O. Henry Award Winners

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: Stephen King, Woody Allen, John Updike, Dorothy Parker, Alice Walker, Saul Bellow, Frederick Buechner, Louise Erdrich, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Joyce Carol Oates, Robie Macauley, Raymond Carver, Guy Davenport, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Gordon Lish, O. Henry Award, A. S. Byatt, James Gould Cozzens, Kay Boyle, Stephen Vincent Benet, Lorrie Moore, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, John Edgar Wideman, Rick Bass, Jane Smiley, Denis Johnson, Cynthia Ozick, Cornelia Nixon, Harold Brodkey, Reginald McKnight, Joyce Johnson, W. R. Burnett, Bessie Breuer, Thom Jones, Albert Maltz, Matthew Klam, Maureen Daly, Steve Heller, Lawrence Sargent Hall, Murad Kalam, The Ceiling. Excerpt: John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and the novella "Rabbit Remembered") which chronicled the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to his death. Both Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit At Rest (1990) received the Pulitzer Prize. He is one of only three authors (the others being Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Updike published more than twenty novels and more than a dozen short story collections, as well as poetry, art criticism, literary criticism and children's books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker, starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class," Updike was well recognized for his careful craftsmanship, his unique prose style, and his prolificness. He wrote on average a book a year....