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Leslie Stephen (En, 1832–1904) – Dictionary of National Biography, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift George Eliot and Thomas Hobbes; Jane Agnes Stewart (US, 1860–1944) — Frances Willard; Irving Stone (US, 1903–1989) Lytton Strachey (En, 1880–1932) – eminent Victorians
This is a partial list of published short-story authors: A–B. Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906–1954) Mazhar Abro (born 1971) Chinua Achebe (1930–2013)
Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 [1] [2] – December 10, 1946) was an American journalist and short-story writer. [3] He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type ...
John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was an American writer. He was one of America's most prolific writers of short stories, credited with helping to invent The New Yorker magazine short story style. [1]
Biographical criticism is a form of literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their literary works. [2] Biographical criticism is often associated with historical-biographical criticism , [ 3 ] a critical method that "sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a ...
Her career as a short story writer launched in 1881 when she took first place in a short story contest with her submission “The Ghost Family.” [7] When the supernatural caught her interest, the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism with supernaturalism and these have proved very influential. Her best known work ...
He is the author of three collections of short stories and three novels. City of Bohane (2011) was the winner of the 2013 International Dublin Literary Award . Beatlebone (2015) won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize and is one of seven books by Irish authors nominated for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award , [ 1 ] the world's most valuable ...
A Short Autobiography: 1940 Zora Neale Hurston: Dust Tracks on a Road: 1942 Stefan Zweig: The World of Yesterday: 1942 Dylan Thomas: Holiday Memory: 1942 Richard Wright: Black Boy: 1945 George Orwell: Such, Such Were the Joys... 1947 Nirad C. Chaudhuri: The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian: 1951 Christy Brown: My Left Foot: 1954 Elie Wiesel ...