Great American Short Story Writers by Tina Atack

Jack London (Jason S.)

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Jan. 12 1876-Nov. 22 1916
One of the first American authors to make a large fortune and become very popular internationally
Passionate advocate of worker's rights, animal welfare, and socialism
Lived in California
His real Dad disowned him, then his mom tried to commit suicide, then she got remarried
An oyster pirate in his youth, stealing oysters in the San Francisco harbor
At 21, he sailed to Alaska to participate in the Klondike Gold Rush, but it worsened his health a lot
He went on to write "The Call of the Wild", "To Build a Fire", and "White Fang", all very famous short stories about this time period
His writing was typically hastily written, and is of varying quality
Most famous works involve humankind's inability to overcome nature, or the appeal of the wilderness

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jack-London

Junius Edwards

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Lived from 1929-2008

Grew up in Louisiana and joined the Army at age 18
Used his veteran experience to help pay for college at the University of Oslo (in Norway)
Won first prize in the Writer's Digest Short Story Contest at age 29
Married Inger Marie that same year and had two sons and a daughter
Created one of the first Black-owned advertising companies in NYC
Famous-ish stories include "Duel with the Clock," "Mother Dear and Daddy," and the novel If We Must Die
Has his own website! (juniusedwards.com) (it's blocked)

Kristin Hunter (Kayla Barnes)

2024-11-08 14:29:42 UTC

Kristin Hunter was born in 1931 and died in 2008. She was an African-American short story writer who created works about Black life, the gender divide in the United States, and the human experience. Most of her books are in the form of realistic fiction. Her most well-known books are God Bless the Child, Kinfolks, and Do Unto Others. She has won multiple awards for her literary works and dedicated her life to teaching and writing for the future generations.

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Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, and he died on July 2, 1961. He was born in Illinois and he died in Idaho. He was a novelist, short story writer, and journalist. He said that his writing was influenced by his mother teaching him how to play the cello at a young age. He had 4 wives and 3 children. His writing has influenced many late 20th century writers. He fought in multiple wars. Towards the end of his life he went a little mad and he eventually committed suicide. Hemingway was first a journalist, so his writing uses skilled narrative that often remarked on war. His writing style was typically from other languages, and usually from Spanish literature. Hemingway used the iceberg theory, which is that the facts are on the surface, and all the structure and symbolism operates out of sight. Most of his sentences had a simple structure, allowing all types of readers to enjoy his writing. Hemingway tried to accurately portray emotion, leading to him sometimes being accused of suppressing the emotions of his characters. Three of his most famous short stories are The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, and Hills Like White Elephants.

-Claire Gladden

Sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway#Selected_works

https://interestingliterature.com/2021/12/best-ernest-hemingway-short-stories/

Kate Chopin

2024-11-08 14:29:58 UTC

Kate Chopin was a writer of about 100 short stories and two published novels. She lived from 1850 to 1904. While she was alive her stories were very controversial, getting bad reviews from critics and being banned from local libraries. After her death, her works became much more widely known, for their insight on women’s lives in that time period, as well as her elegant and graceful language. Her stories focused on sensitive and intelligent women. A few of her famous short stories include “The Storm,” “The Story of an Hour,” “Désirée’s Baby,” “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” and many more.

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Source: https://www.katechopin.org/

Shirley Jackson - Bea Higgins

2024-11-08 14:30:11 UTC

Shirley Jackson was an author of many mystery/horror short stories and novels. She lived from December 14, 1916, to August 8, 1965 and was born in San Francisco, California. Over her 49 years she wrote 6 Novels, over 200 short stories, and 2 memoirs. She met her future husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman at Syracuse University in New York. After graduating, the two moved to New York City and contributed to "The New Yorker". Eventually, she moved to Vermont where she had 3 of her 4 children and eventually died of a heart condition in 1965.

Most Famous Stories/Novels:

"The Lottery", "The Haunting of Hill House", and "We Have Always Lived in the Castle"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jackson#:~:text=Jackson's%20most%20famous%20story%2C%20%22The,master%20of%20the%20horror%20tale.

Ray Bradbury | Eli Russell

2024-11-08 14:30:52 UTC

Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, and died on June 5, 2012. He is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451, as well as a lot of his short stories like The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and The October Country. Many of his books have been adapted into TV Shows and comic books. Ray Bradbury started writing at the early age of 12, and published his first short story at 18.

Sources:

Britannica

Wikipedia

O. Henry

2024-11-08 14:30:59 UTC

O. Henry was born September 11th, 1862, in Greensboro, NC. He died June 5, 1910, in New York

O Henry's real name was William Sydney Porter, and he was only known as O. Henry for eight years.

Henry wrote short stories that were often funny, with a surprise ending or a tearful smile.

Irony, metaphors, and exaggeration were common throughout the works of O. Henry.

"The Gift of Magi" and "The trimmed lamp" are some of his most famous stories.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/O-Henry

https://library.austintexas.gov/ahc/o-henry-biography

Ernest Hemingway

2024-11-08 15:02:45 UTC

Ernest Hemingway was an American short-story writer and novelist. He was born July 21, 1899 in Cicero (now in Oak Park), Illinois. He died on July 2, 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. A notable feature of Hemingway's writing was its extreme masculinity. The language he used in his writing was simple, direct, and concise.

Some of his noteworthy novels are The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and A Moveable Feast. Some of his best short stories are The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, and Hills Like White Elephants.

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Hemingway

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1082796.pdf

https://interestingliterature.com/2021/12/best-ernest-hemingway-short-stories/

https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/g44589541/ernest-hemingway-books

By Cameron

Raymond Carver By CJ Thomas

2024-11-08 15:03:33 UTC

Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. He was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938 and died in Port Angeles, Washington, in 1988. Carver's writing technique is characterized by what is often called "dirty realism". He is most known for his short story collections such as "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" and "Cathedral". He is regarded as one of the most prominent American short story writers in history.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Raymond-Carver

Mark Twain - Emma Chou

2024-11-08 16:16:17 UTC

Mark Twain is the pseudonym for writer Samuel Clemens. Clemens was born on November 30‚ 1835 in Florida‚ Missouri. He died on April 21, 1910 (age 74 years) in Redding, CT, from angina pectoris. Mark Twain’s characters use language that you would use everyday, like in normal conversation. He also uses vivid imagery and features humor and social criticism as a plot, frequently. Some of his most well known literary pieces are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

https://marktwainhouse.org/about/mark-twain/biography/#:~:text=Samuel%20Clemens%20was%20born%20on,banks%20of%20the%20Mississippi%20River.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/04/22/mark-twain-dies/26326378-bf1f-489c-a457-dae7c50e3e7c/

https://www.twinkl.com/teaching-wiki/mark-twains-writing-style#:~:text=Mark%20Twain's%20writing%20style%20is,of%20travel%20and%20fictional%20narratives.

Langston Hughes

2024-11-08 17:43:40 UTC

Langston Hughes was an activist, writer, and poet who lived from 1901 to 1967. He was famous for being a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance and for his poems, the most famous of which include "I, Too", "Harlem", and "Dreams". He wrote a type of poetry called jazz poetry. He also published "The Ways of White Folks", a collection of short stories. His writing explores themes of racism, music, hope, pride in his heritage, suffering, and more.

Sources:

https://medium.com/zach-strayer/the-interconnecting-themes-of-langston-hughes-works-499662223992

https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/langston-hughes-poems

https://americanliterature.com/author/langston-hughes

Amy Tan

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Amy Tan, the second child of Chinese immigrants, was born in Oakland, California on February 19, 1952. She was best known from her novel "The Joy Luck Club" but she also wrote short story collections. The main characteristic of her writing was the conflict that Chinese Americans faced when they are not in connection with their Chinese heritage and are shunned by the American part of their culture.

Mark Twain

hwmartin2 — 2024-11-08 17:47:19 UTC

- Born Nov. 30, 1835, died Apr. 21, 1910

- Known for his wit, humor, and mastery of language

- Famous short stories include A Dog's Tale, Eve's Diary, and Cannibalism in the Cars

- Mark Twain was his pen name, and his real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

John Updike

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-Born March 18th, 1932

-Died January 27th, 2009

- Themes of writing: Religion, sex, America, and death

-Style of writing: Prose style, rich, unusual, and archiac vocabulary

-Most famous short stories: The Happiest I've Been and A&P

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fp%2FJohn-Updike-Society-100064751231465%2F&psig=AOvVaw3vB0Oa4Dv82gIwdGVOZe80&ust=1731174120022000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CAMQjB1qFwoTCKis-6SkzYkDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbooks%2F2014%2Fmay%2F07%2Ftop-10-john-updike-short-stories&psig=AOvVaw1yWcBnEjjb3rW7jWq8ydrq&ust=1731173833243000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CAYQrpoMahcKEwiAkPycpc2JAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Updike#:~:text=The%20principal%20themes%20in%20Updike's,said%2C%20%22I%20like%20middles.

https://www.macdowell.org/artists/john-updike#:~:text=Updike's%20highly%20distinctive%20prose%20style,squarely%20in%20the%20realist%20tradition.

Ernest Hemingway

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By: Susannah Ghitelman

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park Illinois on July 21st 1899. He passed away in Idaho on July 2nd 1961.
He was the second of SIX children!!
He was known as a journalist, novelist, and mainly - a short story writer. He wrote in an economical, understated style of writing which influenced a lot of future writing.
Hemingway was also greatly recognized as outspoken and for his blunt lifestyle/public image.
Ernest's most famous short stories include: Big Two-Hearted River, Hills Like White Elephants, and The Old Man and the Sea.
Sources:
Picture: https://simplycharly.com/read/blog/10-underrated-works-of-ernest-hemingway-you-should-read/

Information: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1954/hemingway/biographical/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1950/05/13/how-do-you-like-it-now-gentlemen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

Raymond Carver

2024-11-08 17:49:21 UTC

Created by Jaden Jenks Johnson

Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. is an american short story writer and poet. He was born May 25, 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon, and grew up reading novels by Mickey Spillane and publications like Sports Afield and Outdoor Life. Carver published his first collection of stories- Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?- in 1976. Later, in 1981, his breakout collection- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love -was published to immediate critical acclaim, cementing Carver as a significant figure in the writing world. However, he is best known for his short story Cathedral (published 1983), which is widely regarded as his masterpiece. Carver is credited for the revival of the American short story form; his work is described as "minimalism" and "dirty realism", portraying mainly

working-class characters in what has been called "an almost spartan fashion".

Sources:

A Look at the Short Stories of Raymond Carver

The Renaissance Garden Guy

https://renaissancegardenguy.com › a-look-at-the-short-...

Raymond Carver

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Raymond_Carver

O. Henry

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Born: September 11, 1862 in Greensboro, NC
Died: June 5, 1910 in NYC, US
Themes in his writing: Deception, mistaken identity, effects of coincidence, unchangeable nature of fate, etc.
Had lots of irony, metaphors, and exaggeration in his stories making them fun to read.
Wrote short stories, poetry, and also non-fiction
Famous works: Gift of the Magi, Cabbages and Kings, Ransom of the Red Chief, and The Cop and the Anthem.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry
https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25867465.pdf

Junius Edwards

2024-11-08 17:49:44 UTC

Junius Edwards was a short story writer who was born in 1929 and died in 2008. He started writing in the 50s and 60s. Edwards authored "Liars Don't Qualify" and "Duel with the Clock",.

Junius Edwards wrote about "... racial, psychological, and personal problems on the African American soldier" from the perspective of black men.

Sources

Shirley Jackson

2024-11-08 17:49:44 UTC

Shirley Jackson produced more than 200 short stories over the course of her 49 year life that stretched from 1916-1965. She went to university in Syracuse where she got intrigued in the literary scene, she ended up meeting her husband in college (they would end up having 4 kids [1]) and they moved to New York City. [2] She was known for horror and first gained fame after a short story of hers (The Lottery) was featured in the New Yorker due to her being a local writer. In her short stories she used mainly foreshadowing and irony to convey her story. [3] Some of her notable stories include Charles, The Possibility of Evil, The Lovely House, Like Mother Use to Make and Lousia, Please Come Home. [4] At the end of her writing career she moved to Vermont and settled down with her husband. [2]

Raymond Carver

2024-11-08 19:06:57 UTC

Raymond Carver was born on May 25, 1938, in Oregon. He was a short story and poetry author who wrote “briefly and intensely”. His stories often reflected on parts of his own life and blue-collar experiences. He was married twice, the first fell out due to alcoholism after Ray fell in love with an editor of Montana state University during a fishing trip. He died on august 2, 1988, due to lung cancer from smoking and abusing substances. Ray has two children, Christine and Vance. He never had writing as a full time career so he jumped around between jobs like a delivery man, janitor and others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Carver

-Liadan Ewing

Toni Cade Bambara

heheacock — 2024-11-08 19:17:39 UTC

Toni Cade Bambara was an American short story writer born March 25th of 1939 in Harlem, New York. She died at the age of 56, December 9th of 1995, in Philadelphia. Her writing typically featured places in the Southern country and the cities of the North. Her stories are known for being written with “Black street dialect” and “colorful language” (Britannica). Her works depict the culture and struggles of the African-American community in the 20th century. Along with being an author, she was also a civil rights activist, teacher, and filmmaker who collaborated on many television series. She played an active role in the Black rights movements and Women’s rights movements, advocating for equality and justness. Her first short story, published the same year in which she earned her BA in English and Theater Arts from Queens College, was called “Sweet Town”. Her first very own collection of short stories was titled, “Gorilla, My Love.” And she is most well known for her novel, “The Salt Eaters”, and her short story, “The Lesson”.

- Haley Heacock

Kate Chopin (Pronounced Shopen not Choppin)

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1850-1904 female short story writer. most well known for her collections of short stories Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night In Acadie (1897) Her work is most notably morbid, vulgar, and disagreeable. Her work appeared in magazines, the likes of Vouge and Atlantic Monthly. She seemed to be forgotten after her passing but was rediscovered by scholars in the 50s

Source

https://www.katechopin.org/

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O. Henry

2024-11-08 20:17:06 UTC

William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was born on a plantation in Greensboro, North Carolina on September 11, 1862.

His writing was vivid and he wass good at using irony, paronomasia, metaphor, metonymy and exaggeration to make his stories "full of fun."

He was also DIDDY.

In 1887, Porter eloped with seventeen year old Athol Estes, (he was 25) an Austin native, who was impressed with both his singing and drawing abilities.

And, of course, his most elegant mustache.

Will and Athol had two children, an infant son who died in 1888 and Margaret Worth Porter, born in 1889. Shortly after, Athol's health began to deteriorate from tuberculosis.

Further disappointments ensued when discrepancies in his accounting at the bank amounted to over $4000, demanding his resignation.

In his desperate situation, he impulsively planned to wait out the statute of limitations in Central America, but he abandoned this plan when he got word that his wife was about to die.

He returned to Austin to care for her and to await his trial. Shortly after his wife's death in 1897, William Porter was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to five years in the federal penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio and he never returned to Texas.

While in prison, Will Porter adopted the pen name O. Henry and began his career as a short story writer. His work was prolific but began to decline, along with his health, after 1907. O. Henry died in New York City in 1910, prior to his forty-eighth birthday.

He was most famous for his works;

"The Gift of the Magi"

"The Duplicity of Hargraves"

"The Ransom of Red Chief"

SOURCES: https://library.austintexas.gov/ahc/o-henry-biography

https://interestingliterature.com/2021/12/best-o-henry-short-stories/

https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/iconfem-16/25867465#:~:text=Henry%20was%20a%20well%2Dknown,the%20story%20full%20of%20fun.

Amy Tan

2024-11-08 20:17:11 UTC

Amy Tan is an American author born in 1952. She is still alive today. She is best know for her stories about her life, including the Chinese American immigration experience and recounting the story of her suicidal mother and grandmother. Her early life was very sad, with her grandmother committing suicide, her dad and brother dying, and her mom being suicidal. Her best known story is "Fish Cheeks", which tells the story of her as a 14 year old girl when her crush is invited to Christmas dinner but is creeped out by her family's different culture.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dbloom/2021/02/02/the-unexpected-loss-amid-amy-tan-unintended-memoir-premiere-at-sundance/#:~:text=Tan's%20father%20and%20older%20brother,previous%2C%20abusive%20marriage%20in%20China.https://study.com/academy/lesson/fish-cheeks-summary-analysis.html#:~:text=%22Fish%20Cheeks%22%20by%20Amy%20Tan%20is%20a%20coming%2Dof,prepared%20with%20traditional%20Chinese%20dishes.

https://www.britannica.com/art/Chinese-literature

Sandra Cisneros

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Sandra Cisneros is an American poet and author of multiple short stories. She was born in Chicago in 1954 to Mexican parents, and her first work of poetry was published in 1980. Her best known works include The House on Mango Street, the memoir A House of My Own: Stories from My Life, and the short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Her writing is known for its themes relating to Mexican American culture and social issues, especially in Chicago. Overall, Sandra Cisneros is widely known as a prolific writer and a pioneer of Mexican American literature.

source:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sandra-Cisneros

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John Updike

2024-11-08 20:17:36 UTC

John Updike was a writer of novels, short stories, and poetry, and was born March 18, 1932 in Pennsylvania and died January 27, 2009 in Massachusetts. He was and is known for his craftsmanship and realistic depiction of "an American, Protestant, small-town, middle-class" life, as well as his highly distinctive prose writing style that features rich and unusual vocabulary which is heard from an authoritative voice that describes the world in an extravagant yet realistic way. His most famous books are his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; and the novella Rabbit Remembered), and he received many honors and awards which include the National Book Award, American Book Award, National Arts Club Medal of Honor, and more. He is remembered to this day and many of his novels are read by adults and children around the world.

Citing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Updike

Jamaica Kincaid

2024-11-08 20:17:47 UTC

Jamaica Kincaid was born on May 25, 1949. Her birth name is Elaine Richardson. She is well known for "Wingless" and "Girl". Kincaid's works stand out "because her tone is often perceived as angry".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Kincaid

Kristin Elaine Hunter By Eric Hito

2024-11-08 20:18:26 UTC

Kristin Elaine Hunter was born on September 12, 1931 and passed away on November 14 of 2008 was an African-American writer from Pennsylvania. A fun fact is that she sometimes wrote under the name Kristin Hunter Lattany. She briefly worked as a teacher, and her stories relate to her experience being an African-American in the united states. She has writen many pieces that include God Bless The Child, and Kinfolks.

Jack London

2024-11-08 20:19:20 UTC

Jack London was born in 1876 in California. His father left and he took the last name of his stepfather. He dropped out of school to try and make money, but eventually ended up in jail. After all that, he studied at public libraries and took a 4-year high school course in only 1 year. He went to a university, but then dropped out to go look for gold. He failed. He decided to try writing for money. Finally, he found his calling in this and wrote 50 works in just 17 years. One short story of his was "To Build a Fire" which was published again in his short story collection Lost Face. His novel The Call of the Wild is more well-known and is a good example of his writing about the wilderness and adventure, which is a theme in several of his works. He also wrote multiple auto-biographies.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jack-London

Alice Walker

scliao — 2024-11-08 20:19:47 UTC

Alice Walker is an author, poet and activist. She was born in 1944 and is still alive today. She mainly writes about the African American life and culture. One of her key features is her style of writing, which sounds and feels very rhythmic and poetic. The first thing she wrote was a poem. The themes she writes about hold a lot of weight, and bring attention to important issues. Alice Walker's most famous short stories are The Flowers, Roselily, Everyday Use, and The Child Who Favored Daughter.

Sources:

https://www.shortstoryguide.com/alice-walker-short-stories/

https://nmaahc.si.edu/alice-walker

https://alicewalkerwritingstyle.wordpress.com/#:~:text=The%20first%20distinctive%20element%20of,her%20career%20as%20a%20poet.

Ray Bradbury

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Aug 22, 1920 - Jun 5, 2012
Imaginative stories that inspire awareness, nostalgia and a pondering of the human existence
His stories are incredibly descriptive with vivid imagery as well as using many similes and metaphors
Loved horror films and books by L. Frank Baum at an early age
Moved to Los Angeles when he was 14, joined the Science Fiction League at 17
At 18 he published his first short story, Hollerbochen’s Dilemma
Weird Tales published most of Bradbury’s early works
Wrote The Veldt, A Sound of Thunder, The Pedestrian, The Long Rain and All Summer in a Day

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ray-Bradbury#:~:text=Ray%20Bradbury%20is%20an%20American,the%20hazards%20of%20runaway%20technology.

Ray Bradbury

2024-11-08 20:19:58 UTC

Ray Bradbury was born in 1910 in Waukegan, Illinois. From a young age, he loved horror films and the stories of L. Frank Baum and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. Soon after an extraordinary experience at a carnival, he began to write full-time. He is known for his short stories and novels that blend a poetic style with "awareness for runaway technology", "nostalgia for childhood", and "social criticism." He wrote his first short story, "Hollerbochen’s Dilemma," in 1938. Some of his most notable stories are ‘'Fahrenheit 451' (1953), A Sound of Thunder’ (1952), ‘The Pedestrian’ (1951), and ‘All Summer in a Day’ (1954).

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ray-Bradbury

https://interestingliterature.com/2022/09/best-ray-bradbury-stories/

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain was born in 1835 and died in 1910. He was born in Florida, Missouri, (yes florida is a real town in missouri) and his actual name is Samuel Clemens. He was the sixth child of his parents and his father worked 4 jobs yet still struggled to feed his family. His father ended up dying in 1847. At 21 years old, he learned to piolit steamboats, and became liscenced after 2 years of training. "Mark Twain" was steamboat slang for 12 feet of water. Soon after becoming employed, the civil war broke out and he became interested in writing. He became a well known storyteller in the west after he moved there. He wrote books using "imaginitive storytelling" and a lot of language and slang. Humour was also a defining detail of his stories. One of his famous short stories, Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, became popular and gave Mark a break from poverty for a bit. His next famous story was "The Innocents Abroad", which he wrote while on a 5-month sea cruise. Another famous short story is "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg". He died on April 21, 1910.

Sources:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99139.The_Best_Short_Stories_of_Mark_Twain

https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/mark-twain

O' Henry

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry

O' Henry was a famous American writer known for his short stories. He was born on September 11, 1862 in Greensboro NC and lived until he was 47 years old. He was born into a middle class family of 3 sons, being the middle. He was only 3 yrs. old when his mother and brother died of tuberculosis. He worked at his uncle's pharmacy after finishing school and became a licensed pharmacist at the age of 19. In March of 1882 he moved onto a Texas ranch, while later moving again and settling in Austin, where he met his first wife. While he maintained his job as a drafter, he started developing characters for his short stories. he was later charged for embezzlement and started serving a five year sentence in 1889. "While imprisoned, Porter published 14 stories under various pseudonyms, one being O. Henry." stated in Wikipedia. He was mostly known for writing non-fiction and poetry. Some of his pieces being: "The Gift of Magi", "The Ransom of Red Chief", "The Duplicity of Hargraves", as well as his novel named "Cabbages and Kings". He was great at using irony, paronomasia, metaphor, metonymy, and exaggeration in his vivid writing style.

Raymond Carver

2024-11-08 20:20:31 UTC

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon on May 25 1938 and died on August 2, 1988. Raymond Carver wrote carefully crafted and highly realistic short stories which made his writing unique. Some of his well known stories are Cathedral, Neighbors, Where I'm calling from.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Carver

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/raymond-carver

Shirley Jackson

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Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco, California on December 14, 1916, and died on August 8, 1965 in North Bennington, Vermont. North Bennington is where she settled with her husband Stanley Edgar Hyman, a literary critic, and her four children.

Her works have a variety of tones, ranging from lighthearted humor to pessimistic and gloomy, though she is most famous for the latter. She wrote 6 novels and over 200 short stories. Her most famous story, The Lottery, gained fame quickly due to its controversial nature, followed by other noteworthy novels like The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Lottery

Gary Soto

2024-11-08 20:26:48 UTC

Born on April 12th 1952 in Fresno, California, Gary Soto is a Mexican-American poet & novelist who is most known for his short story ¨Chato's Kitchen. He has received a prodigious number of awards for his contribution to Human/Civil Rights, & the literature world as a whole. His writing style was heavily influenced by his childhood of living in San Joaquin Valley & his inspiration for becoming a writer, esteemed poet Gabriel García Márquez.

Julia Alvarez

2024-11-08 20:28:58 UTC

Julia Alvarez is an Dominican-American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She was born March 27, 1950 in New York and is currently 74. Her writing mainly are focused on topics such as immigration, assimilation, and identity. Her most famous short stories are "aha moment" portraying one fateful flight taken while on a book tour and "Names/nombres" where she recalls her family's early years as Dominican immigrants in America.

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Jamaica Kincaid

2024-11-08 21:05:25 UTC

Jamaica Kincaid (Originally named Elaine Potter Richardson) is 75 years old and is alive and well to this day. She is an American Short Story writer who writes many mother and daughter stories most famously "Girl" and "WingLess".

-Noah

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/books/jamaica-kincaid-isnt-writing-about-her-life-she-says.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1979/01/29/wingless

Mark Twain by Ainsley S.

2024-11-08 22:05:41 UTC

Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. After a long life of 75 years, he wrote a long list of novels and short stories.

Some of his most popular short stories include A Dog's Tale of 1903, Eve's Diary of 1905, and The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County of 1865.

Mark Twain was the sixth of seven children, and spent the majority of his childhood in Hannibal, MO. His father died at the age of eleven. He educated himself and eventually became a pilot.

Mark Twain's writing style is characterised by humour, strong narrative and expressive descriptions.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain#Marriage_and_children

Alice Walker

2024-11-08 22:42:19 UTC

Alice Walker was born in 1944 and is eighty years old today. She wrote many influential novels, stories, and poems that were most prominent in the surge of African American women’s literature post-1970s. Walker published a number of novels, as well as collections of poetry, essays, and short stories. Her most famous work is The Color Purple, which won her the Pulitzer prize in 1983, The Color Purple. However, she had many other significant works, including “Everyday Use”, a story with a theme of one’s relationship with their heritage and how it should be preserved. Walker features similar themes of harmony and conflict in African American culture in many of her works.

By Lily Neff

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/alice-walker-b-1944/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Walker#Writing_career

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyday_Use

Raymond Carver

2024-11-08 22:52:46 UTC

1938-1998

Pulitzer Prize Recipient

Raymond Carver was an American poet and writer who was quite famous for his collections of short stories he published in the 70's and 80's. His works explores the struggles and experiences of the American working and lower middle class. He often embraces an idea of minimalism in his story, although he personally denied it. His works are also quite intense and he uses language quite well especially considering the shortness of his story.

His 3 most famous works are:

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Cathedral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Carver

Kate Chopin

2024-11-08 23:29:47 UTC

Kate Chopin was a female American born short-story writer. She lived from 1850-1940 and wrote nearly 200 short stories in her career. Chopin was very influential during the 20th century because she challenged society's view on the capabilities of married women in her writing. In her writing, common themes were of marriage and divorce. Chopin's writing style was also very unique. She often captured speech patterns and nuances of the 20th century. She was able to make her writing sound authentic through capturing dialects because of her Southern background. However, Chopin was most famous for mastering the Stream of Consciousness writing style, which made her short stories very detailed. One of Kate Chopin's most famous stories was "The Story of an Hour" (1894), which explores the complex emotions of a woman who believes her husband died in a train wreck. Some other notable stories include "The Storm" (1898), "Désirée's Baby" (1893), "A Respectable Women" (1894), and "A Pair of Silk Stockings" (1896).

Kate Chopin

2024-11-08 23:33:16 UTC

Kate Chopin is an American writer, born on February 8th 1850, and passed August 22nd 1904. Her stories mostly center daring women but she also had elements of romanticism, transcendentalism, realism, naturalism, existentialism, and particularly feminism. Her most famous short stories are “The Story of an Hour”, “The Storm”, “Désirée’s Baby”, “A Pair of Silk Stockings”, and “A Respectable Woman”. Throughout her career she also wrote novels and children's stories. https://faculty.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/chopin.html#:~:text=Since%20Chopin's%20works%20contain%20clear,last%20century%20and%20a%20half.

https://www.katechopin.org/

Jamaica Kincaid (Audrey Merker)

2024-11-08 23:43:52 UTC

Jamaica Kincaid is an author who was born on May 25, 1949, in St. John’s, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda. When she was 16, she moved to New York and then went on to study photography at the New York School for Social Research. Her first book was published in 1983. The collection of short stories was titled At the Bottom of the River. One of her famous stories was Annie John, a novel with seemingly autobiographical characteristics. A Small Place was also a famous story that portrays her struggle with her relationship towards her home country. Her work showed familial relationships and her views and emotions on her country. Kincaid’s writing portrays her feelings of discontent with the past and present of her country and reflects on her own relationships with her family. Her writing is quite poetic, with great amounts of imagery and rhythm.

SOURCES

(https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jamaica-Kincaid)

(https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/jamaica-kincaid)

Image also from britannica

O. Henry

2024-11-09 00:58:43 UTC

Born: September 11, 1862 (In Greensboro!!!)

Died: June 5, 1910

Some short stories that he wrote

The Duplicity of Hargraves
The Gift of the Magi
The Ransom of Red Chief

He coined the term "Banana Republic"

He used a lot of irony and metaphors, and his endings were often surprising. His writing was very vivid and seemed real, and he explored the theme of morality a lot, questioning what really is moral, while also maintaining all of the other minute and complex elements of his short stories. Another theme commonly explored by him is love and sacrifice. He also wrote poetry and non-fiction, but he is most well known for his short stories.

- BIX O.P.

Sources:

Wikipedia
Atlantic Press
Manhattan University
IJRAR

Langston Hughes

2024-11-09 01:02:27 UTC

Langston Hughes was a crucial figure in the Harlem renaissance and a very influential writer, playwright, and poet. He was born in Missouri in 1902 and later moved to Harlem in 1922. He spent some of his life in the south writing about racial injustices and some of his life in the Soviet Union taking an interest to communism. His most famous story is Thank you Ma'am. His stories talked about racism, and depicted the joys and hardships of black lives, avoiding negative stereotypes.

Sandra Cisneros

2024-11-09 01:20:40 UTC

Sandra Cisneros is a Mexican-American short story writer. She was born in 1954 and is still alive today at 69 years old. Cisneros focuses on feminine clichés in her writing, such as sinful seductions, traitorous mother, etc. Her short stories are generally compiled into whole books, such as her 1991 publication "Woman Hollering Creek and Other Short Stories". Her writing style usually features a modest narrator mode, with multiple different points of view.

John Updike

2024-11-09 01:21:45 UTC

John Updike was an American novelist from southern Pennsylvania. Born on March 18th, 1932, he lived to the age of 76 before his death in 2009. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction multiple times, being only one of four writers to ever do so. Some of his most notable works include the Rabbit Angstrom volume, consisting of four total novels, “A&P”, and “The Happiest I’ve Ever Been”. His work was heavily shaped by his faith as he was a Christian. He also often wrote in a unique prose-like style.

sources:

https://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/a-and-p/context/#:~:text=Updike's%20work%20was%20shaped%20by,his%20fair%20share%20of%20controversy.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Updike

https://www.macdowell.org/artists/john-updike#:~:text=Updike's%20highly%20distinctive%20prose%20style,squarely%20in%20the%20realist%20tradition.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/68449-the-10-best-john-updike-books.html

Langston Hughes

2024-11-09 01:51:28 UTC

Langston Hughes was an American author during the 1920s. He was an important figure during the Harlem Renaissance, writing many short stories and poems. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1901 and died on May 22, 1967. His writing often colorfully portrayed living as an African American, showing the good and the bad, the joy and the hardship that came with it. His most famous short stories include Thank You M’am and The Ways of White Folks, the latter being a collection of short stories.

- Kingsley Chen

Alice Walker

nvashishtha — 2024-11-09 02:04:58 UTC

Alice Walker was born February 19th, 1944 in Eatontown, Georgia. At a very young age she became a fan of writing. As a child, she had an incident that caused her to be blind in her left eye and she was left with white scar tissue. This made her very self-conscious and self-critical. These feelings ended up having much influence on some of her short stories. Her stories have themes rooted mostly in economic hardship, racial terror, and folk wisdom of African American life and culture. For example, one of her collections of short stories, "In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women", features black women struggling against the low standards and expectations society has set for them, their intelligence, and their virtue. Her second collection emphasizes women's experiences with issues such as rape and abortion. Some specific examples of her fictitious short stories are The Flowers, Roselily, Everyday Use, and The Child Who Favored Daughter.

Sources: https://alicewalkerwritingstyle.wordpress.com/

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/alice-walker-b-1944/#:~:text=Alice%20Walker%20is%20a%20novelist,National%20Book%20Award%20in%201983.

https://www.shortstoryguide.com/alice-walker-short-stories/

Ernest Hemingway

2024-11-09 02:23:53 UTC

Ernest Hemingway was an American short-story writer, novelist, and journalist. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) on July 21, 1899. After he graduated from high school, he got a job as a reporter at the Kansas City Star. He later enlisted in the Red Cross, serving as an ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War I. Hemingway's debut novel was The Sun Also Rises, which was published in 1926. He later returned to the US and moved to Key West, Florida. He continued to work as a journalist, covering the Spanish Civil War and World War II. He was injured by two plane crashes in 1954, and later committed suicide at his home in Idaho on July 2, 1961. Some of his most famous short stories include Hills Like White Elephants, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and Cat in the Rain. His stories are very concise, straightforward, and realistic. He also used the "Iceberg Theory", having his characters be pretty simple, but actually having a deeper meaning.

Jack London

2024-11-09 02:50:18 UTC

Jack London was born in San Francisco, California, on January 12, 1876. He died on November 22, 1916.

He was deserted by his father and was raised in Oakland, California. At age 14, he quit school to get away from poverty and to adventure.

He explored San Francisco Bay, traveled to Japan, and saw much of the United States. He was a part of an industrial army run by Charles T. Kelly.

In 1894, London became a militant socialist. He educated himself at public libraries. At age 19, he crammed a four year high school into one and entered the University of California. After a year he quit school to seek a fortune in the Klondike gold rush and returned the next year, still poor, and decided to become a writer.

He completed around 50 books of fiction and non-fiction in 17 years. He also became the highest-paid writer in the United States for some time.

Some of his most famous novels include the Call of the Wild and White fang, along with some others.

Source: Britannica - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jack-London

Mark Twain

2024-11-09 02:51:09 UTC

(November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910)

Mark Twain was a novelist who grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. In addition to being a writer, Twain also worked as a printer and a riverboat captain. He published his first successful story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, in 1865, which made him famous all over the United States. Twain is known for various styles, including humor, satire, and travel narratives. His adventure stories, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, won him global attention, and are still considered classics of American fiction.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/summary/Mark-Twain

Ben W- John Updike

2024-11-09 03:07:50 UTC

My author is John Updike (1932 -- 2009). Born in Pennsylvania, Updike went to Harvard, where he met his first wife, Mary Pennnington. He left her 1974, and married his second wife, Martha Bernhard, in 1977. In addition to his well-known Rabbit novels, he had an illustrious short story career. Some of his most famous ones are based on personal experiences- "The Happiest I've Ever Been," revolves around the main character's nostalgia for his university years, and "Separating", is about the divorce of characters representing Updike and his first wife. Overall, John Updike is known for the immense power seen through every one of his sentences. Some consider him among the greatest short story writers of all time.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Updike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Updike

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/07/top-10-john-updike-short-stories

Ray Bradbury

2024-11-09 03:29:12 UTC

Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. As a child, he was an avid reader, and started writing short stories at age 12. After moving around a few times, his family settled near Hollywood, where Ray continued to write.

Ray Bradbury wrote many notable short stories such as The Veldt, Zero Hour, and All Summer in a Day. His stories used many similes and metaphors, and incorporated themes of technology and social critique. His novel Fahrenheit 451 is considered to be his best work, and although he died on June 5, 2012, he is still remembered for his great works of science fiction.

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ray-Bradbury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury

Flannery O'Connor

2024-11-09 04:08:07 UTC

Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American writer born in March, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia. She died on August 3, 1964 to lupus, an autoimmune disease. Some of her most famous works are "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge". The New Georgia Encyclopedia is quoted saying the key features of her writing are "Economy of form, biting satire, vivid characterizations, and a stern moral vision". O'Connor's stories were often set in the modern South countryside, with her protagonists being middle-aged women with well established views. The stories usually showcase a transformation that the characters undergo to realize the falseness of those same views.

Sandra Cisneros

2024-11-09 13:55:52 UTC

Sandra Cisneros, born on December 20, 1954, in Chicago, is a renowned Mexican-American author celebrated for exploring themes of cultural identity, gender, and family in works like The House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Her writing often portrays the lives of Hispanic women and the challenges of living between two cultures, with a distinctive style that combines poetic language and vivid imagery. Cisneros is known for flawlessly integrating Spanish literature into her English writing, making the book feel more "authentic". A prominent voice in Chicano literature, Cisneros has received numerous awards and continues to influence both Latino and feminist literary landscapes.

Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sandra-Cisneros, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sandra-cisneros, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Cisneros

Ian Xue

1. Ernest Hemingway

2024-11-09 14:35:00 UTC

Born: July 21, 1899, Oak Park, IL

Died: July 2, 1961 (age 61 years), Ketchum, ID

Ernest Miller Hemingway is an American writer with 7 published novels. Well known for his fictional novels, short stories, and his journalism.

He also made the "Six Word Stories" (We did this in class) which inspired the Six Word Memoirs organization.

Some interesting facts about him are:

He survived 2 plane crashes one day apart.
He wrote 4 books for his four wives.
He set a world record of catching seven marlins in a day (1938).

The Old Man and the Sea (1952) is regarded as Hemingway's best book. It is about an old Cuban man and his struggle to catch a marlin (Yes, it was inspired by fact #3).

His main writing style is very straight forward with very descriptive writing. He also writes with very short sentences which are either dialogue or descriptive language. His endings are pretty short and regular. Some of his short stories also jump around in time a lot, which I saw in A Very Short Story. I also read A Canary for One which I think was pretty simple but had a deeper meaning like the Canary in the cage represented the prevention of the American Lady's daughter from finding love. And the fact that the American Lady was a bit deaf so she couldn't hear her daughters begging.

John London

2024-11-09 14:55:53 UTC

Lived Jan 12, 1876 - Nov 22, 1916

Lifetime: He saw depression conditions, was jailed for vagrancy, and in 1894 became a militant socialist.

Key Features of Writing: Vivid yet simple descriptions of natural settings (the focus of his narratives)

Famous Stories: A Thousand Deaths, a Piece of Steak, and To Build a Fire

Raymond Carver - Srinidhi Iyer

2024-11-09 15:47:42 UTC

Raymond Carver (1938-1988) was an American poet and short story writer. He is most known for his short stories such as his collection titled What We Talk About When We Talk About Love which includes short stories such as "Why Don't You Dance?," "The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off" and "A Serious Talk." His short stories include hallmarks such as being realistic, relatable, minimalistic and highlighting the mundane parts of life.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Carver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Talk_About_When_We_Talk_About_Love

Ray Bradbury

2024-11-10 01:03:49 UTC

(August 22, 1920-June 5, 2012)

Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois. As a child, Ray fell in love with science fiction at an early age. Later in his early teenage years, (In 1934 to be exact) Bradbury’s family moved to Los Angeles. With encouragement from fellow young authors and role models including Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton, and Robert Heinlein, Bradbury published his first short story “Hollerbochen’s Dilemma.” His works quickly caught attention as his highly imaginative and poetic style attracted many readers. His social criticism, and awareness of hazards of runaway technology also made his works unique and stand out from others. Some of his most famous short stories include "There Will Come Soft Rains," "All Summer in a Day," and "A Sound of Thunder." All of these works are unique to Ray Bradbury’s style of science fiction writing, however he also wrote many famous short stories in genres of fantasy, mystery, and horror.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ray-Bradbury

Sandra Cisneros

hwang69 — 2024-11-10 02:08:18 UTC

Sandra Cisneros, a famous poet, short story writer, and novelist, was born on December 20, 1954 in Chicago Illinois, and she was raised in a family where she was the only girl among her six other siblings. She had a younger sister who was born a year after her, but the child unfortunately passed away as a baby. Cisneros created her first poem at the age of ten but didn’t create any more works until she rediscovered her love for poetry and writing in high school. Later, she graduated from Chicago’s Loyola University in 1976 with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1978 with a Masters Degree in Creative Writing. Just two years after her experience in the writers’ workshop, she published her first book, a story told through poetry titled Bad Boy. The book that skyrocketed her to popularity, though, was the second story she wrote called The House on Mango Street, a coming-of-age story published in 1984 that explored the character Esperanza Cordero and her experiences living in a small Chicago town. The story was a well-written novel and had a unique structure built of vignettes, and it became an extremely popular and critically acclaimed book with over six million copies sold. Afterwards, Cisneros came out with many more stories, and her works are known for discussing topics such as diversity, growth, and family. Throughout her career, she has won numerous awards and made huge achievements. She has not only received the Texas Medal of the Arts and gotten a MacArthur fellowship, but she has also won the National Medal of Arts that was given to her in 2016 by then President Obama. In short, Sandra Cisneros is an incredible author who has made massive accomplishments in her life.

Sources

https://www.fordfoundation.org/about/the-art-of-change-meet-our-fellows/sandra-cisneros/#:~:text=Cisneros%20has%20also%20received%20NEA,by%20President%20Obama%20in%202016

https://www.sandracisneros.com/books

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/sandra-cisneros-books/

https://www.arts.gov/initiatives/nea-big-read/house-mango-street

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sandra-cisneros

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sandra-Cisneros

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John Updike

2024-11-10 04:31:40 UTC

John Updike was born on March 18th, 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He went to college at Harvard and graduated there in 1954. He had two wives and he had 6 children. Updike died on January 27th, 2009 in Beverly, Massachusetts. He was very well known for his stories that focused on the small-town, middle-class, American life.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Updike

Updike was known for very distinctive prose style of writing that featured a lot of unusual and rich vocabulary the described the world extravagantly while still keeping in the realist tradition.

https://www.newsweek.com/many-stylings-john-updike-78389

One of Updike's most famous short stories is called A&P. It follows the complicated transition from childhood to adulthood through the life of a teenage boy named Sammy.

https://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/a-and-p/

Jack London

ltumenwaliri — 2024-11-10 18:07:14 UTC

Jack London was born January 12, 1876. He was a short story writer and a novelist. His biological father wasn't involved in his life so he was raised by mother and stepfather in Oakland, California. But at age 19 he crammed a four-year high school courses in one year and went to University of California, Berkeley. After one year he left to try to make a living in the Klondike gold rush. Unsuccessful, he decided to become a writer. His first book was "The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North" a series of short stories. He started gaining recognition because of this series. He completed around 50 nonfiction and fiction books in 17 years some being, "The Call of the Wild", and "White Fang". Those two books and some of his other books consistently depict elemental struggles for survival and the appeal of the wilderness. Jack London sadly died November 22, 1916.

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jack-London

Gary Soto

2024-11-11 16:42:53 UTC

Gary Soto is an American short story writer, born and raised in Fresno, California. He was born on April 12, 1952 to a middle class family who often struggled to find work. Some of his most famous works include Baseball in April and Other Stories, Living Up the Street, A Summer Life, and Neighborhood Odes. These books are all collections of his most known short stories and can be purchased online or at your local bookstore. Some key features of Soto’s writing are his love for writing about unusual subjects for adolescents and kids such as poverty. Because of his Mexican-American heritage, he tends to highlight aspects of Mexican American life in a present-day fashion.

https://lrhslightningflash.com/5535/hispanic-history-month/the-life-and-works-of-gary-soto/#:~:text=As%20a%20free%20verse%20poet,in%20a%20present%2Dday%20fashion.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/30743.Gary_Soto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Soto

Junius Edwards

dsdebrigard — 2024-11-11 20:24:41 UTC

Junius Edwards, born in Louisiana lived between 1929 and 2008, served in the Korean War in his twenties. He studied in both the University of Oslo and Chicago. His works delt with issues of of race, adressing phycological and personal problems. His most credited short stories are Liars Don't Quantify, and Duel With the Clock, published in 1961 and 1967 respecively. An important theme through many of his works is focusing on the demunization of black people in the , and the constant and sometimes subtle power imbalance oh so common in the south. He wrote up until his death, and one of his last published works was "S'il faut mourir" published in 2003.

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095743388

Ursula K. Le Guin

2024-11-12 03:30:24 UTC

, was a decorated author who wrote many books, poems, and short stories in her lifetime. One of her famous short stories was "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas". The story is about a town that lives in prosperity, but to achieve this a single person must suffer. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" cannot bear to see this so they leave. Ursula K. Le Guin often wrote Sci-Fi that made observations on how our society functions.

Toni Cade Bambara

2024-11-12 13:00:10 UTC

Toni Cade Bambara, b. 1939 d. 1995, wrote a number of short stories, in collections including collections Gorilla, My Love and The Seabirds Are Still Alive. Her stories were about "black women’s relationships and self-love". Many of her stories were influenced by her time in New York, where she met Communists, Garveyites, Muslims and Pan-Africanists. She published her first short story, Sweet Town, at the age of 20, while attending Queen's College. Some of her most famous include Raymond's Run, about a runner's relationship with her disabled brother and The Lesson, a commentary on society at the time. She died of colon cancer in 1995.

O. Henry

zacharyagangopadhyay — 2024-11-12 13:33:00 UTC

William Sydney Porter, known famously by his pen name “O. Henry,” was an American novelist and short story writer in the early 1900s. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on September 11th, 1862 and died in New York on June 5th, 48 years later, following struggles with money and alcoholism.

In his early life, O. Henry was a journalist for both the failed Rolling Stones and the Houston Post in 1894. Two years later, O. Henry was charged for embezzlement of bank funds, but his sentence was lightened following his beloved wife’s death. Before prison, he was William Porter. O. Henry was the one to emerge.

In 1902, O. Henry arrived in New York and began to publish many of his currently famous short stories, including Cabbages and Kings, The Gift of the Magi, and Heart of the West. The hallmarks of his style were his clever uses of irony and dramatisation that earned him an award named in his honour.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/O-Henry

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Flannery O'Connor (Lily A.)

2024-11-12 13:48:14 UTC

-Flannery O’Connor is best known for writing her short stories but she also wrote two novels and did a bit of review and commentary

-She was born on March 25, 1925 and died on August 3, 1964

-She lived in Savannah, Georgia throughout her childhood

-Her short stories have no specific structure but many share a theme of going through a change, having a realization relating to their identity, or having some ethical or moral challenge

-Since she was raised in the country, her protagonists usually live in the south and are christian

-Her best known works are Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away, and A Good Man Is Hard To Find

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/short-stories-of-flannery-oconnor/#:~:text=them%20as%20evil.-,Themes,emphasis%20on%20sin%20and%20salvation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannery_O%27Connor

Julia Alvarez - Nina Heinrich

2024-11-12 14:22:20 UTC

Julia Alvarez is a writer from New York City, but is currently based in Vermont. Born in 1950, she’s one of the most critically successful Latina writers of her time. She writes poems of childhood memories and being an immigrant living between two different cultures. For the first ten years of her life, she lived in the Dominican Republic but her family fled after they supported an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow dictator Rafael Trujillo. She is best known for her books ‘How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents’ and ‘In the Time of the Butterflies’. So far, she has written six novels, three non-fiction books, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. She is still writing, her most recent book being The Cemetery of Untold Stories which was published in April of this year.

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Amy tan-Adi D.

2024-11-12 14:27:47 UTC

Amy Tan was born February 19, 1952 and is best known for writing the novel The Joy Luck Club, which was written in 1989. She has won many awards from her contributions to the literary world. She has written multiple short stories, including, but not limited to: Mother Tongue, and Two Kinds. She has also written children's books and is well known in the literary community. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Tan#Short_stories

Sources for Gary Soto

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https://garysoto.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Soto

Ray Bradbury Image

2024-11-12 19:48:29 UTC

Eric Hito Sources

2024-11-12 19:49:16 UTC

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Kristin Hunter Lattany". Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Nov. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kristin-Hunter-Lattany. Accessed 12 November 2024.

Toni Cade Bambara

2024-11-12 19:49:26 UTC

Toni Cade Bambara was a black woman born in Harlem, NY, March 25 1939, and died in 1995. She also became a teacher along with her career as a writer. She compiled several "Novels" composed of multiple short stories. She was also an activist for african-american and women's rights. She writes in an “African American” style, and some of her stories include: "The lesson", a story about a young black girl named Sylvia. She used writing as a form of protest against racism and economical inequality.

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Toni-Cade-Bambara

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/bambara-toni-cade-1939-1995/

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Flannery O'connor (Harrison G.)

2024-11-13 23:32:56 UTC

Flannery O'connor, born 1925, was a female short story writer who wrote over thirty short stories in her lifetime. Her most notable works include "A good man is hard to find" and "Everything that rises must converge". She also wrote two novels, "Wise blood" and "The violent bear it away". Although she was slightly racist, her darker, more humorous stories are still read today.

Ernest Hemingway

2024-11-15 15:17:52 UTC

Ernest Hemingway was a novelist and a short story writer who lived from 1899 and 1961. Many of his short stories explored topics like war, loss, and the complexities of being human. He wrote many short stories, including "Hills Like White Elephants", "Cat in the Rain", and many more. He received the Noble Prize for Literature in 1954.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1954/hemingway/biographical/

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1082796.pdf

Amy Tan-Adi. D.

2024-11-16 18:56:22 UTC

Amy Tan is a well known American author best recognized for her novel "The Joy Luck Club"

February 19, 1952-
Born in Oakland, California
Had a difficult relationship with her mother, who often threatened to kill herself.
Also wrote "The Kitchen God's Wife"
Has also written many short stories including "Mother Tongue", and "Fish Cheeks"