Thorne Smith
American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith
american male short story writers
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
Michael Shaara
American author of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction
J. D. Salinger
American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye
James Salter
American novelist and short-story writer
Henry Roth
American novelist and short story writer who found success later in life after his 1934 novel Call It Sleep was reissued in paperback in 1964.
Philip Roth
American novelist and short story writer
Damon Runyon
American newspaperman and short-story writer.He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist