american short story writers

Dashiell Hammett

American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories

American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer

Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and was fiction editor at Boston Review

American science fiction writer

American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school

American-British novelist and screenwriter

American expatriate composer, author, and translator

Canadian-born American writer

American writer who is best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction.

Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction