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His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. [e] [5] [6] Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. [7] Chekhov was a physician by profession.
Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. He wrote hundreds of short stories, one novel, and seven full-length plays.
William Sydney Porter, pen name O. Henry (1862–1910) Erin Pringle (born 1981) Annie Proulx (born 1935) Bolesław Prus (1847–1912) Indra Bahadur Rai (1927–2018) James Robison (born 1946) José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (born 1971) Emma May Alexander Reinertsen (1853–1920) Susanne Ringell (born 1955) Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980) Philip ...
William Saroyan [2] (/ s ə ˈ r ɔɪ ə n /; August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer.He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy.
1914 "The East Wing" (short story, in Lucas's Annual / Methuen's Annual) Posthumous publications. 1919 The Toys of Peace (short stories) 1924 The Square Egg and Other Sketches (short stories) 1924 The Watched Pot (play, co-authored with Charles Maude) 1926–27 The Works of Saki (8 volumes) 1930 The Complete Short Stories of Saki
The Letter is a 1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham, dramatised from a short story that first appeared in his 1926 collection The Casuarina Tree.The story was inspired by the real-life Ethel Proudlock case which involved the wife of the headmaster of Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur who was convicted in a murder trial after shooting dead a male friend in April 1911.
Mary McGarry Morris (born February 10, 1943) is an American novelist, short story author and playwright from New England.She uses its towns as settings for her works. In 1991, Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times described Morris as "one of the most skillful new writers at work in America today"; [1] The Washington Post has described her as a "superb storyteller"; [2] and The Miami Herald ...
Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is perhaps best known for his debut short story collection, Jesus' Son (1992). His most successful novel, Tree of Smoke (2007), won the National Book Award for Fiction . [ 2 ]