| |  | Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (born February 21 1962) is an American satirical novelist and freelance journalist of Ukrainian ancestry born in... |  | Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel "The... |  | Amy Hempel is a short story writer, journalist and university professor at Bennington College. She currently lives in New York. She is a former... |  | Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947) is an American short story writer and novelist. She has received an award for excellence from the American... |  | Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 - August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. Carver is considered a major American... |  | Fredrick Barthelme (b. October 10, 1943) is an American author of short fiction and novels and a professor at the University of Southern... |  | Mary Robison (b. January 14, 1949) is an American short-story writer and novelist. She has published four collections of stories, and three novels,... |  | Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. He is best known for his short... |  | Gordon Jay Lish (born February 11, 1934 in Hewlett, New York) is an American writer. As a literary editor, he championed many American authors,... | |
