《The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005》RANDY以前看的书（顺便贴了喝的水和包包）

大家看到FAN拍到演完Equus的RANDY的照片，总是一瓶水，一本书，一个包（和以前一样）。。。。。
RANDY看的这本书《The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005》
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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005...reviewed by Matthew Katz
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The O. Henry Prize 的介绍
Eight years after O. Henry's death, in April 1918, the Twilight Club (founded in 1883 and later known as the Society of Arts and Letters) held a dinner in his honor at the Hotel McAlpin in New York City. His friends remembered him so enthusiastically that a committee met at the Hotel Biltmore in December 1918 to establish an O. Henry memorial. The committee decided to award prizes in his name for short-story writers, and it formed the Committee of Award to read the short stories published in a year and to pick the winners. In the words of Blanche Colton Williams (1879-1944), the first of the nine series editors, the memorial intended to "strengthen the art of the short story and to stimulate younger authors."

Doubleday, Page & Company was chosen to publish the first volume of O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories 1919. In 1927, the Society sold to Doubleday, Doran & Company all rights to the annual collection. Doubleday published The O. Henry Prize Stories, as it came to be known, in hardcover, and from 1984-1996 its subsidiary, Anchor Books, published it simultaneously in paperback. Since 1997 The O. Henry Prize Stories has been published as an original Anchor Books paperback.

Over the years, the rules and methods of selection have varied. As of 2003, the series editor chooses twenty short stories, each one an O. Henry Prize Story. All stories originally written in the English language and published in an American or Canadian periodical are eligible for consideration.

Three jurors are appointed annually. The jurors receive the twenty prize stories in manuscript form, with no identification of author or publication. Each juror, acting independently, chooses a short story of special interest and merit, and comments on that story.

The goal of The O. Henry Prize Stories remains to strengthen the art of the short story.

O. Henry的介绍
William Sidney Porter (O. Henry) was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. His experiences in Texas, Honduras, and New York provided rich material for his more than three hundred short stories. In writing a story, he said, "the unusual is the ordinary rather than the unexpected."

In 1882, hoping to escape tuberculosis in a drier climate, young Will Porter left Greensboro and moved to a ranch in southwest Texas, where he learned to herd sheep, mend fences, and cook for the ranch hands. The exciting stories that Porter heard about ruthless outlaws and the Texas Rangers would inspire his western classics.

Some of Porter's happiest years were spent in Austin, where he began his adult life and writing career. He worked as a pharmacist, a draftsman for the General Land Office, and a bank teller at the First National Bank. He fell in love with Athol Estes, with whom he shared a passion for art, music, and literature. After they married, Porter started The Rolling Stone, a weekly devoted to cartoons and humorous stories.

Unfortunately, Porter's happiness did not last. Charged with embezzlement at the First National Bank, and believing that he would be found guilty for a crime he had not committed, he fled to Honduras. He returned to Austin upon learning that Athol was dying of tuberculosis, and after she died, he went to prison. At the federal penitentiary in Ohio he began to write in earnest, completing twelve stories that were all eventually published in national magazines. After trying a variety of pen names, William Sidney Porter adopted the pseudonym by which he became
famous--O. Henry.

In the spring of 1902, upon his release from prison, O. Henry moved to New York City, where he lived among the literati, and his work flourished. The Saturday Evening Post published "The Ransom of Red Chief," and by 1903 he was under contract with the New York World to write a story a week, earning him his steadiest income. The New York World published "The Gift of the Magi," which has become a Christmas classic.

O. Henry had many friends who championed his work. Gilman Hall, an editor at Ainslee's, convinced the magazine to advance O. Henry one hundred dollars so he could afford to move to New York. Witter Bynner, an editor for McClure's, encouraged O. Henry to write his only novel, Cabbages and Kings, which was based on his stories about Central America. Harry Peyton Steger, literary advisor to Doubleday, Page & Company, first published O. Henry's stories in book form, and after O. Henry's death on June 5, 1910, became his literary executor.

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