Widely regarded as the nation’s most prestigious awards for short fiction—The Atlantic Monthly The O. Henry Prize Stories 1990 gathers 20 of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. Stories include: Leo E. Litwak The Eleventh Edition (first prize) Peter Matthiessen Lumumba Lives (second prize) Lore Segal The Reverse Bug (third prize) Joyce Carol Oates Heat Carolyn Osborn The Grands James P. Blaylock Unidentified Objects Jane Brown Gillette Sins Against Animals Julie Schumacher The Private Life of Robert Schumann Joanne Greenberg Elizabeth Baird Alice Adams 1940: Fall T. Coraghessan Boyle The Ape Lady in Retirement Marilyn Sides The Island of the Mapmaker’s Wife David Michael Kaplan Stand Meredith Steinbach In Recent History Claudia Smith Brinson Einstein’s Daughter Felicia Ackerman The Forecasting Game Reginald McKnight The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas Bruce Fleming The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein Devon Jersild In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond Janice Eidus Vito Loves Geraldine One of the most welcome signs of the literary spring is the appearance of the annual O. Henry Awards collection.—Los Angeles Times | Prize Stories 1990 by William Abrahams, Paperback | Indigo Chapters