O. Henry-Preis - Definition und Bedeutung

·	2003 Denis Johnson: "Train Dreams", Antonia Susan Byatt: "The Thing in the Forest"

·	2002 Kevin Brockmeier: "The Ceiling"

·	2001 Mary Swan : "The Deep"

·	2000 John Edgar Wideman : "Weight"

·	1999 Peter Baida : "A Nurse's Story"

·	1998 Lorrie Moore : "People Like That Are the Only People Here"

·	1997 Mary Gordon : "City Life"

·	1996 Stephen King: "The Man in the Black Suit"

·	1995 Cornelia Nixon : "The Women Come and Go"

·	1994 Alison Baker : "Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight"

·	1993 Thom Jones: "The Pugilist at Rest"

·	1992 Cynthia Ozick : "Puttermesser Paired"

·	1991 John Updike: "A Sandstone Farmhouse"

·	1990 Leo E. Litwak : "The Eleventh Edition"

·	1989 Ernest J. Finney : "Peacocks"

·	1988 Raymond Carver: "Errand"

·	1987 Louise Erdrich Karen: "Fleur", Joyce Johnson : "The Children's Wing"

·	1986 Alice Walker: "Kindred Spirits"

·	1985 Stuart Dybek : "Hot Ice", Jane Smiley : "Lily"

·	1984 Cynthia Ozick : "Rosa"

·	1983 Raymond Carver: "A Small, Good Thing"

·	1982 Susan Kenney : "Facing Front"

·	1981 Cynthia Ozick : "The Shawl"

·	1980 Saul Bellow: "A Silver Dish"

·	1979 Gordon Weaver : "Getting Serious"

·	1978 Woody Allen: "The Kugelmass Episode"

·	1977 Shirley Hazzard: "A Long Story Short", Ella Leffland: "Last Courtesies"

·	1976 Harold Brodkey: "His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft"

·	1975 Harold Brodkey: "A Story in an Almost Classical Mode"

·	1973 Cynthia Ozick: "Usurpation (Other People's Stories)"

·	1974 Renata Adler: "Brownstone"

·	1973 Joyce Carol Oates: "The Dead"

·	1972 John Batki: "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie"

·	1971 Florence M Hecht : "Twin Bed Bridge"

·	1970 Robert Hemenway: "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles"

·	1969 Bernard Malamud: "Man in the Drawer"

·	1968 Eudora Welty: "The Demonstrators"

·	1967 Joyce Carol Oates: "In the Region of Ice"

·	1966 John Updike: "The Bulgarian Poetess"

·	1965 Flannery O'Connor: "Revelation"

·	1964 John Cheever: "The Embarkment for Cythera"

·	1963 Flannery O'Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge"

·	1962 Katherine Anne Porter : "Holiday"

·	1961 Tillie Olson : "Tell Me a Riddle"

·	1960 Lawrence Sargent Hall : "The Ledge” in The Hudson Review, Winter, 1958-59

·	1959 Peter Taylor : "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” in The Kenyon Review

·	1958 Martha Gellhorn : "In Sickness as in Health” in The Atlantic Monthly

·	1957 Flannery O'Connor : "Greenleaf” in The Kenyon Review

·	1956 John Cheever: "The Country Husband” in The New Yorker

·	1955 Jean Stafford: "In the Zoo” in The New Yorker

·	1954 Thomas Mabry: "The Indian Feather"

·	1951 Harris Downey: "The Hunters"

·	1950 Wallace Stegner: "The Blue-Winged Teal"

·	1949 William Faulkner: "A Courtship"

·	1948 Truman Capote: "Shut a Final Door"

·	1947 John Bell Clayton: "The White Circle"

·	1946 John Mayo Goss: "Bird Song"

·	1945 Walter Van Tilburg Clark : "The Wind and the Snow of Winter"

·	1944 Irwin Shaw : "Walking Wounded"

·	1943 Eudora Welty : "Livvie is Back"

·	1942 Eudora Welty : "The Wide Net"

·	1941 Kay Boyle: "Defeat"

·	1940 Stephen Vincent Benét: "Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing"

·	1939 William Faulkner: "Barn Burning"

·	1938 Albert Maltz: "The Happiest Man on Earth"

·	1937 Stephen Vincent Benet: "The Devil and Daniel Webster"

·	1936 James Gould Cozzens: "Total Stranger"

·	1935 Kay Boyle: "The White Horses of Vienna"

·	1934 Louis Paul: "No More Trouble for Jedwick"

·	1933 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "Gal Young Un"

·	1932 Stephen Vincent Benét: "An End to Dreams"

·	1931 Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Can't Cross Jordan by Myself"

·	1930 W.R. Burnett: "Dressing-Up"; William H. John: "Neither Jew nor Greek"

·	1929 Dorothy Parker: "Big Blonde"

·	1928 Walter Duranty: "The Parrot"

·	1927 Roarke Bradford: "Child of God"

·	1926 Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Bubbles"

·	1925 Julian Street: "Mr. Bisbee's Princess"

·	1924 Inez Haynes Irwin: "The Spring Flight"

·	1923 Edgar Valentine Smith: "Prelude"

·	1922 Irvin S. Cobb: "Snake Doctor"

·	1921 Edison Marshall: "The Heart of Little Shikara"

·	1920 Maxwell Struthers Burt: "Each in His Generation"

·	1919 Margaret Prescott Montague: "England to America"

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