Laura Furman

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1982
  • Latest Book:
    September 2019
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Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • The Shadow Line

    When reporter Liz Gold fled to Houston to escape her family and her wrecked marriage, she investigates the twenty-year-old murder of the mistress of a prominent businessman and uncovers the truth about the murder--and herself...

  • Watch Time Fly

  • Tuxedo Park

    What distinguishes Munro (The Moon of Jupiter from most other contemporary practitioners of short fiction is that she brings to each story a freshness of vision, a breadth of sympathy and a wide-ranging imagination that make her work both unpredictab...

  • American Short Fiction

  • American Short Fiction Number 8 Winter 1992

  • Drinking with the Cook

  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007

    An arresting collection of contemporary fiction at its best, these stories explore a vast range of subjects, from love and deception to war and the insidious power of class distinctions. However clearly spoken, in voices sophisticated, cunning, or na...

  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008

    An annual collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 is studded with extraordinary settings and characters: a teenager in surviv...

  • The PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories 2009

    A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 features unforgettable tales in settings as diverse as post-war Vietnam, a luxu...



  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006

    A radiant reflection of contemporary fiction at its best, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 features stories from locales as diverse as Russia, Zimbabwe, and the rural American South. Series editor Laura Furman considered thousands of stories in hundre...

  • PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010

    A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010 brings to life a dazzling array of subjects: a street orphan in Malaysia, a cow...

  • The Mother Who Stayed

    In nine strikingly perceptive stories set miles and decades apart, Laura Furman mines the intricate, elusive lives of mothers and daughters -- and of women who long for someone to nurture. Meet Rachel, a young girl desperate for her mother's unbridle...

  • The Pen/O.Henry Prize Stories 2012

    The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination in settings as various as an ar...

  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013

    The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar...

  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013: Including Stories by Donald Antrim, Andrea Barrett, Ann Beattie, Deborah Eisenberg, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Kelly Link,

    The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar...

  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014

    The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories roam the world, from Nigeria to Venice, from an erupting volcano in Iceland to a brothe...

  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015

    The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories span the globe -- from the glamorous Riviera to an Eastern European shtetl, from a Nati...

  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016

    The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories range in setting from Japan at the outset of World War II to a remote cabin in the wood...

  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017

    The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017 contains twenty breathtaking stories -- by a vibrant mix of established and emerging writers -- selected by the series editor from the thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The collection in...



  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018

    The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories come from a mix of established writers and emerging voices, and are uniformly brea...

  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019

    Now celebrating its centenary, this prestigious annual anthology gathers the twenty best new short stories published in the previous year. An Anchor Books Original. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019--continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-ed...

  • The Glass House

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Laura Furman has published 22 books.

Laura Furman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019, was published in September 2019.

The first book by Laura Furman, The Shadow Line, was published in September 1982.

No. Laura Furman does not write books in series.
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