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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
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
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Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
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Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
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O. Henry
O. Henry
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
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Guy De Maupassant
Guy De Maupassant
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James Joyce
James Joyce
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J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger
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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Jack London
Jack London
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
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Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
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Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
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Julio Cortazar
Julio Cortazar
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville
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H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
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Stephen King
Stephen King
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells
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Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson
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Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
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Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
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Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
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Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
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D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence
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Brothers Grimm
Brothers Grimm
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Washington Irving
Washington Irving
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
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