This is a partial list of published short story authors: This article is in need of attention. ... For other uses, see Author (disambiguation). ...

Letters A-E

• Chinua Achebe (born 1930)
• Sherman Alexie (born 1966)
• Henry Allen (born 1982)
• Steve Almond
• Martin Amis (born 1949)
• Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
• Max Apple (born 1941)
• Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
• Isaac Babel (1894-1940)
• Andrea Barrett (born 1964)
• Lynne Barrett
• John Barth (born 1930)
• Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
• Charles Baxter (born 1947)
• Ann Beattie (born 1947)
• Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
• Stefano Benni (born 1947)
• Ambrose Bierce (1842-c.1914)
• Michael Bishop (born 1945)
• Terry Bisson (born 1942)
• Robert Bloch (1917-1994)
• Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
• T.C. Boyle (born 1948)
• Leigh Brackett (1915-1978)
• Ray Bradbury (born 1920)
• Stan Ageira (Born 1961)
• Maeve Brennan (1917-1993)
• Fredric Brown (1906-1972)
• Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
• Dino Buzzati (1906-1972)
• Morley Callaghan (1903-1990)
• Italo Calvino (1923-1985)
• Ramsey Campbell (born 1946)
• Albert Camus (1913-1960)
• Kevin Canty
• Angela Carter (1940-1992)
• Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
• Michael Chabon (born 1963)
• John Cheever (1912-1982)
• Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
• Ted Chiang (born 1967)
• Brian Cleeve (1921-2003)
• Kate Chopin (1850-1904)
• John Collier (1901-1980)
• Frank Conroy (1936-2005)
• Robert Coover (born 1932)
• Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
• Catherine Crowe (1800-1876)
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
• Julio Cortazar (1914-1984)
• A. J. Cronin (1896-1981)
• Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
• Avram Davidson (1923-1993)
• Peter Ho Davies (born 1966)
• Lydia Davis (born 1947)
• Graham Diamoind (born 1947)
• Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
• Paul Di Filippo (born 1954)
• Jeff Doyle (born 1955)
• Andre Dubus (1936-1999)
• Andy Duncan (born 1964)
• Stuart Dybek (born 1942)
• Dave Eggers (born 1970)
• Aaron Elliot (born 1969)
• Harlan Ellison (born 1934)

Chinua Achebe (pronounced [2]), born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe on November 16, 1930, is a Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. ... Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. ... Henry Allen has been the name of more than one person of note. ... Steve Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California. ... Photo of Martin Amis by Robert Birnbaum Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is an English novelist. ... Sherwood Anderson in 1933. ... Max Apple (born October 22, 1941) is an American short story writer, novelist, and university professor at The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Isaac Asimov (January 2?, 1920?[1] – April 6, 1992), pronounced , originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов [1], was a Russian-born American author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ... Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel, Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель (13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1894 – January 27, 1940) was a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short story writer. ... Andrea Barrett (born November 16th, 1954) is an acclaimed American writer. ... Lynne Barrett is an American writer and editor, best known for her short stories. ... John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work. ... Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 - July 23, 1989) was an American author of short fiction and novels. ... Charles Baxter is an American author born in 1947 in Minneapolis. ... Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947) is an American short story writer and novelist. ... Arnold Bennett, British novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867-March 27, 1931) was a British novelist. ... Stefano Benni (August 12, 1947, Bologna) is an Italian satirical writer and journalist. ... Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1914?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his Devils Dictionary. ... Brittle Innings by Michael Bishop (First Edition) / Bantam Books, 1994 (Cover art by Michael Dudash) Michael Lawson Bishop (born November 12, 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an award-winning American writer. ... Terry Bisson (born February 12, 1942) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. ... Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917, Chicago-September 23, 1994, Los Angeles) was a prolific American writer. ... Borges redirects here. ... T. Coraghessan Boyle (T.C. Boyle, born Thomas John Boyle on December 2, 1948) is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. ... Leigh Brackett (December 7, 1915, in Los Angeles, California – March 18, 1978) was a writer of science fiction, mystery novels and — best known to the general public — Hollywood screenplays, most notably The Big Sleep (1945), Rio Bravo (1959), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). ... Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. ... Maeve Brennan Maeve Brennan (1917–1993), was an Irish-American short story writer and journalist. ... Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906, Cincinnati – March 11, 1972) was a science fiction and mystery writer. ... Bukowski redirects here. ... Dino Buzzati Traverso (October 16, 1906 - January 28, 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. ... Edward Morley Callaghan, CC, LL.B., LL.D., FRSC (September 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, TV and radio personality. ... Italo Calvino, on the cover of Lezioni americane: Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio Italo Calvino (October 15, 1923 – September 19, 1985) (pronounced ) was an Italian writer and novelist. ... John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer considered by a number of critics to be one of the great masters of horror fiction. ... For other uses, see Camus. ... Kevin Canty is the American author of three novels (Into the Great Wide Open, Nine Below Zero, and Winslow in Love) and two collections of short stories (A Stranger in This World and Honeymoon). ... Angela Carter (May 7, 1940 – February 16, 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist and science fiction works. ... Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. ... Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American author and one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: , IPA: ) was a Russian short story writer and playwright. ... Ted Chiang Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. ... Brian Cleeve Brian Talbot Cleeve, (November 22, 1921 – March 11, 2003) was a prolific writer and popular TV broadcaster, who lived in Ireland for most of his life . ... Kate Chopin (born Katherine OFlaherty on February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a Louisiana Creole background. ... John Collier (May 3, 1901-April 6, 1980) was a British-born author and screenplay writer best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. ... Frank Conroy (January 15, 1936 - April 6, 2005) was an American author, born in New York, New York. ... Robert Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. ... For the U.S. Continental Congress delegate, see Stephen Crane (delegate). ... Catherine Crowe (STEVENS) (1800 - 1876), wrote dramas, childrens books, and one or two novels, including Susan Hopley (1841), and Lilly Dawson (1847), but is chiefly remembered for her Night-side of Nature (1848), a collection of stories of the supernatural. ... Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. ... Julio Cortázar (August 26, 1914 - February 12, 1984) was an Argentine intellectual and author of several experimental novels and many short stories. ... Archibald Joseph Cronin (July 19, 1896–January 6, 1981) was a Scottish novelist, dramatist, and nonfiction writer who was one of the most renowned storytellers of the twentieth century. ... Roald Dahl (IPA: ) (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a Welsh novelist, short story author and screenwriter of Norwegian parentage, famous as a writer for both children and adults. ... Avram Davidson (April 23, 1923 – May 8, 1993) was a writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many unclassifiable but unforgetable stories that do not fit into a genre niche. ... Peter Ho Davies is the 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship winner and author of The Ugliest House in the World. ... Lydia Davis is a contemporary American author and translator of French. ... Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer, mostly known for his works of science fiction. ... Paul Di Filippo is a science fiction writer born October 29, 1954 in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Jeff Doyle (born September 5, 1955) an American erotic book author. ... Andre Dubus (August 11, 1936 - February 24, 1999) was an American short story writer, essayist, and autobiographer. ... Andy Duncan (born September 21, 1964) is an award-winning American science fiction and fantasy writer whose work frequently deals with Southern themes. ... Stuart Dybek (b. ... Dave Eggers at the 2005 Hay Festival Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. ... Aaron Elliott, better known as Aaron Cometbus, is the author of Cometbus, a seminal punk rock zine. ... Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, teleplays, essays, and criticism. ...

Letters F-L

• Jack Finney (1911–1995)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
• Rubem Fonseca (born 1925)
• John M. Ford (1957-2006)
• Richard Ford (born 1944)
• Thelma Forshaw (1923-1995)
• Eugie Foster (born 1971)
• Jacques Futrelle (1875-1912)
• Neil Gaiman (born 1960)
• Mavis Gallant (born 1922)
• Paul Gallico (1897-1976)
• Gabriel García Márquez (born 1928)
• Larry Mike Garmon (born1955)
• William H. Gass (born 1924)
• Tim Gautreaux
• William Gibson (born 1948)
• Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
• Ben K. Green (died 1974)
• Graham Greene (1904-1991)
• Davis Grubb (1919-1980)
• Richard Guest (born 1967)
• Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977)
• Barry Hannah (born 1942)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
• Victor Heck (born 1967)
• Jim Heitmeyer (born 1950)
• Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
• Amy Hempel (born 1951)
• O. Henry (1862-1910)
• Hans Herbjørnsrud (born 1938)
• Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995)
• Hugh Hood (1928-2000)
• Rhys Hughes (born 1966)
• Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
• Aamer Hussein (born 1955)
• Hwang Sun-wŏn (born 1915)
• Yusuf Idris (1927-1991)
• Washington Irving (1783-1859)
• Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)
• M.R. James (1862-1936)
• Denis Johnson (born 1949)
• Edward P. Jones (born 1951)
• Thom Jones (born 1945)
• James Joyce
• Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
• Wladimir Kaminer (born 1967)
• Stephen King (born 1947)
• R. A. Lafferty (1914-2002)
• Jhumpa Lahiri (born 1967)
• Joe R. Lansdale (born 1951)
• Ring Lardner (1885-1933)
• D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
• Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
• Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929)
• Murray Leinster (born 1896)
• Doris Lessing (born 1919)
• Primo Levi (1919-1987)
• William Levy (born 1939)
• Luis López Nieves (born 1950)
• Thomas Ligotti (born 1951)
• Meer Abdullah Harun (born 1975)
• Kelly Link (born 1969)
• Jack London (1876-1916)
• H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)

Jack Finney (October 2, 1911 - November 16, 1995) was an American author. ... Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. ... Rubem Fonseca (born May 11, 1925) is an important Brazilian writer. ... John M. Ford portrait 2000 John Milo Mike Ford (April 10, 1957 – September 25, 2006) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet. ... Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 - April 15, 1912), born in Pike County, Georgia, was an American writer. ... Neil Richard Gaiman (IPA: ) (born November 10, 1960[2]) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, and films. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Paul Gallico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897-July 15, 1976) was a fabulously successful U.S. novelist and short story writer. ... Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez, also known as Gabo (born March 6, 1927[1] in Aracataca, Colombia) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, editor, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Larry Mike Garmon is the author of several young adult mysteries and thrillers as well as childrens poetry and adult horror. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... William H. Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic and former philosophy professor. ... Tim Gautreaux is a novelist and short story writer who lives in Hammond, Louisiana, where he is director of the creative writing program at Southeastern Louisiana University. ... For other persons named William Gibson, see William Gibson (disambiguation). ... Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Russian: ; IPA: ; Ukrainian: ) (April 1, 1809 — March 4, 1852) was a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin. ... Ben K. Green wrote about his favorite subject, the not-so-old American west. ... This article is about the writer Graham Greene. ... Davis Grubb (July 23, 1919 - July 24, 1980) was an American novelist and short story writer. ... Richard Guest (born August 14, 1967) is an artist and short story author. ... Edmond Hamilton (November 21, 1904 - February 1, 1977) began writing science fiction with the story The Monster God of Mamurth in 1928. ... Barry Hannah (born 1942) is an American novelist and short story writer. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. ... Victor Heck, born David Nordhaus, July 20, 1967, in St. ... Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. ... Amy Hempel (born December 14, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is a short story writer, journalist and university professor at Bennington College living in New York. ... O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), whose clever use of twist endings in his stories popularized the term O. Henry Ending. ... Hans Herbjørnsrud (born 2 January 1938 in Heddal) is a Norwegian author of short stories. ... 1962 publicity photo of Patricia Highsmith Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995) was an American novelist who is known mainly for her psychological thrillers which have led to more than two dozen film adaptations. ... Hugh Hood (April 30, 1928 - August 1, 2000) was a novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor. ... Rhys Henry Hughes is a Welsh writer and essayist born on September 24, 1966 in Cardiff. ... Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. ... Hwang Sun-wŏn (1915 - 2000), was a Korean novelist and poet. ... Yusuf Idris (Arabic: يوسف ادريس Transliteration: YÅ«suf IdrÄ«s ) (1927 - 1991) was an Egyptian writer of plays, short stories, and novels. ... Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. ... Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1916 [1] – August 8, 1965) was an influential American author. ... Montague Rhodes James, (August 1, 1862–June 12, 1936). ... For Denis Johnson from London, who invented the bicycle forerunner called hobby horse, see Denis Johnson of London. ... Edward P. Jones is an African American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. ... Thom Jones (born 1945) is an American writer, primarily of short stories. ... This article is about the writer and poet. ... Kafka redirects here. ... Wladimir Kaminer, (born July 19, 1967), is a Russian-born German short story writer, columnist, and disc jockey. ... For other persons named Stephen King, see Stephen King (disambiguation). ... Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (November 7, 1914 - March 18, 2002) was a noted science fiction and fantasy writer of Irish descent, famous for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure[1], as well as for his etymological wit. ... Jhumpa Lahiri Vourvoulias (born Nilanjana Sudeshna in 1967) (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী Jhumpa LahiÅ—i) is a contemporary Indian American author based in New York City. ... Joe R. Lansdale is an author from Texas. ... Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 - September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre. ... D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, certainly one of the most controversial, English writers of the 20th century, who wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. ... Henry Lawson, circa 1902 Henry Lawson[1] (17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and poet. ... Ursula Kroeber Le Guin [ˌɜɹsÉ™lÉ™ ËŒkɹobɜɹ ləˈgWɪn] (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. ... Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 in Norfolk, Virginia- June 8, 1975) was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. ... Doris Lessing CH OBE (born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Iran,[1] on 22 October 1919[2]) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook. ... Primo Michele Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, and novels. ... William Levy (born January 10, 1939), known as the Talmudic Wizard of Amsterdam and Dr. Doo-Wop, is the author of such works as The Virgin Sperm Dancer, Wet Dreams, Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound and Natural Jewboy. ... Luis López Nieves (born in 1950) is one of the most important and best-selling Puerto Rican authors. ... Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953, in Detroit, Michigan) is a writer of horror stories. ... Kelly Link is an American author of short stories born in 1969 (judging by this 2001 article). ... For other persons named Jack London, see Jack London (disambiguation). ... This article is about the author. ... Fitz Hugh Ludlow Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as “Fitzhugh Ludlow,” (September 11, 1836 – September 12, 1870) was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best-known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater (1857). ...

Letters M-R

• Darko Macan (born 1966)
• John D. MacDonald (1916-1986)
• Ian R. MacLeod (born 1956)
• Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)
• Barry N. Malzberg (born 1939)
• Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
• Bobbie Ann Mason (born 1942)
• W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
• Julian May (born 1931)
• John McGahern (1934-2006)
• Reginald McKnight
• Herman Melville (1819-1891)
• Holdemar Menezes (1921-1996)
• William Michaelian (born 1956)
• Steven Millhauser (born 1943)
• Edward Page Mitchell (1852-1927)
• Lorrie Moore (born 1957)
• Mary McGarry Morris (born 1943)
• Bharati Mukherjee (born 1940)
• Alice Munro (born 1931)
• H.H. Munro ('Saki') (1870-1916)
• R.K. Narayan (1906-2001)
• Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938)
• Tim O'Brien (born 1946)
• Joe M. O'Connell (born 1959)
• Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
• Frank O'Connor (1903-1966)
• Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984)
• John O'Hara (1905-1970)
• Rodrigues Ottolengui (1861-1937)
• Grace Paley (born 1922)
• Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
• Dalibor Perkovic (born 1974)
• Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
• James Plunkett (1920-2003)
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
• Eileen Pollack
• Neal Pollack (born 1970)
• Annie Proulx (born 1935)
• Bolesław Prus (1847-1912)
• José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (born 1971)
• Philip Roth (born 1933)
• Damon Runyon (1884-1947)

A cover of the Q strip comics magazine. ... John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986), writing as John D. MacDonald, was an American writer best known for his series of detective novels featuring protagonist Travis McGee. ... Ian R. MacLeod (born 1956) was born in Solihull, United Kingdom. ... This article is about the Egyptian novelist. ... Barry N. Malzberg (born 1939) is an American writer and editor, most often of science fiction and fantasy; initially in his post-graduate work he sought to establish himself as a playwright as well as prose-fiction writer. ... Katherine Mansfield (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction. ... Bobbie Ann Mason (born 1940) is a modern American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and literary critic. ... W. Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. ... Guy de Maupassant. ... Julian May (born July 10, 1931) is an American science fiction writer, best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile (Saga of the Exiles in the UK) and Galactic Milieu books. ... John McGahern (November 12, 1934 – March 30, 2006) was an Irish writer (in English). ... Reginald McKnight is an American short story author and novelist. ... Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. ... Holdemar Menezes (December 13, 1921 - August 19, 1996) was a Brazilian writer. ... William Michaelian, (born May 20, 1956) is a novelist, short-story writer, and poet. ... Steven Millhauser (born 3 August 1943 in New York City) is perhaps one of modern American fictions most elusive characters. ... b. ... Lorrie Moore is a novelist and writer of short stories. ... Mary McGarry Morris (born February 10, 1943) is an American novelist. ... Bharati Mukherjee (born July 27, 1940) is an award-winning Indian born American writer. ... Alice Ann Munro, née Laidlaw (born 10 July 1931) is an award-winning Canadian short story writer who is widely considered an important writer in that form. ... Saki (December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and outrageous stories satirized the Edwardian social scene in macabre and cruel ways. ... R.K. Narayan - 1906 - 2001 Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan (October 10, 1906 - May 13, 2001) was an Indian novelist. ... Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author and the Roger S. Berlind 52 Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978. ... Tim OBrien Tim OBrien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist who mainly writes about his experiences in the Vietnam War and the impact the war had on the American soldiers who fought there. ... Joe M. OConnell is an American novelist, short story writer and journalist based in Austin, Texas. ... Mary Flannery OConnor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. ... For the actor, husband of Ayn Rand, see Frank OConnor (actor). ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... For other persons named John OHara, see John OHara (disambiguation). ... Rodrigues Ottolengui (1861 - July 11, 1937) was an American writer and dentist of Sephardic descent. ... Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 - August 22, 2007) was an American short story writer, poet, and political activist whose work won a number of awards. ... Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles. ... Dalibor Perkovic (born 1974) is a science fiction and fantasy writer from Zagreb, Croatia. ... Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. ... James Plunkett was the pen-name adopted by James Plunkett Kelly, an Irish writer born in Dublin on May 21 1920 and died on Wednesday 28th May 2003. ... Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, literary critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ... Eileen Pollack is a novelist, essayist, and author of short fictions. ... Neal Pollack is an American satirist currently living in Austin, Texas. ... E. Annie Proulx (born August 22, 1935) is an author who is best known for her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994. ... Bolesław Prus Bolesław Prus (pronounced: [bɔlεswaf prus]; August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912), born Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish journalist, short-story writer, and novelist. ... Jose Luis Rodriguez Pitti (Panamá, 1971) is a contemporary writer, documentary photographer, and computer systems engineer. ... Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey[1]) is a famous American novelist. ... Damon Runyon Damon Runyon (October 4, 1884 – December 10, 1946) was a newspaperman and writer. ...

Letters S-T

• J. D. Salinger (born 1919)
• James Salter (born 1925)
• José María Sánchez (1918-1973)
• "Saki", see H. H. Munro
• Sérgio Sant'Anna
• Sarojini Sahoo (born 1956)
• George Saunders (born 1958)
• Robert Sheckley (born 1928)
• Lucius Shepard (born 1947)
• Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
• Robert Silverberg (born 1935)
• Mona Simpson (born 1957)
• Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991)
• Jaspreet Singh
• George Singleton (born 1958)
• Bruce Sterling (born 1954)
• Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902)
• Charles Stross (born 1964)
• Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985)
• Michael Swanwick (born 1950)
• Zakaria Tamer (born 1931)
• Peter Taylor (1917-1994)
• William Tenn (pseudonym of Philip Klass) (born 1920)
• Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1883 – 1945)
• Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
• William Trevor (born 1928)
• Sergio Troncoso (born 1961)
• Harry Turtledove (born 1949)
• Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) (pronounced ) is an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye and his reclusive nature. ... James Salter (born 1925) is an American short story writer and novelist. ... Saki (December 18, 1870 – November 14, 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. ... Saki (December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and outrageous stories satirised the Edwardian social scene in macabre and cruel ways. ... Sérgio SantAnna is an important Brazilian writer, who was born in Rio de Janeiro city, state of Rio de Janeiro, in 1941. ... Dr. Sarojini Sahoo (born 1956) is an Indian feminist writer who has received the Orissa Sahitya Academy Award, 1993, the Jhankar Award, 1992, the Bhubaneswar Book Fair Award and the Prajatantra Award. ... George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an acclaimed American writer of short stories. ... Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American author. ... Lucius Shepard (born August 1947, Lynchburg, Virginia, though stories and articles published under his name from 1952-1955 in Collins Magazine indicate that he may be several years older than is officially claimed) is an American writer whose work transcends easy categorization. ... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. ... At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Robert Silverberg (January 15, 1935, Brooklyn, New York) is a prolific American author best known for writing science fiction, a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. ... Mona Simpson (born June 14, 1957) is a novelist and essayist. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Jaspreet Singh is a writer. ... George Singleton is a Southern author who has written several collections of short stories and one novel. ... For other persons named Bruce Sterling, see Bruce Sterling (disambiguation). ... Frank Stockton, from an illustration in the 1903 publication of The Captains Toll-Gate Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative childrens fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades... Charles David George Charlie Stross (born Leeds, October 18, 1964) is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... Theodore Sturgeon (February 26, 1918 Staten Island, New York – May 8, 1985) was an American science fiction author. ... At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950) is an American science fiction author. ... Zakaria tamer(Arabic: ‎ (born January 2nd, 1931) is a Syrian writer. ... Peter Taylor (January 8, 1917-November 2, 1994) was an American short-story writer and novelist, whose work depicts the changing world of the South as its rural society gave way to industralization. ... William Tenn is the pseudonym for the science fiction work of Philip Klass (born May 9, 1920). ... This article is about Philip Julian Klass, the UFO researcher. ... Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi. ... Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy(Lyof, Lyoff) (September 9 [O.S. August 28] 1828 – November 20 [O.S. November 7] 1910) (Russian: , IPA:  ), commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer – novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher – as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. ... William Trevor, KBE (born May 24, 1928) is a short story writer, novelist and playwright of Irish origin, later living in Devon in England. ... Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso is an American author of short stories and novels. ... Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American historian and prolific novelist who has written historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction works. ... Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humanist,[2] humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. ...

Letters U-W

• Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha(1885-1945)
• John Updike (born 1932)
• Andrew Vachss (born 1942)
• Jeff Vandermeer (born 1968)
• Voltaire (1694-1778)
• Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
• Howard Waldrop (born 1946)
• Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986)
• Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
• Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
• Edmund White (born 1940)
• P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)
• Gene Wolfe (born 1931)
• Tobias Wolff (born 1945)
• Mary Tappan Wright (1851-1917)

Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha (1885 -1945) was the 6th Peethadhipathi of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham, Pithapuram , He was a Great Poet, Freedom Fighter, Social reformer, and a Parliamentarian. ... John Hoyer Updike (born March 18, 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist, poet, short story writer and literary critic. ... Andrew Vachss & Honey Pit Bull, courtesy of Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine Andrew Henry Vachss (born 1942) is an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths. ... Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer (July 7, 1968—) is an American writer, although he has pursued careers in editing and publishing. ... For the singer of the same name, see Voltaire (musician). ... Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... Howard Waldrop (born September 15, 1946) in Houston, Mississippi, and got his degree from the University of Texas. ... Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 - April 5, 1986) was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. ... Eudora Welty (b. ... Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. ... Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is a novelist, short-story writer and critic. ... Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (IPA: ) was a comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ... Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931, New York, New York) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. ... Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. ... Mary Tappan Wright (1851-1917) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her acute characterizations and depictions of academic life. ...

Letters Y-Z

• Richard Yates (1926-1992)
• Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987)
• Gul M. Zhowandai(1905-1988)
• Aleksandar Ziljak (born 1963)