Finalists named for Story Prize

Adam Johnson’s Fortune Smiles, winner last fall of the National Book Award for fiction, is now a finalist for the Story Prize.

The other finalists announced Tuesday for the $20,000 award, given for the best short fiction, are Charles Baxter’s There’s Something I Want You to Do and Colum McCann’s Thirteen Ways of Looking.

All are published by divisions of Penguin Random House and have been National Book Award finalists, although Baxter and McCann were both cited for novels. Baxter’s Feast of Love was a nominee in 2000, while McCann won the National Book Award in 2009 for Let the Great World Spin. Johnson’s novel The Orphan Master’s Son won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013.

The winner will be announced March 2.

This story was originally published January 12, 2016 at 1:16 PM with the headline "Finalists named for Story Prize."