Category
page 1O. Henry Award winners

Woody Allen
Heywood "Woody" Allen is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning eight decades, he has written for film, television, and theater. Allen has received many accolades, including the most wins and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has won four Academy Awards, ten BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for an Emmy Award and a Tony Award. Allen has also received numerous honors, including an Honorary Golden Lion in 1995, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, an Honorary Palme d'Or in 2002, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2014. Two of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
William Faulkner
American writer (1897-1962)

Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror fiction and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. He has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections.
Alice Munro
Canadian writer (1931–2024)
Saul Bellow
Canadian-American writer (1915–2005)

Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
Alice Walker
American author and activist (born 1944)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian writer (born 1977)
John Updike
American novelist, poet (1932–2009)
Dorothy Parker
American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967)
Joyce Carol Oates
American author (born 1938)
A. S. Byatt
British writer (1936–2023)

Flannery O'Connor
American writer (1925–1964)

Raymond Carver
penman, poet, screenwriter, novelist, prose writer, teacher, short story writer (1938-1988)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
German-born British-American author (1927-2013)

John Cheever
American novelist and short story writer (1912-1982)

Katherine Anne Porter
American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist (1890–1980)
Bernard Malamud
American author (1914–1986)
Eudora Welty
American short story writer, novelist and photographer (1909-2001)

Irwin Shaw
American writer (1913–1984)

Martha Gellhorn
journalist from the United States (1908–1998)

Junot Díaz
author

Louise Erdrich
writer from the United States

Mark Haddon
English writer and illustrator
William Trevor
Irish writer (1928–2016)
Wallace Stegner
American historian, writer, and environmentalist (1909-1993)
Sherman Alexie
American author and filmmaker
Jane Smiley
American novelist
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
American novelist (1896–1953)
Denis Johnson
American writer (novel, drama, poetry, essay) (1949-2017)
Stephen Vincent Benét
American poet, short story writer, novelist (1898–1943)
Cynthia Ozick
American writer (born 1928)
Lorrie Moore
American writer
Valeria Luiselli
Mexican writer
Yiyun Li
Chinese American writer
Lauren Groff
American writer
Jean Stafford
American author (1915–1979)
Kelly Link
American writer
O. Henry Award
American award for short stories
Edward P. Jones
American novelist, short story writer
Amor Towles
American novelist

Irvin S. Cobb
American writer (1876-1944)
Tillie Olsen
American writer (1912–2007)
James Gould Cozzens
American novelist (1903-1978)
Albert Maltz
American writer (1908–1985)
W. R. Burnett
novelist, screenwriter (1899-1982)
Shirley Hazzard
Australian-American author
Renata Adler
American author, journalist and film critic
Walter Duranty
American journalist (1884–1957)
Kay Boyle
American writer, educator, political activist (1902–1992)
Inez Haynes Irwin
Feminist, author, journalist
Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor
American writer (1917–1994)
Joyce Johnson
American novelist, short story writer, memoirist

Mary Gordon
novelist, memoirist, literary critic

Deborah Eisenberg
American short story writer, actress, teacher
John Edgar Wideman
American fiction writer, memoirist, essayist
Andrea Barrett
American novelist and short story writer

Graham Joyce
British writer (1954–2014)
Harold Brodkey
writer (1930–1996)
Elizabeth McCracken
American writer