Short Stories
Topic 18 May 2014
The following short story authors were mentioned.
Paul Bowles (1910 - 1999)
Collected Stories, 1939-1976 (1979)
Bowles was a composer and writer. His reputation as a composer was ultimately overshadowed
by his writing. In the 1960s he began translating stories from the oral tradition of native
Moroccan storytellers. Gore Vidal ranked his short stories "among the best ever written by an
American." In 1991 he was awarded the Rea Award for the Short Story.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
The Immortal
The Encounter
Ficciones
The Aleph
He was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet, and translator. His work embraces the
character of unreality in all literature." He was the first to use the term" magical realism" to define
a genre that reacted against the dominant realism and naturalism of the 19th century.
TC Boyle (1948 - )
Descent of Man (1979)
Tooth and Claw (2005)
TC Boyle Stories II (2013)
His fiction explores the baby boom generation, its appetites, joys and addictions. His themes
include the misguided efforts of the male hero and the slick appeal of the anti-hero, alongside
brutal satire, humor and magical realism. His fiction also explores the unpredictability of nature
and the toll human society takes on the environment.
Janet Burroway (1936 - )
I Do Not Love You, Wesley (1957)
Deconstruction (1999)
She has published 8 novels, short stories, poems, plays, and a guide to writing.
Her work is known for "its stylistic excellence and tragicomic tone, portraying evil as the result of
emotional blindness." She is known in particular for her complex female protagonist.
Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
Cathedral (his best)
Call if You Need Me (includes autobiographical)
A major force in the revitalization of the American short story in literature in the 1980s
Michael Chabon (1963 - )
Thrilling Tales
A Model World and Other Stories (1991)
Werewolves in their Youth (1999)
Edited Best American Short Stories 2005, writes mostly novels
John Cheever (1912 - 1982)
The Enormous Radio
Goodbye My Brother
The Stories of John Cheever (1979 Pulizer Prize for Fiction)
"One of the most important short story writers of the 20th century."
His main themes include the duality of human nature (social vs inner corruption)
He also expressed a nostalgia for a vanishing way of life
Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
The Open Boat
The Blue Hotel
The Bride Come to Yellow Sky
Considered among the greatest writers of short stories in history
Work is characterized by vivid intensity, distinctive dialects, and irony.
Short Stories
Topic 18 May 2014
Steven Crane (1871 - 1900)
A Dark Brown Dog
Best known for novel The Red Badge of Courage
Julio Cortazar (1914 - 1984)
Blow Up (1967)
End of the Game and Other Stories
Argentinian novelist and "a modern master of the short story".
One of the founders of the"Latin American Boom"
Lydia Davis (1947 - )
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (2009)
She is a novelist, essayist, and translator.
John Farris (1936 - )
Transgressions
His writing is characterized as Southern Gothic.
Patricia Highsmith (1921 - 1995)
The Black House (1981)
Nothing That Meets the Eye (2001)
She wrote novels and short stories and is most widely known for her psychological thrillers.
Many of her protagonists are either morally compromised by circumstance or actively flouting
the law. Her recurring character Tom Ripley is an amoral, sexually ambiguous con artist and
occasional murderer.
John Henry Homberg
A Darker Shade of Sweden (an anthology of Swedish crime writing)
No information available about this author
Mary Hood (1946 - )
How Far She Went
Venus is Blue]
Shirley Jackson (1916 - 1965)
The Lottery (1948)
Come Along with Me (1968)
Just an Ordinary Day (1995)
Jack London (1876 - 1916)
To Build a Fire (1902)
An Odyssey of the North (1900)
The Sea Wolf
The Most Dangerous Game
He was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the right or workers.
Lorrie Morre (1957 - )
Self-Help (1985)
Birds of America (1998)
Bark: Stories (2014)
She is known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories.
Joyce Carol Oates (1938 - )
Riding in the Car With Boys
By the North Gate (1963)
The Goddess and Other Women (1974)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been (1993)
She writes stories in the Gothic and Horror genres. She was deeply influenced by Kafka and felt a
writerly kinship with James Joyce. She was won numerous awards.
Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
The Complete Stories (1971)
She was an American writer and essayist: wrote 2 novels and 32 short stories. She often wrote in
a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional setting and grotesque characters. She
frequently examined questions of morality and ethics.
Short Stories
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Edgar Allen Poe (1809 - 1849)
The Cask of Amontillado
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Tell-Tale Heart
"Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre and one of the earliest American
practitioners of the short story. He is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction
genre and further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction"
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
The Snowstorm
Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories (2009)
Although he is regarded as the world's best novelist by many, he also wrote short stories. He was
a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. He influenced Martin Luther King and Mohandas
Gandhi.
Eudora Welty (1909 - 2001)
The Golden Apples (1949)
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1980)
She was an American author of stories and novels about the American South.
William Carlos Williams (1993 - 1963)Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams (1996)
The Farmers' Daughters: Collected Stories (1961)
He was a Latino-American poet and novelist closely associated with modernism and imagism. He
was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine