Modern Fabulists
- Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910).
- Rafael Pombo (1833–1912) Colombian fabulist, poet and writer.
- Nico Maniquis (1834–1912).
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 – ?1914).
- Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916).
- George Ade (1866–1944), Fables in Slang, etc.
- Władysław Reymont (1868–1925).
- Felix Salten (1869–1945).
- Don Marquis (1878–1937), author of the fables of archy and mehitabel.
- Franz Kafka (1883–1924).
- Damon Runyon (1884–1946).
- James Thurber (1894–1961), Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time.
- George Orwell (1903 – 50).
- Dr. Seuss (1904 – 91).
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 – 91).
- José Saramago (1922–2010).
- Randall Kenan (born 1963).
- Italo Calvino (1923 – 85), Cosmicomics etc.
- Arnold Lobel (1933 – 87), author of Fables, winner 1981 Caldecott Medal.
- Ramsay Wood (born 1943), author of Kalila and Dimna: Fables of Friendship and Betrayal.
- Bill Willingham (born 1956), author of Fables graphic novels.
- David Sedaris (born 1956), author of Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
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