Prize stories, 1990 :  the O. Henry awards / 
 O. Henry awards 
edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. 
 - New York :  Doubleday,  c1990. 
 - xiv, 431 p. ;   21 cm. 
<br/><br/>The eleventh edition (First Prize) / Leo E. Litwack -- Lumumba lives (Second Prize) / Peter Matthiessen -- The reverse bug (Third Prize) / Lore Segal -- Heat / Joyce Carol Oates -- The grands / Carolyn Osborn -- Unidentified objects / James P. Blaylock -- Sins against animals / Jane Brown Gillette -- The private life of Robert Schumann / Julie Schumacher -- Elizabeth Baird / Joanne Greenberg -- 1940: Fall / Alice Adams -- The ape lady in retirement / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- The island of the mapmaker's wife / Marilyn Sides -- Stand / David Michael Kaplan -- In recent history / Meredith Steinbach -- Einstein's daughter / Claudia Smith Brinson -- The forecasting game : a story / Felicia Ackerman -- The kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight -- The autobiography of Gertrude Stein / Bruce Fleming -- In which John imagines his mind as a pond / Devon Jersild -- Vito loves Geraldine / Janice Eidus. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0385264984 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, American.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS648.S5  / P74 1990