Walking Wounded (short story)
| "The Walking Wounded" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by Irwin Shaw | |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publication | |
| Published in | The New Yorker |
| Publication date | May 13, 1944 |
"Walking Wounded” is a work of short fiction by Irwin Shaw, originally appearing in The New Yorker on May 13, 1944, and first collected in Act of Faith and Other Stories (1946) by Random House. The story was carried by Stars and Stripes during the war.
The story won the 1944 O. Henry Award Memorial Award First Prize, and is regarded as Shaw’s finest treatment of war in his works of short fiction. “Walking Wounded” is “probably Shaw’s most famous war story.”