Famous short story writers

author or writer of short stories

497 people

All Alive Deceased
Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910 · Age 82
Deceased
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1821 – 1881 · Age 59
Deceased
Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

1861 – 1941 · Age 80
Deceased
Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

1812 – 1870 · Age 58
Deceased
Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

1860 – 1904 · Age 44
Deceased
Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

1883 – 1924 · Age 40
Deceased
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

1809 – 1849 · Age 40
Deceased
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

1854 – 1900 · Age 46
Deceased
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

1899 – 1961 · Age 61
Deceased
Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

1927 – 2014 · Age 87
Deceased
Jane Austen

Jane Austen

1775 – 1817 · Age 41
Deceased
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

1899 – 1986 · Age 86
Deceased
Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

1859 – 1930 · Age 71
Deceased
Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

1882 – 1941 · Age 59
Deceased
Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz

1911 – 2006 · Age 94
Deceased
Émile Zola

Émile Zola

1840 – 1902 · Age 62
Deceased
Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

1875 – 1955 · Age 80
Deceased
Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran

1883 – 1931 · Age 48
Deceased
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918 – 2008 · Age 89
Deceased
T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

1888 – 1965 · Age 76
Deceased
Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

1850 – 1893 · Age 42
Deceased
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

1850 – 1894 · Age 44
Deceased
Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

1313 – 1375 · Age 62
Deceased
Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

1818 – 1883 · Age 64
Deceased
William Faulkner

William Faulkner

1897 – 1962 · Age 64
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q15949613