american male short story writers

John Updike

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

Gore Vidal

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

Mark Twain

American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer

James Thurber

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Polish-born Jewish-American writer who wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated himself into English with the help of editors and collaborators