Famous short story writers
author or writer of short stories
497 people
O. Henry
1862
– 1910
· Age 47
Deceased
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
1892
– 1927
· Age 35
Deceased
Han Kang
1970
· Age 55
Alive
Henry Miller
1891
– 1980
· Age 88
Deceased
E. T. A. Hoffmann
1776
– 1822
· Age 46
Deceased
Peter Handke
1942
· Age 83
Alive
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1977
· Age 48
Alive
Alice Walker
1944
· Age 82
Alive
Karen Blixen
1885
– 1962
· Age 77
Deceased
Marguerite Yourcenar
1903
– 1987
· Age 84
Deceased
Ivan Franko
1856
– 1916
· Age 59
Deceased
Colette
1873
– 1954
· Age 81
Deceased
Heinrich von Kleist
1777
– 1811
· Age 34
Deceased
Henry Fielding
1707
– 1754
· Age 47
Deceased
Amélie Nothomb
1967
· Age 58
Alive
James Baldwin
1924
– 1987
· Age 63
Deceased
A. A. Milne
1882
– 1956
· Age 74
Deceased
Aleksandr Kuprin
1870
– 1938
· Age 67
Deceased
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
1836
– 1870
· Age 34
Deceased
Frances Hodgson Burnett
1849
– 1924
· Age 74
Deceased
Evelyn Waugh
1903
– 1966
· Age 62
Deceased
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
1830
– 1916
· Age 85
Deceased
Isaak Babel
1894
– 1940
· Age 45
Deceased
Nora Ephron
1941
– 2012
· Age 71
Deceased
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
1826
– 1889
· Age 63
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q15949613