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

American author known for the novel The Joy Luck Club, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993 by director Wayne Wang

American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer

American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature

American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles

American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist

American novelist, short story writer and essayist

American writer who was associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists.