American short story writers

Raymond Carver was a well-known American short story writer and poet. Neighbors, which was published in 1971 and Cathedral, which was published 10 years later, was two of out of many short stories that he wrote. The short story Neighbors is about a couple, Bill and Arlene Miller, who were left to take care of their neighbors’ apartment while they were away on a trip. While house sitting, the couple spends time at their neighbors’ apartment and becomes interesting in their possessions. As time…

African American writers were determined to define black art by their own benefit and take away its real standards (Rambsy). “A great essayist, novelist, professor, short story writer, and filmmaker, Toni Cade Bambara, who was born March 25, 1939 as Miltonia Mirkin Cade in New York City” (Horsley). “She became a great leader for many female voices during the movement, Bambara placed a special emphasis in her writing on black females-both girls and women” (Rambsy). In many of her short stories,…

Ernest Hemingway was a fascinating writer that became the inspiration of many others to follow and a proud example of American literature. ”Papa”, as he nicknamed himself, was an adventurer and as such tried to get by life with enthusiasm and live at its potential. He is part of the “Lost Generation” that included famous writers like Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T. S. Eliot. Their literature had similar themes like: lack of control, alcoholism, and gender. His works have a perfect…

identity, since name symbolizes how he sees himself and how he wants to be seen by others. Later, Gogol changes his name to Nikhil, since he feels it reflects his dual identity, both being Indian and also American, better. Nikhil is indeed a Bengali name but it can also be shortened to an American nickname, Nick. Therefore, it is a hybrid name in which it will be easier for him to deal better with his dual…

“William Timothy O’Brien is a renowned American writer, famous for writing novels on the Vietnam War.” (FamousAuthors). One of his most famous novels is called “The Things They Carried.” O’Brien was born on October 1, 1946 in Austin, Minnesota. He grew up in Worthington, where that city played an important role in shaping his imagination and developing his artistic sensibility. Although O’Brien was against the war, he was conscripted into the United States Army and sent to Vietnam where he…

Jack London, pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney (born January 12, 1876, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died November 22, 1916, Glen Ellen, California), American novelist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. He is one of the most extensively translated of American authors. Deserted by his father, a roving astrologer, London was raised in Oakland, California, by his spiritualist mother and his stepfather, whose surname, London, he took. At…

Herman Melville’s career is that his masterpiece, Moby-Dick, which is now considered one of the greatest American novels, was almost wholly ignored during the time of its author. Although he might have thought of himself as a complete failure, he came to be one of the greatest American writers. During the American Renaissance period, Melville came to be a great American novelist, short story writer, and poet. While traveling on the remote and stranded sea, Melville writes his firsthand…

lifetime achievement in 1990, and was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2006 (African American Poets). Most of her short stories expressed the struggles of black women and their lives in a racist, sexist, and violent society (Poem Hunter). “To Hell with Dying” was published when she was just twenty-three years old. It appeared in the “Best Short Stories by Negro Writers”. This short story was also edited by Langston Hughes and republished in 1988 as a children's book (Literary…

Non-Fiction Essay English Composition - 01G July 3rd, 2017 Andrew Lam and Identity In Andrew Lam's "Who Will Light the Incense When Mother's Gone?" the writer is attempting to get the peruser to comprehend that custom ought not kick the bucket but rather alongside life things, for example, convention will change as life does. In the story his mom is 70 years of age now and is apprehensive large portions of her customs and confidence won't be conveyed along by her family. Numerous things…

Biography Profile Introduction: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor that had many famous poems like The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Tell Tale Tell Heart. He is best known for his poems and his short stories, mostly the tales of mysteries and the macabre. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809 and died on October 7, 1849. He was the first well known American writer to try to earn a living with writing alone which is normally very…