The series editor chooses twenty short stories, each one an O. Henry Prize Story. All stories originally written in the English language and published in an American or Canadian periodical are eligible for consideration. In the words of Blanche Colton Williams (1879-1944), the first of the nine series editors, the memorial intended to "strengthen the art of the short story and to stimulate younger authors." Less