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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.
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.
Drowning is a short play by María Irene Fornés. It was created as one of seven plays during the mid-1980’s based on short stories written by Anton Chekhov. [1] Fornés used his story as the framework upon which she built. Alongside Drowning Fornés also created her play Mud.
The sixty-four-year-old Dmitry Grigorovich, a celebrated Russian writer of the day, wrote to Chekhov after reading his short story "The Huntsman" that [47] "You have real talent, a talent that places you in the front rank among writers in the new generation." He went on to advise Chekhov to slow down, write less, and concentrate on literary ...
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.
The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s. [ 5 ] The story has been adapted numerous times , most notably as the 1932 RKO Pictures film The Most Dangerous Game , starring Joel McCrea , Leslie Banks and Fay Wray , [ 6 ] and for a 1943 ...
“The Night of the Iguana” is a short story by Tennessee Williams first appearing in the collection One Arm and Other Stories (1948) published by New Directions. [1] Elements of the story provided the basis for Williams's play The Night of the Iguana (1961). [2] [3] The play was in turn adapted to a film of the same name (1964) directed by ...
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 ...