american male short story writers

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 Thurber

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

John Steinbeck

American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception.” He has been called “a giant of American letters.”During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories

Thorne Smith

American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith