20th-century american short story writers

Eudora Welty

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

American novelist, short story writer, and designer

American writer

American playwright and screenwriter

American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer

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

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

American writer

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

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