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Short story writer Biographies
Every archived life recorded as short story writer, ordered by their place in the ledger.
Medieval era
Giovanni Boccaccio
June 16, 1313 – September 21, 1375
Italian author and poet (1313–1375)
Modern era
Jane Austen
December 16, 1775 – July 18, 1817
English novelist whose social comedies never left print
Modern era
Oscar Wilde
October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
Modern era
Robert Louis Stevenson
November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894
Scottish novelist and poet (1850–1894)
Modern era
Harriet Beecher Stowe
June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896
American abolitionist and author (1811–1896)
Modern era
Virginia Woolf
January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
Modern era
Franz Kafka
July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
Modern era
Thomas Mann
June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
Modern era
F. Scott Fitzgerald
September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940
American writer (1896–1940)
Modern era
William Faulkner
September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962
American writer (1897-1962)
Modern era
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
March 6, 1927 – April 17, 2014
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
Modern era
Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari
1895 – August 20, 1971
Punjabi writer
Modern era
Sukanta Bhattacharya
August 15, 1926 – May 13, 1947
Bengali poet (1926–1947)
Modern era
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
April 17, 1912 – April 10, 1999
Novelist and short story writer of Malayalam language (1912–1999)
Modern era
Gaganendranath Tagore
September 18, 1867 – February 14, 1938
Indian painter and cartoonist of the Bengal school (1867-1938)
Modern era
Guy de Maupassant
August 5, 1850 – July 6, 1893
French writer (1850-1893)
Contemporary era
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
b. September 15, 1977
Nigerian writer (born 1977)