Famous short story writers
author or writer of short stories
497 people
Walter Scott
1771
– 1832
· Age 61
Deceased
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1846
– 1916
· Age 70
Deceased
Tom Hanks
1956
· Age 69
Alive
Mary Shelley
1797
– 1851
· Age 53
Deceased
Lu Xun
1881
– 1936
· Age 55
Deceased
Haruki Murakami
1949
· Age 77
Alive
Alice Munro
1931
– 2024
· Age 92
Deceased
Nadine Gordimer
1923
– 2014
· Age 90
Deceased
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896
– 1940
· Age 44
Deceased
Grazia Deledda
1871
– 1936
· Age 64
Deceased
Ivo Andrić
1892
– 1975
· Age 82
Deceased
Kurt Vonnegut
1922
– 2007
· Age 84
Deceased
Mikhail Sholokhov
1905
– 1984
· Age 78
Deceased
Mikhail Bulgakov
1891
– 1940
· Age 48
Deceased
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804
– 1864
· Age 59
Deceased
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811
– 1896
· Age 85
Deceased
Milan Kundera
1929
– 2023
· Age 94
Deceased
George R. R. Martin
1948
· Age 77
Alive
V. S. Naipaul
1932
– 2018
· Age 85
Deceased
Alphonse Daudet
1840
– 1897
· Age 57
Deceased
Yukio Mishima
1925
– 1970
· Age 45
Deceased
Roald Dahl
1916
– 1990
· Age 74
Deceased
Henry James
1843
– 1916
· Age 72
Deceased
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1887
– 1970
· Age 82
Deceased
Philip K. Dick
1928
– 1982
· Age 53
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q15949613