To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction, John Wideman has compiled an anthology featuring stories from each of the past winners.
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"Celebrating twenty years of debuts, 20 . . . is worth celebrating itself."-Dennis Loy Johnson
"A powerful collection of vivid, varied, and important voices in American fiction."-Chuck Kinder
"The major appeal of this book is that the selections are so varied and so wide-ranging in content, structure, and theme. Recommended . . . with the words from Katherine Vaz's 1997 story 'Fado': 'Hold it for as long as you can, and ask for its blessing.'"-Choice
Over the past twenty years, judges such as Robert Penn Warren, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Alice McDermott, and Frank Conroy have selected the best collections among hundreds submitted annually by up-and-coming writers. The Drue Heinz Literature Prize has helped launch the careers of a score of previously "undiscovered" authors, many of whom have enjoyed great commercial success and critical acclaim, earning favorable reviews in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, and Newsweek. Winners of the award since 1981 include David Bosworth, Jane McCafferty, Stewart O'Nan, Edith Pearlman, and Adria Bernardi. 20, edited by John Edgar Wideman, is a culmination of two decades of excellence in short-fiction writing, and celebrates the hopes, dreams, and individual successes of all the authors who participated in the contest.
About the Author
John Edgar Wideman grew up in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, the setting for several of his novels and stories. He is the author, most recently, of Hoop Roots.
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