Former BNW Editor Robert Gover grew up in an endowed orphanage (Girard College in Philadelphia), worked as a journalist, and became a best-selling novelist at age 30. His first novel, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, a satire on American racism, remains a cult classic and was among the prime books exposuring the sexual, racial, and linguistic hypocrisy which governed the USA in the mid-20th century.

The Gover Story Prize, named after groundbreaking author Robert Gover, is published in Best New Writing. Finalists are also published in Best New Writing. Gover Story Prize honorees are listed on our website.