Short Story Writer

This page lists 1,606 biographies of short story writers, covering lives from 1301 to 1998. Featuring Alexander Serafimovich, Georges Duhamel and José Luis Sampedro. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Rosemund Handler

Paramita Satpathy

b. 1965

Michael G. Williams

b. 1974

Faizul Islam (writer)

1963 – 2025

Horacio Quiroga

1878 – 1937

Adolfo R. Carrillo

1855 – 1926

Jamal Mirsadeghi

b. 1933

Kristen Roupenian

b. 1982

Henry Irving Dodge

1861 – 1934

Ann K. Schwader

b. 1960

Rajesh Chithira

Zlatoje Martinov

b. 1953

Masood Ashar

1931 – 2021

Lucy Wood

Larisa Vaneeva

b. 1953

Aamer Hussein

b. 1955

Marissa Lingen

b. 1978

Frederick Carruthers Cornell

1867 – 1921

Salha Obeid

b. 1988

Mohan Kalpana

1930 – 1992

Mushtaq Ahmed Mushtaq

b. 1961

Ilyas Sitapuri

1934 – 2003

Nadia Al Najjar

Mohammad Hameed Shahid

b. 1957

Timothy Montes

b. 1970

Sundri Uttamchandani

1924 – 2013

Lemuel de Bra

1884 – 1954

Nicolas Weinberg

b. 1967

Ghulam Abbas

1909 – 1982

Russell J. Oakes

1909 – 1952

Ali Douagi

1909 – 1949

Ana Paula Lisboa

Yvonne du Fresne

1929 – 2011

Chenkulath Cheriya Kunhirama Menon

1882 – 1939

Carrie R. Moore

John D. MacDonald

1916 – 1986

Helen Langworthy

1899 – 1991

Laila al-Othman

b. 1943

Jo Lloyd

T. J. Benson

Celso Al. Carunungan

1901 – 1988

Lydia Peelle

b. 1978

Barb Goffman

Jenna Bass

b. 1986

Dmitrii Milev

1887 – 1937

Sreejith Moothedath

b. 1978

Shafiqa Zawqari

b. 1942

Mena Abdullah

b. 1930

Hélène Rioux

b. 1949

Marjorie Bowen

1885 – 1952

Margaret (Marnie) Kennedy

1919 – 1985

Anastasia Eristavi-Khoshtaria

1868 – 1951

Nadine Bismuth

b. 1975

Chiang Ho Yung

1921 – 2011

A. J. Bermudez

b. 1987

Nalin Raval

1933 – 2021

Sayaka Murata

b. 1979

Sadiqul Khairi

1915 – 1989

Asokan Charuvil

b. 1957

Jacquie Sturm

1927 – 2009

Giovanni Boccaccio

1313 – 1375

Hisaye Yamamoto

1921 – 2011

Emilio Díaz Valcárcel

1929 – 2015

Lucy Honig

1948 – 2017

Christiane Frenette

b. 1954

Nick Farmer

Shaukat Siddiqui

1923 – 2006

Anthony Veasna So

1992 – 2020

Haya Saleh

b. 1977

Shabnum Gul

b. 1963

Smith Henderson

b. 1974

Salwa Mahmasani Mumnah

1908 – 1957

Khalique Ibrahim Khalique

1926 – 2006

Mahendrasinh Parmar

b. 1967

Esther Croft

b. 1945

Mavji Maheshwari

b. 1964

Laura Palmer Archer

1864 – 1929

Neelam Bashir

b. 1950

Marie Louise Andrews

1849 – 1891

Marie Régnier

1840 – 1887

Chitra Fernando

1935 – 1998

Rose Terry Cooke

1827 – 1892

Sa'id Taqi al-Din

1904 – 1960

Isabella St. John

1792 – 1875

Vasdev Mohi

b. 1944

V. R. Sudheesh

Khalid Akhtar

1920 – 2002

Jihan Ghazawi Awni

1916 – 1956

Padma Hejmadi

Maya Arriz Tamza

b. 1957

Kali Charan Hembram

b. 1960

Tarini Desai

b. 1935

Angelo Rodriguez Lacuesta

b. 1970

Lyndall Hadow

1903 – 1976

S. V. Venugopan Nair

1945 – 2022

Hilarie Lindsay

1922 – 2021

Maryam Jumaa Faraj

Octavio G. Barreda

1897 – 1964

Ellin Berlin

1903 – 1988

Seán Ó Faoláin

1900 – 1991