The Pushcart Prize 2001

The quarter-century edition of a distinguished annual literary event (Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review). For its twenty-fifth year, The Pushcart Prize surpasses itself with a stunning presentation of new and celebrated authors. Over sixty stories, essays, and poems appear in this landmark edition, picked from more than 5, 000 nominations. Over the years more than 400 presses have been honored with reprints inThe Pushcart Prize, the most praised literary series in America: winner of the Carey-Thomas Award, named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, picked for several Book-of-the-Month Club selections, and hailed byPublishers Weekly as among the most influential in the development of the American book business in the past century and a quarter. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.