This is a partial list of short story authors:

• Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
• Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
• Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
• Charles Baxter (born 1947)
• Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
• Stefano Benni (born 1947)
• Ambrose Bierce (1842-c.1914)
• Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
• T.C. Boyle (born 1948)
• Leigh Brackett (1915-1978)
• Ray Bradbury (born 1920)
• Fredric Brown (1906-1972)
• Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
• Dino Buzzati (1906-1972)
• Morley Callaghan (1903-1990)
• Angela Carter (1940-1992)
• Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
• John Cheever (1912-1982)
• Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
• Ted Chiang (born 1967)
• Kate Chopin (1850-1904)
• John Collier (1901-1980)
• Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
• Catherine Crowe (1800-1876)
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
• Julio Cortazar (1914-1984)
• Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
• Peter Ho Davies
• Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
• Andre Dubus (1936-1999)
• Harlan Ellison (born 1934)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
• Rubem Fonseca (born 1925)
• Richard Ford (born 1944)
• Jacques Futrelle (1875-1912)
• Neil Gaiman (born 1960)
• Paul Gallico (1897-1976)
• William H. Gass (born 1924)
• William Gibson (born 1948)
• Ben K. Green (died 1974)
• Graham Greene (1904-1991)
• Davis Grubb (1919-1980)
• Richard Guest (born 1967)
• Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977)
• Barry Hannah (born 1942)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
• Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
• O. Henry (1862-1910)
• Hugh Hood (1928-2000)
• Rhys Hughes (born 1966)
• Hwang Sun-wŏn (born 1915)
• Washington Irving (1783-1859)
• Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)
• Tatjana Jambrisak
• M.R. James (1862-1936)
• Thom Jones
• Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
• Stephen King (born 1947)
• R. A. Lafferty (1914-2002)
• Ring Lardner (1885-1933)
• Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
• Murray Leinster (born 1896)
• Doris Lessing (born 1919)
• Primo Levi (1919-1987)
• William Levy (born 1939)
• Thomas Ligotti (born 1951)
• Jack London (1876-1916)
• H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
• Darko Macan (born 1966)
• John D. MacDonald (1916-1986)
• Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
• Bobbie Ann Mason
• Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
• Julian May (born 1931)
• Reginald McKnight
• Herman Melville (1819-1891)
• Holdemar Menezes (1921-1996)
• Steven Millhauser (born 1943)
• Lorrie Moore (born 1957)
• Alice Munro (born 1931)
• H.H. Munro ('Saki') (1870-1916)
• Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938)
• Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
• Frank O'Connor (1903-1966)
• Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984)
• John O'Hara (1905-1970)
• Rodrigues Ottolengui (1861-1937)
• Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
• Dalibor Perkovic (born 1974)
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
• Eileen Pollack
• Neal Pollack
• Damon Runyon (1884-1947)
• J. D. Salinger (born 1919)
• James Salter (born 1925)
• "Saki," see H. H. Munro
• Sérgio Sant'anna
• Mona Simpson
• Bruce Sterling
• Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902)
• Peter Taylor
• Sergio Troncoso (born 1961)
• Harry Turtledove (born 1949)
• Mark Twain (1835-1910)
• John Updike
• Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
• Tobias Wolff
• Aleksandar Ziljak (born 1963)
• Thomas Cherian {Born 1966}

See also: Lists of authors, List of Canadian short story writers