The Drue Heinz Literature Prize is a major American

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 literary award for short fiction in the English language

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.

This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press

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  in Pittsburgh

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, Pennsylvania

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, USA was initiated in 1981 by Mrs. Drue Heinz

Drue Heinz

Drue Heinz, born Doreen Mary English, is a prominent patron of the literary arts in the United States.She is the publisher of the famous literary magazine The Paris Review, which was started in 1953 by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, and edited until his death in 2003...

 and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel

Frederick A. Hetzel

Frederick Armstrong Hetzel was an American publisher and academic.-Biography:Hetzel was born and raised in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. He received degrees from Washington and Jefferson College and the University of Virginia...

. It has recognized and supported writers of short fiction and made their work available to readers around the world.

The award is open to writers who have published a book-length collection of fiction or at least three short stories or novellas in commercial magazines or literary journals. Manuscripts are judged anonymously by nationally known writers; past judges have included Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935...

, Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...

, Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver

Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. Carver is considered a major American writer of the late 20th century and also a major force in the revitalization of the short story in the 1980s....

, Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...

, Russell Banks

Russell Banks

Russell Banks is an American writer of fiction and poetry.- Biography :Russell Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on March 28, 1940. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in upstate New York, and has been named a New York State Author. He is also...

, Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon born May 24, 1963) is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation", according to The Virginia Quarterly Review....

, Frank Conroy

Frank Conroy

Frank Conroy was an American author, born in New York, New York to an American father and a Danish mother. He published five books, including the highly acclaimed memoir Stop-Time, published in 1967, which ultimately made Conroy a noted figure in the literary world...

, Richard Ford

Richard Ford

Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories.-Early...

, John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar Wideman is an American writer, professor at Brown University, and sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.-Early life:...

, Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...

, and Rick Moody

Rick Moody

Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a feature film of...

. The prize carries a cash award of $15,000 and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The winner is announced in February of each year.

Winners

Year	Winning Author	Title	Senior Judge
2010	Tina May Hall	The Physics of Imaginary Objects	Renata Adler Renata Adler Renata Adler is an American author, journalist and film critic.-Background and education:Adler was born in Milan, Italy, and grew up in Danbury, Connecticut. After gaining a B.A. in philosophy and German from Bryn Mawr, Adler studied for an M.A. in Comparative Literature at Harvard under I. A...
2009	Anne Sanow	Triple Time	Ann Patchett Ann Patchett Ann Patchett is an American author. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other novels include Run, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, and The Magician's Assistant, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize...
2008	Anthony Varallo	Out Loud	Scott Turow Scott Turow Scott F. Turow is an American author and a practicing lawyer. Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies...
2007	Kirk Nesset	Paradise Road	Hilary Masters Hilary Masters Hilary Masters is an American writer.He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Edgar Lee Masters, a writer, and Ellen Frances Coyne Masters. He attended Davidson College from 1944–1946, then served in the U.S. Navy from 1946 to 1947 as a naval correspondent...
2006	Todd James Pierce Todd James Pierce -Life:Todd James Pierce is primarily known as a novelist and short story writer. He is a graduate of the MFA program at UC Irvine and the PhD program at Florida State University...	Newsworld	Joan Didion Joan Didion Joan Didion is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation...
2005	David Harris Ebenbach David Harris Ebenbach David Harris Ebenbach is a writer of fiction and poetry, and a teacher and freelance editor.-Life:Ebenbach was born and raised in Philadelphia.He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a Ph.D...	Between Camelots	Stewart O'Nan Stewart O'Nan - Life and work :Born on February 4, 1961 to John Lee O'Nan and Mary Ann O'Nan, née Smith. He and his brother were raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
2004	Darrell Spencer Darrell Spencer Darrell Spencer is an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his short stories, which are widely published in literary journals and have been the recipients of several awards.-Life:...	Bring Your Legs with You	Michael Chabon Michael Chabon Michael Chabon born May 24, 1963) is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation", according to The Virginia Quarterly Review....
2003	Suzanne Greenberg Suzanne Greenberg -Life:She graduated from Hampshire College and from the University of Maryland with an MFA. She teaches at California State University, Long Beach.Her work has appeared in The Washington Post Magazine, Mississippi Review, West Branch and The Sun....	Speed-Walk and Other Stories	Rick Moody Rick Moody Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a feature film of...
2002	John Blair John Blair (writer) -Life:He graduated from Florida State University, and Tulane University, with a Ph.D .His work appeared in Antioch Review, American Literature, The Georgia Review, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, Southern Humanities Review, and Studies in the Novel.He teaches at...	American Standard	Elizabeth Hardwick
2001	Brett Ellen Block Brett Ellen Block -Life:Block was born and raised in Summit, New Jersey. She received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she was awarded the Hopwood and Haugh Prizes for Fiction Writing...	Destination Known	C. Michael Curtis
2000	Adria Bernardi Adria Bernardi -Life:Her work appears in Metamorphoses.She is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson College, and teaches at Clark University.-Awards:* 2010-2011 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship* 2007 Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards...	In the Gathering Woods	Frank Conroy Frank Conroy Frank Conroy was an American author, born in New York, New York to an American father and a Danish mother. He published five books, including the highly acclaimed memoir Stop-Time, published in 1967, which ultimately made Conroy a noted figure in the literary world...
1999	Lucy Honig Lucy Honig -Life:She graduated from Syracuse University and from Hunter College with a master's in education. She teaches in the School of Public Health, Boston University ....	The Truly Needy and Other Stories	Charles Johnson Charles Johnson Charles Johnson, Charlie Johnson, Charley Johnson or Chuck Johnson may refer to:-American public officials:*Charles Johnson , Democratic-Republican who represented 8th congressional district, 1801–1802...
1998	Barbara Croft Barbara Croft -Life:She grew up in Iowa. She is a member of the Society of Midland Authors. She lives in Chicago.-Reviews:There are only two facts, birth and death, and in between some necessary fictions.” In the case of the Gerhardt family, the once-functional fictions are fraying, unraveling into a painful...	Necessary Fictions	Bharati Mukherjee Bharati Mukherjee Bharati Mukherjee is an award-winning Indian-born American writer. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.-Background:...
1997	Katherine Vaz Katherine Vaz Katherine Vaz is an American writer.-Award:*1997: Drue Heinz Literature Prize, -References:...	Fado and Other Stories	George Garrett George Garrett (poet) George Palmer Garrett. was an American poet and novelist. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2006. His novels include The Finished Man, Double Vision, and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun...
1996	Edith Pearlman Edith Pearlman -Life:Pearlman grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and graduated from Radcliffe College. She has worked in a computer firm and a soup kitchen and has served in the Town Meeting of Brookline, Massachusetts....	Vaquita and Other Stories	Rosellen Brown Rosellen Brown Rosellen Brown is an American author, and has been an instructor of English and creative writing at several universities, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Houston...
1995	Geoffrey Becker Geoffrey Becker -Life:He teaches at Towson University.His work appeared in Antioch Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Crescent Review, failbetter.com, Florida Review, Gettysburg Review, Kansas Quarterly, North American Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Roanoke Review, Sonora Review, The...	Dangerous Men	Charles Baxter Charles Baxter Charles Baxter is an American author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.-Life:Baxter was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to John and Mary Barber Baxter. He graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul, and taught high school in Pinconning, Michigan, for a year. In 1974 he received his Ph.D...
1994	Jennifer Cornell Jennifer Cornell -Life:She graduated from University of Ulster with an MA, and Cornell University with an MFA in 1994.She teaches at Oregon State University.Her work has appeared in New Hibernia Review, Proceeding of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, TriQuarterly, and New England Review.-External links:...	Departures	Alice McDermott Alice McDermott Alice McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St...
1993	Stewart O'Nan Stewart O'Nan - Life and work :Born on February 4, 1961 to John Lee O'Nan and Mary Ann O'Nan, née Smith. He and his brother were raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....	In The Walled City	Tobias Wolff Tobias Wolff Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American author. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life , and his short stories. He has also written two novels.-Biography:Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama...
1992	Jane McCafferty Jane McCafferty -Life:Her stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Seattle Review, Glimmer Train, Story, Witness. She teaches at Carnegie Mellon University...	Director of the World and Other Stories	John Edgar Wideman John Edgar Wideman John Edgar Wideman is an American writer, professor at Brown University, and sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.-Early life:...
1991	Elizabeth Graver Elizabeth Graver -Life:Graver was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1986, and her M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1999. She also did graduate work at Cornell University...	Have You Seen Me?	Richard Ford Richard Ford Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories.-Early...
1990	Rick Hillis Rick Hillis -Life:He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan and the Iowa Writers Workshop, with an MFA. He attended Stanford University as a Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer in fiction writing, and has been a Chesterfield Film Writers’ Fellow at Universal Studios....	Limbo River	Russell Banks Russell Banks Russell Banks is an American writer of fiction and poetry.- Biography :Russell Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on March 28, 1940. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in upstate New York, and has been named a New York State Author. He is also...
1989	Maya Sonenberg Maya Sonenberg -Life:She graduated from Wesleyan University, in 1982 and from Brown University, in 1984.She teaches at University of Washington.Her work appeared in Gargoyle, Santa Monica Review,She is a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers' Association.-Works:...	Cartographies	Robert Coover Robert Coover Robert Lowell Coover is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.-Life and works:...
1988	Reginald McKnight Reginald McKnight -Life:McKnight was born 26 February 1956 in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany to an Air Force family; therefore, he moved around a lot in childhood, although he calls Colorado home...	Moustapha's Eclipse	Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...
1987	Ellen Hunnicutt Ellen Hunnicutt -Life:She attended Ball State University, El Camino College, and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, with a bachelor's degree and master's degree in 1984....	In the Music Library	Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...
1986	Rick DeMarinis Rick DeMarinis -Life:He taught at the University of Montana, San Diego State University, Arizona State University, and the University of Texas at El Paso.His short stories have appeared in Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, GQ, The Paris Review, The Iowa Review.-Awards:* two National Endowment for the Arts...	Under The Wheat	Alison Lurie Alison Lurie Alison Lurie is an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she has also written numerous non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress.-Personal...
1985	W. D. Wetherell	The Man Who Loved Levittown	Max Apple Max Apple Max Apple is an American short story writer, novelist, and university professor at The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Apple was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and received his B.A. and Ph.D from The University of Michigan...
1984	Randall Silvis Randall Silvis Randall Silvis is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and teacher.-Life:He was educated at Clarion University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania...	The Luckiest Man in the World	Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
1983	Jonathan Penner Jonathan Penner (writer) -Life:He graduated from the University of Bridgeport and from the University of Iowa with an M.F.A., M.A., and Ph.D. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He taught at the New School for Social Research, Southern Illinois University, Vanderbilt University, and the...	Private Parties	Wright Morris Wright Morris Wright Marion Morris was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with narrative forms. Wright Morris died April 25, 1998 at the age of 88 years. He is...
1982	Robley Wilson Robley Wilson Robley Wilson is an American poet, writer, and editor.-Life:He taught at Beloit College, the University of Iowa, Northwestern University, Pitzer College, and the University of Central Florida, and the University of Northern Iowa from 1963 to 1996.He was editor of The North American Review from...	Dancing for Men	Raymond Carver Raymond Carver Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. Carver is considered a major American writer of the late 20th century and also a major force in the revitalization of the short story in the 1980s....
1981	David Bosworth David Bosworth -External links:...	The Death of Descartes	Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935...

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