Favorite short story author

[Amy Murdoch Coleman]

I love Charlotte Perkins Gilman. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is such a bizarre story that really gives you insight into how women were essentially second-class citizens in the United States until very recently.

[Bigwig1973]

Overall, I would have to pick James Herriot (British veterinarian) because I had so much fun reading his books to my daughters - they (and I) enjoyed his stories so much. If it weren't for my daughters, I would probably pick Edgar Allen Poe, Leo Tolstoy, or Fyodor Dostoevsky. Eudora Welty's "Why I Live at the P.O." is very good but I haven't read anything else by her.

[Violet Devreaux]

Joyce Carol Oates has a lot of great short stories. There's also Samanta Schweblin who writes really cool absurdist short stories.

[Linda Reyburn Shirey]

Roald Dahl has some great shorts - HH Munro or Saki is definitely the master. “Sredni Vashtar” and “The Toys of Peace” are equally great.

[FelinaAlpuertoPittman2859+]

I like O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi, " and Ernest Hemingway's famous short story, "The Old Man and the Sea."