For the ninth volume of the O. Henry Memorial Award series, the judges read some twenty-five hundred stories from American magazines of 1926 and 1927 and chose these. Roark Bradford’s ‘Child of God’ and Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Killers’ lead a collection that runs from Southern folk tales to night-club sketches, each reprinted from its first appearance.
A snapshot of the American short story in the Jazz Age, for readers who like to discover forgotten names beside famous ones. Download the free EPUB.