Assuming you've read a lot of short stories in school or on your own, who do you think is the best short story writer you've ever read? I say Ernest Hemingway because everytime I read his short stories I discover something new, and I've read some ten times.
2007-10-12 21:34:31 · 12 answers · asked by holacarinados 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I would have to say Fritz Leiber. Or maybe (alternately) Cornell Woolrich. Oh yeah, and then there's Roald Dahl and John Collier. Hm...guess I can't pick just one.
2007-10-13 16:17:47 · answer #1 · answered by Omar Cayenne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Raymond Carver. My personal fav and who inspired me to start writing. He wrote during the 70's and 80's and only wrote short stories (plus some poetry) in a minimalistic style similar to Hemingway but even more essential. They're all fictional realism about working class people. I highly recommend him. He pretty much reignited interest in short stories during the 80's with his use of minimalism (although I think I heard somewhere that he hated using the word minimalism to describe his work). Other favs: Richard Yates, Borges, Calvino, Oates, Kafka. Hmmm...they're so many I love. I guess it depends on what you like. Hope this helps.
2016-05-22 05:04:49 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eudora Welty
Edgar Allen Poe
2007-10-13 03:54:16 · answer #3 · answered by sounditout 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ursula K. Le Guin - Wizard of EarthSea Trilogy Started as a Short
2007-10-12 22:05:00 · answer #4 · answered by Eric H 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably Christopher Pike, considered by many the best American writer of all time. Unfortunately most of hios atories are childrens stories so probably not so well known in the adult field.
2007-10-12 21:54:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am, they hold deep personal meanings for me, in the daylight of day simmering down into darkness, the snap of twigs underfoot as they try to escape, the coldness of life as the soul departs, life in its multitudes of color blending opposites in beautiful ways, so many stories untold barely beginning and never having an end.
2007-10-13 00:12:30 · answer #6 · answered by Esoteric 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Arthur Conan Doyle, not just his Sherlock Holmes stories, but his horror stories are marvelous as well.
2007-10-12 23:12:55 · answer #7 · answered by Dan A 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like Guy De maupassant and John Glasworthy
TW K
2007-10-12 22:16:30 · answer #8 · answered by TW K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
J.D. Salinger
2007-10-13 02:36:00 · answer #9 · answered by vick kendall 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Poe.
2007-10-12 21:41:30 · answer #10 · answered by gus_zalenski 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋