Cozzens received O. Henry Awards for his short stories "A Farewell to Cuba" (1931) and "Total Stranger," published in The Saturday Evening Post on February 15, 1936, then wrote two more highly regarded novels, Ask Me Tomorrow (1941), and The Just and the Unjust (1942).
Cozzens belönades med O. Henry Award för sina noveller "A Farewell to Cuba" (1931) och "Total Stranger", publicerad i The Saturday Evening Post 15 februari 1936, därefter skrev han ytterligare två uppmärksammade romaner, Ask Me Tomorrow (1941) och The Just and the Unjust (1942).