The demand for quality short stories was so great and the money paid for such so well that F. Scott Fitzgerald repeatedly turned to short-story ( as Matthews preferred to write it ) writing to pay his numerous debts.

Francis Iles, writing in The Guardian, noting the short-story format, " thought it better than the novels " and wrote that " the first story is full of the old wild improbabilities, but one of the others has a positively Maughamish flavour.

In view of his vast influence over Persian short-story writing, he is often referred to as the father of this genre in Iran.

Crime writing, as defined by the CWC, is any fictional or factual book-length work, novella or short-story that features crime as a major or principal element, and is written for any print or electronic medium.

Herman Charles Bosman ( 3 February 1905 – 14 October 1951 ) is widely regarded as South Africa's greatest short-story writer.

The first case was a short-story entitled " First Law " and is often considered an insignificant " tall tale " or even apocryphal.

* William Sydney Porter, short-story writer better-known as " O. Henry "; his most famous story is " The Ransom of Red Chief ".

Though the Silver Age is famous mostly for its poetry, it produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, Fedor Sologub, Aleksey Remizov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely, though most of them wrote poetry as well as prose.

In addition to the novels listed below, he is the author of the short-story collection The Perseids and Other Stories, set in Toronto.

Helen Garner ( born 7 November 1942 ) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.

Like Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Musaeum Clausum is a catalogue of doubts and queries, only this time, in a style that anticipates Jorge Luis Borges, a 20th century Argentinian short-story writer who once declared: " To write vast books is a laborious nonsense, much better is to offer a summary as if those books actually existed.

He is described as " a novelist, short-story writer, lyricist and passionate champion of literary and intellectual independence ".

The social realist movement is perhaps best represented by the short-story writer Sait Faik Abasıyanık ( 1906 – 1954 ), whose work sensitively and realistically treats the lives of cosmopolitan Istanbul's lower classes and ethnic minorities, subjects which led to some criticism in the contemporary nationalistic atmosphere.

Nina Viktorovna Gorlanova (, born 23 November 1947 ) is a modern short-story writer and novelist who has been living in a provincial Russian city Perm.

Their daughter Julia O ' Faolain ( b. 1932 ) is a Booker-nominated novelist and short-story writer.

Another short-story collection of his is entitled The Burial of the Guns ( 1894 ).

I Before E is the name of both a short-story collection by Sam Kieth and a music album by Carissa's Wierd, in each case alluding to the unusual spelling of the creator's name.

Benedict Anderson argues that Khamsing is the best known short-story writer in the Kingdom of Thailand.

Suhayl Idris ( 1923-2008 ) is a Lebanese novelist, short-story writer, journalist and translator.

Mamta ( motherly love ) is a famous short-story based on an incident where a Mughal Badshah gets refuge in a Hindu widow's home whose father was killed by Badshah's army.

The Rogers Writers ' Trust Fiction Prize, worth, is awarded to the novel or short-story collection that, in the opinion of the judges, is the year ’ s best book of fiction.

Roy Jacobsen ( born 26 December 1954 ) is a Norwegian novelist and short-story writer.

In Serling's original first-draft script ( and in his short-story adaptation that appeared in the 1960 anthology, " Stories From ' The Twilight Zone '"), the team was supposed to have been the Brooklyn Dodgers stadium in the original story: " Tebbet's Field ", who, like the fictitious " Hoboken Zephyrs ", moved West in 1958 to become the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Leading poets include Bjarni Thorarensen and Jónas Hallgrímsson, pioneers of the Romantic movement in Iceland ; Matthías Jochumsson, author of Iceland's national anthem ; Þorsteinn Erlingsson, lyricist ; Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran, a pioneer of realism in Icelandic literature and an outstanding short-story writer ; Einar Benediktsson, ranked as one of the greatest modern Icelandic poets ; Jóhann Sigurjónsson, who lived much of his life in Denmark and wrote many plays based on Icelandic history and legend, as well as poetry ; and the novelist Halldór Laxness, who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1955.

At first, this movement crystallized around the magazine Genç Kalemler ( کنج قلملر ; " Young Pens "), which was begun in the city of Selânik in 1911 by the three writers who were most representative of the movement: Ziya Gökalp ( 1876 – 1924 ), a sociologist and thinker ; Ömer Seyfettin ( 1884 – 1920 ), a short-story writer ; and Ali Canip Yöntem ( 1887 – 1967 ), a poet.

He dropped out of school to manage the store, becoming the sole support of his mother, his younger brother, Robert ( who became a successful novelist and short-story writer ) and sister, Lorraine.

In 1927, Edwin Balmer, a short-story writer who had written for the magazine, took over as editor ; in the summer of 1929 the magazine was bought by McCall Corporation, which changed the name to Redbook but kept Balmer on as editor.

Mrs. Neville — Cory's teacher in the beginning of the book, who encourages him to enter a short-story contest.

Dr. Luis Rafael Sánchez, a. k. a. " Wico " Sánchez ( born 1936 ) is a Puerto Rican essayist, novelist, and short-story author who is widely considered one of the island's most outstanding contemporary playwrights.

Trelech was the birthplace on 18 November 1801 of David Rees ( Y Cynhyrfwr ), the reforming Welsh Congregationalist minister, and on 3 November 1879 of the reporter, poet, and short-story writer Perceval Gibbon, who travelled extensively in Europe, Africa, and the Americas and died in Guernsey on 30 May 1926.

Benito Lynch ( 1885 – 1951 ), an eccentric short-story writer who, like Güiraldes, does not easily fit into any " generation ", wrote his quirky tales in an enchanted new-gauchoesque manner about this time.

James Farl Powers ( July 8, 1917June 12, 1999 ) was a Roman Catholic American novelist and short-story writer who often drew his inspiration from developments in the Catholic Church, and was known for his studies of midwestern Catholic priests.

* Leonid Andreyev ( or Andrejew ) ( 1871 – 1919 ), a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature

** Andre Dubus, American short-story writer ( b. 1936 )

* September 3 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian short-story writer and novelist ( d. 1990 )

* August 2 – Raymond Carver, American short-story writer & poet ( b. 1938 )

* August 11 – Andre Dubus, American short-story writer ( d. 1999 )

* October 25 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer ( b. 1886 )

* April 8 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer ( d. 1967 )

** Arishima Takeo, Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist ( d. 1923 )

In 2002, a satyrical short-story The First Russian ( პირველი რუსი ) penned by the young Georgian writer Lasha Bughadze and focused on a frustrated wedding night of Tamar and Yuri outraged many conservatives and triggered a nationwide controversy, including heated discussions in the media, the Parliament of Georgia and the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church.

Before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II.

* Sheridan Le Fanu ( 1814 – 1873 ), Irish novelist and short-story writer

Christina Stead ( 17 July 1902 – 31 March 1983 ) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations.

* Frank Tuohy ( 1925 — 1999 ), novelist and short-story writer, lived in Shepton Mallet following his retirement, and died in the town's hospital on 11 April 1999.

* Brad Barkley, novelist and short-story writer

* Breece D ' J Pancake, short-story writer was born in South Charleston

) However, many see the Carmarthenshire-born satirical short-story writer and novelist Caradoc Evans ( 1878 – 1945 ) as the first — or first modern — Welsh writer in English.

His short-story collections My People ( 1915 ) and Capel Sion ( 1916 ) were highly controversial, and Roland Mathias bitterly comments that " No other Anglo-Welsh prose writer.

Broster was a British novelist and short-story writer, born in Garston, Liverpool at Devon Lodge ( now known as Monksferry House ), which lies in Grassendale Park on the banks of the River Mersey.

* August 4-Virgilio Piñera, poet and short-story writer ( died 1979 )

was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist during the late Meiji and Taishō periods.

* August 28-Liam O ' Flaherty, novelist and short-story writer

* November 7-Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer

* August 28 – Max Shulman, novelist, short-story writer and dramatist