20th-century american short story writers

Eudora Welty

American short story writer, novelist and photographer, who wrote about the American South

Gore Vidal

American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner

John Updike

American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Mark Twain

American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer

James Tiptree Jr.

American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death

James Thurber

American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit