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Ranker's the Best 120 Short Story Writers of All Time - Page 2

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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P G Wodehouse
P G Wodehouse
41
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
42
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
43
Alice Munro
Alice Munro
44
James Thurber
James Thurber
45
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
46
John Cheever
John Cheever
47
Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter
48
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
49
The Chain (Tobias Wolff)
The Chain (Tobias Wolff)
50
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov
51
Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett
52
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño
53
Saki
Saki
54
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
55
W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
56
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
57
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
58
Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers
59
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud
60
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig
61
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
62
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
63
Isaac Babel
Isaac Babel
64
George Saunders
George Saunders
65
Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty
66
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield
67
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
68
Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane
69
Plutarch
Plutarch
70
Varlam Shalamov
Varlam Shalamov
71
G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
72
John Updike
John Updike
73
Henry James
Henry James
74
Willa Cather
Willa Cather
75
Dino Buzzati
Dino Buzzati
76
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
77
William Trevor
William Trevor
78
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
79
Richard Yates
Richard Yates
80
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