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Ranker's the Best 120 Short Story Writers of All Time - Page 3

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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Honoré De Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
81
Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison
82
Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson
83
Voltaire
Voltaire
84
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
85
Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme
86
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
87
Ivan Bunin
Ivan Bunin
88
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
89
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri
90
Richard Wright
Richard Wright
91
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
92
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
93
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
94
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin
95
Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Blackwood
96
Frank O'Connor
Frank O'Connor
97
Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
98
E.T.A. Hoffmann
E.T.A. Hoffmann
99
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
100
Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson
101
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie
102
Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shaw
103
Philip Roth
Philip Roth
104
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
105
Daphne Du Maurier
Daphne Du Maurier
106
Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Böll
107
Truman Capote
Truman Capote
108
J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard
109
Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore
110
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
111
Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon
112
Junot Diaz
Junot Diaz
113
Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard
114
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
115
Heinrich Von Kleist
Heinrich Von Kleist
116
Machado De Assis
Machado De Assis
117
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
118
Fritz Leiber
Fritz Leiber
119
João Guimarães Rosa
João Guimarães Rosa
120
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