I prefer short story collections to novels. I love Alice Munro & Raymond Carver & Sherman Alexie & Edmund P. Jones & Tobias Wolff...
Anyone have any favorite short story writers they want to suggest?
2007-03-30 08:19:57 · 12 answers · asked by aspicco 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
O Henry
Stephen Crane
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Kurt Vonnegut
Edgar Allen Poe
Ursula Le Guin
Jorge Luis Borges
Kate Chopin
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Flannery O'Connor
Ernest Hemingway
F Scott Fitzgerald
Shirley Jackson
Willa Cather
The list could go on and on ... Pax - C.
PS Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat are both NOVELS by John Steinbeck - not short stories by Hemingway.
2007-03-30 08:25:14 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Truman Capote's Music for Chameleons and F. Scott
Fitzgerald's A Diamond As Big As The Ritz. Two of the
very best collection of short stories I have ever read.
2007-03-30 14:13:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love 9 stories by Salinger as well.
But I think my favorite short story is "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst.
It's a beautiful story, very poignant and really vivid. You'll never forget it. Love the Necklace too--very ironic.
If you love irony, try O'Henry stories.
Gosh, I love questions about reading...such a great change from the Anna Nicole and Brittany questions!
2007-03-30 08:38:00 · answer #3 · answered by Lori 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Neil Gaiman has a compilation of short stories titled Smoke and Mirrors.
and O. Henry (real name: William Sydney Porter) is a classic short story author.
2007-03-30 08:55:46 · answer #4 · answered by wdmc 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ernest Hemingway
Stephen king
2007-03-30 08:27:34 · answer #5 · answered by crazy_for_writing 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger.
2007-03-30 08:26:48 · answer #6 · answered by Runa 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Margaret Atwood has some short stories they are very women oriented though.
2007-03-30 08:38:46 · answer #7 · answered by chellyk 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Kate Chopin is very good. Ernest Hemingway is one of my favorites.
2007-03-30 08:24:28 · answer #8 · answered by fmxkrazyone 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant.. A classic !!! "Tortilla Flat" by Hemingway. " Cannery Row " by Hemingway
2007-03-30 08:28:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well I was going to add my two cents worth, but I think all my favorites have been suggested.
2007-03-30 09:00:44 · answer #10 · answered by AthenaGenesis 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋