Fable - Modern Fabulists

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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