We also asked bookstore owners, authors and other ... as all the best short stories do. Through beautifully observed characters in often absurd yet very American situations, she reveals the ...

The novelist and short-story writer, who died Monday at ninety-six, contributed to The New Yorker for more than six decades.

The Best American Short Stories 2008, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Salman Rushdie. [1] Quick Facts Editor, Language ...

Eudora Welty was a short story writer and novelist known for her portrayals of the American South. She received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Optimist’s Daughter.

Here are four famous writers who once resided in the region, helped shaped the history of our towns and villages, and inspired future generations of authors. Dubbed “the Chekhov of the suburbs,” John ...

The Canadian writer was described as a "master of the contemporary story" when receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in ...

The Best American Short Stories 2004, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Lorrie Moore. [1] Quick Facts Editor, Language ...