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  2. Grace Paley - Wikipedia

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    Grace Paley. Grace Paley, née Goodside (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007) was an American short story author, poet, teacher, and political activist . Paley wrote three critically acclaimed collections of short stories, which were compiled in the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Collected Stories in 1994.

  3. Flannery O'Connor - Wikipedia

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    A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional ...

  4. George Saunders - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .georgesaundersbooks .com. George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, "American Psyche", to The Guardian 's weekend magazine between ...

  5. Shirley Jackson - Wikipedia

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    Jackson , late 1950s [6] Jackson, Hyman family [7] Jackson [7] by Erich Hartmann. Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories .

  6. Mary Gaitskill - Wikipedia

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    Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993, 2006, 2012, 2020), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998, 2008). Her books include the short story collection Bad Behavior (1988) and ...

  7. Raymond Carver - Wikipedia

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    Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976. His breakout collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), received immediate acclaim and established Carver as an important figure in ...

  8. Tillie Olsen - Wikipedia

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    January 14, 1912. Wahoo, Nebraska, U.S. Died. January 1, 2007 (aged 94) Oakland, California, U.S. Occupation. Author. Tillie Lerner Olsen (January 14, 1912 – January 1, 2007) [1] was an American writer who was associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists .

  9. Carmen Maria Machado - Wikipedia

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    Website. carmenmariamachado .com. Carmen Maria Machado (born July 3, 1986) is an American short story author, essayist, and critic best known for Her Body and Other Parties, a 2017 short story collection, and her memoir In the Dream House, which was published in 2019 and won the 2021 Folio Prize. [3] Machado is frequently published in The New ...

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