Wilkie Collins
English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White , and for The Moonstone , which has been proposed as the first modern English detective novel
short story
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician
Evan S. Connell
U.S. novelist, poet, and short-story writer
Joseph Conrad
Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language
Julio Cortazar
Argentine-French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator
Stephen Crane
American poet, novelist, and short story writer
Roald Dahl
British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot
Edwidge Danticat
Haitian-American novelist and short story writer
Guy Davenport
American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.
G. K. Chesterton
English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic