O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 | Page 2

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The several members of the Committee have seldom agreed on the comparative excellence of stories, few being of sufficient superiority in the opinion of the Committee as a whole to justify setting them aside for future consideration. The following three dozen candidates, more or less, average highest:
Addington, Sarah, Another Cactus Blooms (Smart Set, December).
Alexander, Elizabeth, Fifty-Two Weeks for Florette [Reprinted as by Elizabeth Alexander Heermann.] (Saturday Evening Post, August 13).
Allen, Maryland, The Urge (Everybody's, September).
Arbuckle, Mary, Wasted (Midland, May).
Beer, Thomas, Mummery (Saturday Evening Post, July 30).
Burt, Maxwell Struthers, Buchanan Hears the Wind (Harper's, August).
Byrne, Donn, Reynardine (McClure's, May).
Chittenden, Gerald, The Victim of His Vision (Scribner's, May).
Comfort, Will Levington, and Dost, Zamin Ki, The Deadly Karait (Asia, August).
Cooper, Courtney Ryley, and Creagan, Leo F. Martin, Gerrity Gets Even (American, July).
Cooper, Courtney Ryley, Old Scarface (Pictorial Review, April).
Cram, Mildred, Stranger Things--(Metropolitan, January).
Derieux, Samuel A., Comet (American, December).
Hull Helen R., Waiting (Touchstone, February).
Jackson, Charles Tenney, The Man who Cursed the Lilies (Short Stories, December 10).
Kerr, Sophie, Wild Earth (Saturday Evening Post, April 2).
Kniffin, Harry Anable, The Tribute (Brief Stories, September).
Lewis, O.F., The Get-A way (Red Book, February); The Day of Judgment (Red Book, October).
Mahoney, James, Wilfrid Reginald and the Dark Horse (Century, August).
Marshall, Edison, The Heart of Little Shikara (Everybody's, January).
Morris, Gouverneur, Groot's Macaw (Cosmopolitan, November); Just One Thing More (Cosmopolitan, December).
Mumford, Ethel Watts, "Aurore" (Pictorial Review, February); The Crowned Dead (Short Stories, July); Funeral Frank (Detective Stories, October 29).
Robbins, L.H., Mr. Downey Sits Down (Everybody's, June).
Steele, Wilbur Daniel, 'Toinette of Maissonnoir (Pictorial Review, July); The Marriage in Kairwan (Harper's, December).
Street, Julian, A Voice in the Hall (Harper's, September).
Stringer, Arthur, A Lion Must Eat (McClure's, March).
Tupper, Tristram, Grit (Metropolitan, March).
Vorse, Mary Heaton, The Halfway House (Harper's, October).
Wolff, William Almon, Thalassa! Thalassa! (Everybody's, July).
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The following stories rank high with a majority of the Committee:
Anthony, Joseph, A Cask of Ale for Columban (Century, March).
Baker, Karle Wilson, The Porch Swing (Century, April).
Balmer, Edwin, "Settled Down" (Everybody's, February).
Beer, Thomas, Addio (Saturday Evening Post, October 29); The Lily Pond (Saturday Evening Post, April 16).
Biggs, John, Jr., Corkran of the Clamstretch (Scribner's, December).
Boulton, Agnes, The Snob (Smart Set, June).
Boyle, Jack, The Heart of the Lily (Red Book, February); The Little Lord of All the Earth (Red Book, March).
Byrne, Donn, The Keeper of the Bridge (McClure's, April).
Canfield, Dorothy, Pamela's Shawl (Century, August).
Connell, Richard, The Man in the Cape (Metropolitan, July).
Cooper, Courtney Ryley, The Fiend (Cosmopolitan, March); Love (Red Book, June).
Cram, Mildred, Anna (McCatt's, March); The Bridge (Harper's Bazaar, April).
Derieux, Samuel A., Figgers Can't Lie (Delineator, April); The Bolter (American, November).
Dreiser, Theodore, Phantom Gold (Live Stories, March).
Ellerbe, Alma and Paul, When the Ice Went Out (Everybody's, May).
England, George Allan, Test Tubes (Short Stories, March).
Erickson, Howard, The Debt (Munsey's, February).
Fraenkel, H. E., The Yellow Quilt (Liberator, December).
Ginger, Bonnie, The Decoy (Century, October).
Hart, Frances Noyes, The American (Pictorial Review, November).
Hergesheimer, Joseph, Juju (Saturday Evening Post, July 30); The Token (Saturday Evening Post, October 22).
Hopper, Elsie Van de Water, The Flight of the Herons (Scribner's, November).
Hughes, Rupert, When Crossroads Cross Again (Collier's, January 29).
Hurst, Fannie, She Walks in Beauty (Cosmopolitan, August).
Irwin, Inez Haynes, For Value Received (Cosmopolitan, November).
Irwin, Wallace, The Old School (Pictorial Review, April).
Kabler, Hugh MacNair, Like a Tree (Saturday Evening Post) January 22).
Lanier, Henry Wysham, Circumstantial (Collier's, October 15).
Lewis, Sinclair, Number Seven (American, May).
Mahoney, James, Taxis of Fate (Century, November).
Mason, Grace Sartwell, Glory (Harper's, April).
Moore, Frederick, The Picture (Adventure, September 10).
Mouat, Helen, Aftermath (Good Housekeeping, September).
Natteford, J. F., A Glimpse of the Heights (Photoplay, April).
Neidig, William F, The Firebug (Everybody's, April).
Pitt, Chart, Debt of the Snows (Sunset, April).
Post, Melville Davisson, The Mottled Butterfly (Red Book, August); The Great Cipher (Red Book, November).
Read, Marion Pugh, Everlasting Grace (Atlantic Monthly, March).
Rhodes, Harrison, Night Life and Thomas Robinson (Saturday Evening Post, June 4).
Rouse, William Merriam, Arms of Judgment (Argosy-All-Story Weekly, March 12).
Shore, Viola Brothers, The Heritage (Saturday Evening Post, February 5).
Singmaster, Elsie, The Magic Mirror (Pictorial Review, November).
Springer, Fleta Campbell, The Mountain of Jehovah (Harper's, March).
Tarkington, Booth, Jeannette (Red Book, May).
Titus, Harold, The Courage of Number Two (Metropolitan, June).
Train, Arthur, The Crooked Fairy (McCall's, July).
Watson, Marion Elizabeth, Bottle Stoppers (Pictorial Review, June).
Wormser, G. Ranger, Gossamer (Pictorial Review, March).
The following stories are regarded the best of the year by the judges whose names are respectively indicated:
1. The Marriage in Kairwan, by Wilbur Daniel Steele (Harper's, December). Ethel Watts Mumford.
2. A Life, by Wilbur Daniel Steele (Pictorial Review, August). Edward J. Wheeler.
3. Wisdom Buildeth Her House, by Donn Byrne (Century, December). Blanche Colton Williams.
4. Waiting, by Helen R. Hull (Touchstone, February). Grove E. Wilson.
5. The Poppies of Wu Fong, by Lee Foster Hartman (Harper's, November). Frances Gilchrist Wood.
Out of the first list sixteen stories were requested for republication in this volume. The significance of the third list lies in the fact that only one story