Short Story Writers Encyclopedia Articles By Title
Nélida Piñon was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer known for her unusual prose style and inventive use......
Sylvia Plath was an American poet whose best-known works, such as the poems “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” and the......
Charles Plisnier was a Belgian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist noted for his intense, analytical......
William Plomer was a South African-born British man of letters, whose writing covered many genres: poetry, novels,......
James Plunkett was an Irish novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer whose works, which deal with Ireland’s......
Edgar Allan Poe was an American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation......
Frederik Pohl was an American science-fiction writer whose best work uses the genre as a mode of social criticism......
Henrik Pontoppidan was a Realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for......
Maria Louise Pool was an American writer whose sketches were well received in the period when the so-called local......
Eleanor Hodgman Porter was an American novelist, creator of the Pollyanna series of books that generated a popular......
Hal Porter was an Australian novelist, playwright, poet, and autobiographer noted for his style and sometimes disturbing......
Katherine Anne Porter was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories......
Dawn Powell was an American novelist, playwright, and short-story writer known for her biting social satires. Although......
T.F. Powys was an English novelist and short-story writer whose works dealt mainly with the hardships and brutalities......
Pramoedya Ananta Toer was a Javanese novelist and short-story writer, the preeminent prose writer of post-independence......
Vasco Pratolini was an Italian short-story writer and novelist, known particularly for compassionate portraits......
Premchand was an Indian author of novels and short stories in Hindi and Urdu who pioneered in adapting Indian themes......
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss was an American writer of popular children’s books of a pious and homely character. Elizabeth......
Reynolds Price was an American writer whose stories are set in the southern U.S. state of North Carolina, where......
Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian novelist and writer of short stories, plays, and verse, best known......
V.S. Pritchett was a British novelist, short-story writer, and critic known throughout his long writing career......
Annie Proulx is an American writer whose darkly comic yet sad fiction is peopled with quirky, memorable individuals......
Marcel Proust was a French novelist, author of À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27; In Search of Lost Time),......
Bolesław Prus was a Polish journalist, short-story writer, and novelist who was one of the leading figures of the......
Pu Songling was a Chinese fiction writer whose Liaozhai zhiyi (1766; “Strange Stories from Liaozhai’s Studio”;......
James Purdy was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works explored the American way of life and presented......
Aleksandr Pushkin was a Russian poet, novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer; he has often been considered......
Thomas Pynchon is an American novelist and short-story writer whose works combine black humour and fantasy to depict......
Qian Zhongshu was a Chinese scholar and writer whose erudition and scholarly achievements were practically unrivaled......
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was an English poet, novelist, and anthologist noted for his compilation of The......
Horacio Quiroga was an Uruguayan-born short-story writer whose imaginative portrayal of the struggle of humans......
Wilhelm Raabe was a German writer best known for realistic novels of middle-class life. After leaving school in......
Thomas Head Raddall was an English-Canadian novelist, who accurately depicted the history, manners, and idiom of......
Ian Rankin is a Scottish best-selling crime novelist, creator of the Inspector Rebus series. (For Rankin’s reflections......
Raja Rao was an author who was among the most significant Indian novelists writing in English during the middle......
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American short-story writer and novelist who founded a regional literature of backwoods......
Jean Ray was a Belgian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist who is known for his crime fiction and narratives......
James Crerar Reaney was a Canadian poet and playwright whose works transform Ontario small-town life into the realm......
Aleksey Mikhaylovich Remizov was a Symbolist writer whose works had a strong influence on Russian writers before......
Ruth Rendell was a British writer of mystery novels, psychological crime novels, and short stories who was perhaps......
Gerard Reve was a Dutch writer noted for his virtuoso style and sardonic humour. His subject matter was occasionally......
José Revueltas was a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, and political activist who was one of the originators......
Alfonso Reyes was a poet, essayist, short-story writer, literary scholar and critic, educator, and diplomat, generally......
Władysław Stanisław Reymont was a Polish writer and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in......
Jean Rhys was a West Indian novelist who earned acclaim for her early works set in the bohemian world of Europe......
Rui Ribeiro Couto was a Brazilian poet, short-story writer, and diplomat, one of the leading figures of Modernism......
Aquilino Ribeiro was a novelist, the mainstay of Portuguese fiction writing until the surge of neorealist regionalism......
Julio Ramón Ribeyro was a short-story writer, novelist, and playwright, one of the Latin American masters of the......
James Rice was an English novelist best known for his literary partnership with Sir Walter Besant. Rice was educated......
Barnabe Rich was an English author and soldier whose Farewell to Militarie Profession (1581) was the source for......
Henry Handel Richardson was an Australian novelist whose trilogy The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, combining description......
Conrad Michael Richter was an American short-story writer and novelist known for his lyrical fiction about early......
Richard Rive was a South African writer, literary critic, and teacher whose short stories, which were dominated......
Augusto Roa Bastos was a Latin American novelist, short-story writer, and film scriptwriter of national and international......
Elizabeth Madox Roberts was a Southern American novelist, poet, and short story writer noted especially for her......
Kate Roberts was one of the outstanding Welsh-language novelists and short-story writers of the 20th century and......
Sir Charles G.D. Roberts was a poet who was the first to express the new national feeling aroused by the Canadian......
Manuel Rojas was a Chilean novelist and short-story writer. As a youth, Rojas traveled along the Argentine and......
Frederick William Rolfe was an English author and eccentric, best known for his autobiographical fantasy Hadrian......
Dominique Rolin was a Belgian novelist noted for embracing new narrative techniques. Author of more than 30 books......
Luís Romano was a Cape Verdean poet, novelist, and folklorist who wrote in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole.......
José Rubén Romero was a Mexican novelist and short-story writer whose vivid depiction of the people and customs......
Henry Roth was an American teacher, farmer, machinist, and sporadic author whose novel Call It Sleep (1934) was......
Veronica Roth is an American writer known for her Divergent trilogy of science-fiction novels for young adults,......
Steele Rudd was a novelist, playwright, and short-story writer whose comic characters are a well-known part of......
Jane Rule was an American-born Canadian novelist, essayist, and short-story writer known for her exploration of......
Juan Rulfo was a Mexican writer who is considered one of the finest novelists and short-story creators in 20th-century......
Michael Rumaker was an American author whose works were often semiautobiographical and featured gay protagonists.......
Damon Runyon was an American journalist and short-story writer, best known for his book Guys and Dolls, written......
Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British-American writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical......
José Régio was a Portuguese poet, novelist, dramatist, and literary critic, generally considered one of the most......
Marquis de Sade was a French nobleman whose perverse sexual preferences and erotic writings gave rise to the term......
Abdoulaye Sadji was a Senegalese writer and teacher who was one of the founders of African prose fiction in French.......
Nayantara Sahgal is an Indian journalist and novelist whose fiction presents the personal crises of India’s elite......
Saki was a Scottish writer and journalist whose stories depict the Edwardian social scene with a flippant wit and......
J.D. Salinger was an American writer whose novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951) won critical acclaim and devoted......
Andrew Salkey was a Caribbean author, anthologist, and editor whose work reflected a commitment to Jamaican culture.......
James Salter was an American fiction writer and screenwriter whose work is characterized by a careful, economical......
Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Count Saltykov was a novelist of radical sympathies and one of the greatest of all Russian......
George Sand was a French Romantic writer known primarily for her so-called rustic novels. She was brought up at......
Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster was an American writer and editor, noted in her day for her stories and books......
William Sansom was a writer of short stories, novels, and travel books who is considered particularly acute in......
José Saramago was a Portuguese novelist and man of letters who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.......
Frank Sargeson was a novelist and short-story writer whose ironic, stylistically diverse works made him the most......
William Saroyan was a U.S. writer who made his initial impact during the Depression with a deluge of brash, original,......
Satō Haruo was a Japanese poet, novelist, and critic whose fiction is noted for its poetic vision and romantic......
George Saunders is an American writer best known for his debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), which won the......
John Sayles is an American motion-picture director, screenwriter, novelist, and actor who since the 1980s has been......
Arno Schmidt was a novelist, translator, and critic, whose experimental prose established him as the preeminent......
Delmore Schwartz was an American poet, short-story writer, and literary critic noted for his lyrical descriptions......
Duncan Campbell Scott was a Canadian administrator, poet, and short-story writer, best known at the end of the......
David Sedaris is an American humorist and essayist best known for his sardonic autobiographical stories and social......
Anne Douglas Sedgwick was an expatriate American writer whose best-selling fiction observed European and American......
Peter Seeberg was a Danish novelist influenced by French existentialism. Seeberg’s first book appeared in 1956,......
Ahmed Sefrioui was a Moroccan novelist and short-story writer whose works record the everyday lives of the common......
Francis Selormey was a Ghanaian writer and teacher whose semiautobiographical novel, The Narrow Path: An African......
Samuel Selvon was a Caribbean novelist and short-story writer of East Indian descent, known for his vivid evocation......
Ousmane Sembène was a Senegalese writer and film director known for his historical and political themes. (Read......
Ernest Thompson Seton was a naturalist and writer who was an early practitioner of the modern school of animal-fiction......
Omer Seyfeddin was a short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest modern Turkish authors. Seyfeddin......