Fiction, Novel, Short Story
- 2007 — John Updike
- 2001 — Philip Roth
- 1995 — William Maxwell
- 1989 — Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1982 — Bernard Malamud
- 1978 — Peter Taylor
- 1977 — Saul Bellow
- 1972 — Eudora Welty
- 1962 — William Faulkner
- 1957 — John Dos Passos
- 1952 — Thornton Wilder
- 1944 — Willa Cather
- 1933 — Booth Tarkington
- 1929 — Edith Wharton
- 1924 — Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer
- 1915 — William Dean Howells
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Famous quotes containing the words short story, short and/or story:
“You can write anything you want to,—a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What’s the use? You can never be smarter than you are.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“[On being asked “what sort of future she anticipates having”:] A very short one.”
—Jeanne Calment (b. c. 1875)
“... if there’s a house, then there is a wall ... between them and the outside world. The ideal is to stay inside and to never have to go out, and the whole idea of staying home is really important. I think men do get out, but it is not glamorized the way it is here in America, where the big story is to ride out and go someplace and to travel.”
—Gish Jen (b. 1956)