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Author | Writer's highlights | Story | James Agee 
| James Agee was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic. In the 1940s he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous Pulitzer Prize | A Mother's tale | | | | | Sherwood Anderson 
| Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American writer, mainly of short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. That work's influence on American fiction was profound, and its literary voice can be heard in Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell and others. He is most famous for his collection of interrelated short stories, which he began writing in 1919, known as Winesburg, Ohio. He claimed that Hands, the opening story, was the first "real" story he ever wrote. His themes are comparable to those of T. S. Eliot and ther modernist writers. Although his short stories were very successful, Anderson felt the need to write novels. In 1920, he published Poor White, a rather successful novel. He wrote various novels before divorcing Mitchell in 1922 and marrying Elizabeth Prall, two years later. | Stories | Isaac Asimov 
| Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992; was a Russian-born American author, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books. Asimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series. He penned numerous short stories, among them "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time, an accolade that many still find persuasive. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French. His work is not recognized as highly literary, however when we mention Science Fiction genre, his name always come up. | The Complete Short Story Collection | Isaac Babel 
| Isaac Babel was (1894 – January 27, 1940) a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short story writer who was acclaimed by some as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry.” | Red Calvary - Salt (Audio verson) | James Baldwin 
| (August 2, 1924 – November 30, 1987) James Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist, and civil rights activist best known for his novel Go Tell It on the Mountain. | Sonny's Blue | Donald Barthelme 
| Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American author of short fiction and novels. Barthelme's short stories are often exceptionally compact (a form sometimes called "short-short story," "flash fiction," or "sudden fiction"), often focusing only on incident rather than complete narratives. At first, these stories contained short epiphanic moments. Barthelme's stories typically avoid traditional plot structures, relying instead on a steady acculumation of seemingly-unrelated detail. Barthelme's fundamental skepticism and irony distanced him from the modernists' belief in the power of art to reconstruct society, leading most critics to class him as a postmodernist writer. The New Yorker published most of his work: "Come Back, Dr. Caligari in 1964, Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts in 1968, and City Life in 1970. At times it seems that every story Barthelme published was unique, such is his formal originality: for example, a fresh handling of the parodic dramatic monologue in "The School" or a list of 100 numbered sentences and fragments in "The Glass Mountain." | Me and Miss Mandible The School | Ambrose Bierce  | His short stories are considered among the best of the 19th century. He wrote realistically of the terrible things he had seen in the war in such stories as "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", "Killed at Resaca", and "Chickamauga". Bierce was reckoned a master of "pure" English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style. He wrote skillfully in a variety of literary genres, and in addition to his celebrated ghost and war stories he published several volumes of poetry and verse. His Fantastic Fables anticipated the ironic style of grotesquerie that turned into a genre in the 20th century. One of Bierce's most famous works is his much-quoted book, The Devil's Dictionary, originally a newspaper serialization which was first published in book form in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book. It offers an interesting reinterpretation of the English language in which cant and political double-talk are neatly lampooned. Bierce's twelve-volume Collected Works were published in 1909, the seventh volume of which consists solely of The Devil's Dictionary, the title Bierce himself preferred to The Cynic's Word Book. | The dammed thing | Jorge L. Borges 
| Jorge Luis Borges (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine writer, best known in the English-speaking world for his short stories and fictional essays. Borges was also a poet, critic, and translator. Many of his most popular stories concern the nature of time, infinity, mirrors, labyrinths, reality, philosophy, and identity. A number of stories focus on fantastic themes, such as a library containing every possible 410-page text ("The Library of Babel"), a man who forgets nothing he experiences ("Funes, the Memorious"), an artifact through which the user can see everything in the universe ("The Aleph"), and a year of time standing still, given to a man standing before a firing squad ("The Secret Miracle"). The same Borges told more and less realistic stories of South American life, stories of folk heroes, streetfighters, soldiers, gauchos, detectives, historical figures. He mixed the real and the fantastic: fact with fiction. On several occasions, especially early in his career, these mixtures sometimes crossed the line into the realm of hoax or literary forgery.[8] | The Aleph El Sur Labyrinths | Paul Bowles 
| Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American composer, author, and traveler. Bowles published fourteen short story collections. numerous translations, travel articles and an autobiography. His writings are sometimes known for a sparse style with disturbing overtones. | A Distant Episode | Mary Caponegro 
| Mary Caponegro is an American experimental fiction writer whose collections include "Tales from the Next Village", "The Star Cafe", "Five Doubts", and "The Complexities of Intimacy". Her stories appear regularly in Conjunctions and in other periodicals. Her work has been praised for its syntactic complexity and its surreal, fabulist content. | The Star Café | Raymond Carver 
| Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. Carver is considered a major American writer of the late 20th century and also a major force in the revitalization of the short story in the 1980s.Carver's career was dedicated to short stories and poetry. He described himself as "inclined toward brevity and intensity" and "hooked on writing short stories". Minimalism is generally seen as one of the hallmarks of Carver's work. His editor at Esquire magazine, Gordon Lish, was instrumental in shaping Carver's prose in this direction - where his earlier tutor John Gardner had advised Carver to use fifteen words instead of twenty-five, Gordon Lish instructed Carver to use five in place of fifteen. Collections: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (first published 1976), Furious Seasons (1977) What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981) Cathedral (1984), Elephant (1988) | Cathedral | Willa Carther 
| Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels n 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, published in 1922. This work had been inspired by reading her cousin G.P. Cather's wartime letters home to his mother. He was the first officer from Nebraska killed in World War I. Those letters are now held in the George Cather Ray Collection at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries .such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. Cather was celebrated by critics like H.L. Mencken for writing in plainspoken language about ordinary people. When novelist Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he paid homage to her by saying that Cather should have won the honor. | The Troll Garden and selected stories | John Cheever 
| John Cheever (May 27, 1912–June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." A compilation of his short stories, The Stories of John Cheever, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. On April 27, 1982, six weeks before his death, Cheever was awarded the National Medal for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. | Goodbye, My brother The Swimmer (Audio) | Anton Chekhov 
| Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (January 29 , 1860 and died on July 15 1904) He was a Russian short story writer and playwright. His playwriting career produced four classics, while his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later employed by Virginia Woolf and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure. | Gooseberries | Joseph Conrad 
| Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish novelist.
Conrad is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, V.S. Naipaul and John Maxwell Coetzee. Conrad's novels and stories have also inspired such films as Sabotage (1936, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Conrad's The Secret Agent); Apocalypse Now (1979, adapted from Conrad's Heart of Darkness); The Duellists (a 1977 Ridley Scott adaptation of Conrad's The Duel, from A Set of Six); and a 1996 film inspired by The Secret Agent, starring Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette and Gérard Depardieu. | Heart of Darkness | Julio Cortázar  | Julio Cortázar is highly regarded as a master of short story narrations.[citation needed] Collections like Bestiario (1951), Final del juego (1956) and Las armas secretas (1959) contain many of the best examples of surrealist writing in postmodern literature. Selections from those volumes were published in 1967 in English translations by Paul Blackburn under the title Blow-Up and Other Stories in deference to the English title of Michelangelo Antonioni's celebrated film noir of 1966 (Blowup) inspired by Julio Cortázar's story Las Babas del Diablo. One of his most notable short fictions is El Perseguidor based on the life of jazz musician Charlie Parker. He also published several novels, including Los Premios (The Winners - 1960), Hopscotch (Rayuela -1963), 62: A Model Kit (62 Modelo para Armar - 1968) and Libro de Manuel (A Manual for Manuel - 1973). They were later translated by Gregory Rabassa. Julio Cortázar's masterpiece,[citation needed] Hopscotch, has been praised by other Latin American writers including José Lezama Lima, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.[citation needed] The novel has an open-ended structure that invites the reader to choose between a linear and a non-linear mode of reading. Cortázar's employment of interior monologue and stream of consciousness is reminiscent of modernists like James Joyce, but his main influences were Surrealism, the French Nouveau roman and the improvisatory aesthetic of jazz. | Axolotl (Audio - english) | E.M. Forster 
| Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970), was an English novelist, short shory writer, essayistand librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy and also the attitudes towards gender and homosexuality in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect". Forster is noted for his use of symbolism as a technique in his novels, and he has been criticised (as by his friend Roger Fry) for his attachment to mysticism. One example of his symbolism is the wych elm tree in Howards End; the characters of Mrs Wilcox in that novel and Mrs Moore in A Passage to India have a mystical link with the past and a striking ability to connect with people from beyond their own circles. | The Celestial Omnibus and other stories | Molly Giles 
| Molly Giles is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Arkansas and the author of two short story collections, Rough Translations and Creek Walk and Other Stories. She has won several awards for her writing, including the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Boston Globe Award for Short Fiction, and the Small Press Best Fiction/ Short Story Award. | Pie Dance | Lars Gustafsson 
| Lars Gustafsson is one of the most prolific Swedish writers since August Strindberg. Since the late 1950s he has produced a voluminous flow of poetry, novels, short stories, critical essays, and editorials. He is also one of the few Swedish writers who has gained international recognition with literary awards such as the Prix International Charles Veillon des Essais in 1983, the Heinrich Steffens Preis in 1986, Una Vita per la Litteratura in 1989, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for poetry in 1994, and several others. His major works have been translated into fifteen languages, and Harold Bloom includes Gustafsson in The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (1994). While the problem of identity has been the defining theme of Gustafsson's writings, his social criticism has often vexed the Swedish cultural elite. As a result he is seen as a controversial writer in Sweden rather than as one embraced by the establishment. | Greatness Strikes | O. Henry  | O. Henry (1862-1910) was a prolific American short-story writer, a master of surprise endings, who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. A twist of plot, which turns on an ironic or coincidental circumstance, is typical of O. Henry's stories. | The Gift of the Magi | James Joyce 
| James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce's technical innovations in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue; he used a complex network of symbolic parallels drawn from the mythology, history, and literature, and created a unique language of invented words, puns, and allusions. | The Dead | Franz Kafka 
| Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech-born German writer is best known for his short story Metamorphosis (1912) and the widespread familiarity of the literary term Kafkaesque, inspired by his nightmarishly complex and bizarre yet absurd and impersonal short stories. | In the Penal Metamorphosis | Jamaica Kincaid 
| Jamaica Kincaid (b. Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson, 25 May 1949 in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda) is an American novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She lives with her family at North Bennington in the U.S. state of Vermont. | Girl | Jack London 
| Jack London (1876-1916), iconic American author wrote Call of the Wild (1903); On this novel, with Buck the dog as protagonist, London exposes the fine line between civility and the violence of nature, and the at-times harsh and cruel world created by men in their greed for fame and fortune. Cleverly portraying the animals' point of view White Fang (1906) follows similar themes. As the two most popular novels of London's based on his own life experiences in the Yukon, they have inspired numerous authors' works, and adaptations for television and film. During his short lifetime of forty years, London developed great passions for sailing, travelling, ranching, and the wilderness, and his works encompass the myriad interests he embraced to the full. On short stories, his best known is "To Build a Fire" | Short story Collection | D. H. Lawrence 
| Lawrence wrote many short stories. The best-known include The Captain's Doll, The Fox, The Ladybird, Odour of Chrysanthemums, The Princess, The Rocking-Horse Winner, St Mawr, The Virgin and the Gypsy and The Woman who Rode Away. (The Virgin and the Gypsy was published after he died as a novella.) Among his most praised collections, The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, published in 1916, provides insight into Lawrence's attitudes during World War I. His collection The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories, published in 1928, develops his themes of leadership that he also explored in novels such as Kangaroo,The Plumed Serpent and Fanny and Annie. | The Princess | Clarice Lispector 
| Clarice Lispector , 1925-77, Brazilian author, b. Ukraine. An editor, translator, newspaper columnist, and law student as well as fiction writer, Lispector traveled widely and was influenced by Virginia Woolf and Katharine Mansfield. Many of her nine novels, e.g., The Apple in the Dark (1961, tr. 1967) and The Hour of the Star (1977, tr. 1986), and eight short-story collections, e.g., Family Ties (1960, tr. 1972) and Soulstorm (1989), focus on human isolation and moral uncertainty. | Amor (Spanish version) | Katherine Mansfield 
| Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923, British author, b. New Zealand, regarded as one of the masters of the short story. Her first volume of short stories, In a German Pension (1911), was not remarkable and achieved little notice, but the stories in Bliss (1920) and The Garden Party (1922) established her as a major writer. Later volumes of stories include The Dove's Nest (1923) and Something Childish (1924; U.S. ed. The Little Girl, 1924). Her collected stories appeared in 1937. Novels and Novelists (1930) is a compilation of critical essays. Mansfield's stories, which reveal the influence of Chekhov, are simple in form, luminous and evocative in substance. With delicate plainness they present elusive moments of decision, defeat, and small triumph. After her death Murry culled a number of books from her notebooks, editing her poems (1923, new ed. 1930), her journals (1927), her letters (1928), and a collection of unfinished pieces from her notebooks (1939). | The daughters of the late Colonel Cuentos Escogidos | Alice Munro 
| Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short-story writer and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Widely considered one of the finest living English-language short story writers,[citation needed] her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. While most of Munro’s fiction is set in Southwestern Ontario, her reputation as a short-story writer is international. Her "accessible, moving stories" explore human complexities in a seemingly effortless style.[1] Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction," or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov."[2] | Labor Day Dinner | Vladimir Nabokov 
| Nabokov, Vladimir (1899–1977) US novelist, b. Russia. His debut novel was Mary (1926). The rise of fascism forced Nabokov to flee, first to France then to the USA (1940). His first novel in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1938). Nabokov composed some of the greatest imaginative novels of the 20th century. Bend Sinister (1947) is a political novel on authoritarianism. His best-selling work, Lolita (1955), is a controversial, lyrical novel about an old man's desire for a 12-year old ‘nymphette’. Other works include Pnin (1957), Pale Fire (1962), and Ada (1969). | Signs and symbols | Tim O' Brien 
| Tim O'Brien (b. 1946) was born in Austin, Minnesota, attended public schools, and received a B.A. summa cum laude from Macalester College. Immediately following graduation, he was drafted into the U.S. Army (1968-1970), earning a Purple Heart medal. On his return to civilian life, he pursued graduate work at Harvard University and worked as a national affairs reporter for the Washington Post. His first novel, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (1973), is a semifictionalized account of his own Vietnam experiences. All of O'Brien's novels are either set in Vietnam or focus on characters haunted by the war: Northern Lights (1975), Going after Cacciato (1978), which won a National Book Award, The Nuclear Age (1985), The Things They Carried (1990), and In the Lake of the Woods (1994). | The Things they carried | Flannery O'Connor 
| Flannery O'Connor (Mary Flannery O'Connor), 1925-64, American author, b. Savannah, Ga., grad. Women's College of Georgia (A.B., 1945), Iowa State Univ. (M.F.A., 1947). As a writer, O'Connor is highly regarded for her bizarre imagination, uncompromising moral vision, and superb literary style. Combining the grotesque and the gothic, her fiction treats contemporary Southern life in terms of stark, brutal comedy and violent tragedy. Her characters, although often deformed in both body and spirit, are impelled toward redemption. All of O'Connor's fiction reflects her strong Roman Catholic faith. Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960) are novels focusing on religious fanaticism; A Good Man Is Hard To Find (1955) and Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) are short-story collections. Her Collected Stories was published in 1971. | A Good man is hard to find | Tillie Olsen 
| Olsen was born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Wahoo, Nebraska and moved to Omaha while a young child. There she attended Lake School in the Near North Side through the eighth grade, living among the city's Jewish community. At age 15, she dropped out of Omaha High School to enter the work force. Over the years Olsen worked as a waitress, domestic worker, and meat trimmer. She was also a union organizer and political activist in the Socialist community. In the 1930s she joined the American Communist party. She was briefly jailed in 1934 while organizing a packing house workers' union (the charge was "making loud and unusual noise"), an experience she wrote about in The Nation and The Partisan Review. She later moved to San Francisco, California which was her home until her 85th year when she moved to Berkeley, California, to a cottage behind her youngest daughter's home. | I Stand Here Ironing | Grace Paley  | 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. Following the success of Little Disturbances of Man, Paley's publisher encouraged her to write a novel. However, after several years of tinkering with drafts, Paley abandoned the project and turned back to short fiction. In 1974 Paley assembled a second collection of fiction in 1974, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute. This collection of seventeen stories features several recurring characters from Little Disturbances of Man (most notably the narrator "Faith," but also including Johnny Raferty and his mother), while continuing Paley's exploration of racial, gender, and class issues. The collection's shifting narrative voice, metafictive qualities, and fragmented, incomplete plots have led most critics to classify it as a postmodernist work. Paley continues the stories of Faith and her neighbors in the collection Later the Same Day (1985). All three volumes were gathered in her 1994 Collected Stories, which was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Paley's other honors include a 1961 Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction, the Edith Wharton Award (1983), the Rea Award for the Short Story (1993) the Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1993), and the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award for Literary Arts (1994). | Somewhere Else | Saki 
| Hector Hugh Munro (December 18, 1870 – November 13, 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, was a Britishwriter, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. "The Open Window" may be his most famous, with a closing line ("Romance at short notice was her speciality") that has entered the lexicon. Some of his best other stories are: "The Interlopers", The Schartz-Metterklume Method", The Toys of Peace", "The Unrest-Cure". | The Open Window The Chronicles of Clovis | Delmore Schwartz 
| Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short-story writer from Brooklyn, New York. Much of Schwartz's work is notable for its philosophical and deeply meditative nature, and the literary critic, R.W. Flint, wrote that Schwartz's stories were, "the definitive portrait of the Jewish middle class in New York during the Depression." Unfortunately, he was unable to repeat or build on his early successes later in life as a result of alcoholism and mental illness, and his last years were spent in isolation in the Hotel Marlon in New York City (this downward spiral following his initial success formed the basis for Saul Bellow's novel Humboldt's Gift (1975). In fact, he was so cut off from the rest of the world that when he died on July 11, 1966 at age 53, two days passed before his body was identified. | In dreams begin responsabilities (audio) | Leslie Marmon Silko 
| Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon on March 5, 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second wave of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 1981. | The Man to send rain clouds | | | | | | Stevenson | | Books | Leo Tolstoy 
| Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian author, novelist, essayist and philosopher wrote the epic novel War and Peace (1865-69). His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Anna Karenina (1877), which Tolstoy regarded as his first true novel, was one of his most impeccably constructed and compositionally sophisticated works. It tells parallel stories of an adulterous woman trapped by the conventions and falsities of society and of a philosophical landowner (much like Tolstoy) who works alongside the peasants in the fields and seeks to reform their lives. His last novel was Resurrection, published in 1899, which told the story of a nobleman seeking redemption for a sin committed years earlier and incorporated many of Tolstoy's refashioned views on life. An additional short novel, Hadji Murat, was published posthumously in 1912. His novellas include A Landowner's Morning (1856), Family Happiness (1859) and The Devil (1889-90). | The Forged Coupon | John Updike 
| John Hoyer Updike (born March 18, 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist, poet, short story writer and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest received the Pulitzer Prize. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class," The Widows of Eastwick, John Updike's sequel to the 1984 best seller The Witches of Eastwick, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in October 2008. A large anthology of short stories from his literary career, titled The Early Stories 1953–1975 (2003) won the 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2006 Updike was awarded the Rea Award for the Short Story for outstanding achievement in that genre. | In honor of John Updike here is a Rare Interview | Alice Walker 
| Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 10, 1944) is an American author, self-declared feminist and womanist - the latter a term she herself coined to make special distinction for the experiences of women of color. She has written at length on issues of race and gender, and is most famous for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. | The flowers | Eudora Welty 
| Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an award-winning American author and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her first short story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," appeared in 1936. Her work attracted the attention of Katherine Anne Porter, who became a mentor to her and wrote the foreword to Welty's first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green, in 1941. The book immediately established Welty as one of American literature's leading lights and featured the legendary and oft-anthologized stories "Why I Live at the P.O.," "Petrified Man," and "A Worn Path." Her novel, The Optimist's Daughter, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. In 1992, Welty was awarded the Rea Award for the Short Story for her lifetime contributions to the American short story, and was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. | No place for you, my love | Jerome Wilson 
| Jerome Wilson, is an american writer from the beautiful state of Tennesse, USA. He is the author of Paper Garden, (from the well known short story anthology - Paper Garden and other stories). This anthology of short stories has been praised by many reviewers and it has received awards from prestigious literary journals such as Ploughshares. Mr. Wilson also apreciate the importance of teaching others good literature. He has taught courses at HBCU LeMoyne-Owen College and Southwest TN. College. Southern Literature said about his collection: "Paper Garden and Other Stories is a vibrant gathering of short stories...Mr. Wilson is a compelling new voice in the genre of southern literature...The dialog of Wilson's characters also trumpets reality without being burdensome". Listen to an sample reading by the author himself. | Paper Garden | Virginia Woolf 
| Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941) was a English author and feminist. Born Adeline Virginia Stephens in London she was brought up and educated at home. In 1895 following the death of her mother she had the first of numerous nervous breakdowns. Following the death of her father (Sir Leslie Stephen, a literary critic) in 1904, she moved with her sister and two brothers to a house in Bloomsbury. She began writing professionally in 1905, initially for the Times Literary Supplement. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, a civil servant and political theorist. Her first novel, | The mark on the wall Monday or Tuesday | | | | Émile Zola 
| Émile Zola (1840-1902), French author of many works influential in the naturalism literary school including his series of twenty novels written between 1871 and 1893 that follow the Rougon Macquart family starting with The Fortune of the Rougons (1871). The series Nana (1880) represents the underclasses, a prostitute and "devourer of men" who rises among the Parisian elite as a destructive and wholly powerful figure who disrupts conventions and comes to represent the downfall of the Second French Empire. | Nana & other stories | Area 38 | | | Area 39 | * We want to thanks WIKIPEDIA for some of our writer's highlights. | | Area 40 | | | Area 41 | | | Area 42 | | | Area 43 | | | Area 44 | | | Area 45 | | | Area 46 | | | Area 47 | | | Area 48 | | | Area 49 | | | Area 50 | | | Area 51 | | | Area 52 | | | Area 53 | | | Area 54 | | | Area 55 | | | Area 56 | | | Area 57 | | | Area 58 | | | Area 59 | | | Area 60 | | | Area 61 | | | Area 62 | | | Area 63 | | | Area 64 | | | Area 65 | | | Area 66 | | | Area 67 | | | Area 68 | | | Area 69 | | | Area 70 | | | Area 71 | | | Area 72 | | | Area 73 | | | Area 74 | | | Area 75 | | | Area 76 | | | Area 77 | | | Area 78 | | | Area 79 | | | Area 80 | | | Area 81 | | | Area 82 | | | Area 83 | | | Area 84 | | | Area 85 | The End | | Area 86 | THE END | |
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