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

higher percentage of values in
November and December. Explanation of the low level lies in the
financial depression which forced a number of editors to buy fewer
stories, to buy cheaply, or to search their vaults for remnant of
purchases made in happier days. Improvement began with the return to
better financial conditions.

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,