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Ranker's the Best 120 Short Story Writers of All Time

List of the best short story writers of all time. From Voltaire to George Saunders, a complete list of the greatest short story authors who have written works in English or whose works have been translated into English
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Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
1
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
2
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
3
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
4
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
5
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
6
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
7
Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver
8
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
9
O. Henry
O. Henry
10
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
11
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
12
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
13
Guy De Maupassant
Guy De Maupassant
14
James Joyce
James Joyce
15
J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger
16
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
17
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
18
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
19
Jack London
Jack London
20
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
21
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
22
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
23
Julio Cortazar
Julio Cortazar
24
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
25
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
26
H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
27
Stephen King
Stephen King
28
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
29
H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells
30
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson
31
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
32
Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
33
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
34
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
35
Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
36
D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence
37
Brothers Grimm
Brothers Grimm
38
Washington Irving
Washington Irving
39
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
40
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