Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Short stories

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Alan Lightman, American Physicist and Writer
(1948 - )

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Name: Alan Lightman
Birth: November 28, 1948, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American physicist and writer whose Einstein's Dreams combines these two interests. He has written numerous other short fiction pieces, books (nonfiction and novels), and articles.
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

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Anaïs Nin, Cuban American Author
(1903-1977)

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Name: Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Known as: Anaïs Nin
Birth: February 21, 1903, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Death: January 14, 1977, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: English
Who she was: French-born Cuban essayist and memoirist who lived most of her life and wrote in the US. Known for novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and erotica, including Delta of Venus, Little Birds, and her diaries.
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

Richard Brautigan, American Writer
(1935-1984)

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Name: Richard Brautigan
Birth: January 30, 1935, Tacoma, Washington, USA
Death: ca. September 16, 1984, Bolinas, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American novelist, poet, and short story writer whose work often uses black comedy, parody, and satire. Best known for his novels Trout Fishing in America and In Watermelon Sugar.
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

Alexander Kielland, Norwegian Writer
(1849-1906)

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Name: Alexander Kielland
Birth: February 18, 1849, Stavanger, Norway
Death: April 6, 1906, Bergen, Norway
Language: Norwegian
Who he was: Norwegian writer of short stories, plays, essays, novels, including Skipper Worse;; with Ibsen, Lie, and Bjørnson, one of Norway's "Four Greats."
Included in lists (What's This?): HCF

Alphonse Daudet, French Novelist
(1840-1897)

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Name: Alphonse Daudet
Birth: May 13, 1840, Nîmes, France
Death: December 16, 1897, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet best known for short stories, including those in Letters From My Windmill; the boffo novel Fromont Junior and Risler Senior; and the Tarscon novels, including Tartarin of Tarascon
Included in lists (What's This?): HCF

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born
British and American Writer (1927-2013)

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Name: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Birth: May 7, 1927, Cologne, Germany
Death: April 3, 2013, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: German-born British and American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter known for her novel Heat and Dust, and adapting the screenplays from E. M. Forster's Room with a View and Howards End (winning Oscars for both)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Julio Cortázar, Argentine Writer
(1914-1984)

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Name: Jules Florencio Cortázar
Known as: Julio Cortázar
Birth: August 26, 1914, Ixelles, Belgium
Death: February 12, 1984, Paris, France
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist known for Hopscotch; All Fires the Fire; Blow-up and Other Stories
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Italo Svevo, Italian Writer
(1861-1928)

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Name: Aron Ettore Schmitz
Known as: Italo Svevo
Birth: December 19, 1861, Trieste, Italy
Death: September 13, 1928, Motta di Livenza, Italy
Languages: Italian, German
Who he was: Italian novelist, playwright, and short story writer who wrote The Confession of Zeno and As a Man Grows Older
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Raymond Carver, American Writer
(1938-1988)

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Name: Raymond Carver
Birth: May 25, 1938, Clatskanie, Oregon, USA
Death: August 2, 1988, Port Angeles, Washington, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American short-story writer and poet who contributed to the revitalization of the American short story during the 1980s. His story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" was the "play within a play" in Alejandro Iñárritu's film Birdman; the short story collection Where I'm Calling From is cited by Bloom. Pulitzer Finalist for Fiction (1989)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom, GC

Harold Brodkey, American Writer
(1930-1996)

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Name: Aaron Roy Weintraub
Known as: Harold Brodkey (after adoption)
Birth: October 25, 1930, Staunton, Illinois, USA
Death: January 26, 1996, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American short-story writer and novelist known for Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (stories); The Runaway Soul (novel); and This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death (non-fiction).
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Amy Yamada, Japanese Writer
(1959 - )

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Name: Yamada Eimi
Also known as: Amy Yamada
Birth: February 8, 1959, Nakamarucho, Tokyo, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who she is: Japanese novelist and short story writer; Trash; Bedtime Eyes; The Piano Player's Fingers; 120% cool; Jesse

Jhumpa Lahiri, Indian-American Writer
(1967 - )

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Name: Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri
Known as: Jhumpa Lahiri
Birth: July 11, 1967, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who she is: Indian American novelist and short story writer; Interpreter of Maladies; The Namesake; Unaccustomed Earth; The Lowland; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2000)

Mo Yan, Chinese Writer
(1955 - )

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Name: Guan Moye
Known as: Mo Yan
Birth: February 17, 1955, Gaomi, China
Language: Chinese
Who he is: Chinese novelist and short story writer; Red Sorghum Clan; The Republic of Wine; Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out; Nobel Prize in Literature (2012)

Murakami Ryu, Japanese Writer
(1952 - )

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Name: Murakami Ryūnosuke
Known as: Murakami Ryu
Birth: February 19, 1952, Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who he is: Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist, and filmmaker; Almost Transparent Blue; Coin Locker Babies; In the Miso Soup

Murakami Haruki, Japanese Writer
(1949 - )

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Name: Murakami Haruki
Birth: January 12, 1949, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who he is: Japanese novelist, short-story writer, and essayist; A Wild Sheep Chase; Norwegian Wood; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Kafka on the Shore; 1Q84

Tobias Wolff, American Writer
(1945 - )

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Name: Tobias Wolff
Birth: June 19, 1945, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist; memoirs This Boy's Life; In Pharaoh's Army; novels Ugly Rumours; The Barracks Thief; Old School

Alice Walker, American Writer and Activist
(1944 - )

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Name: Alice Walker
Birth: February 9, 1944, Putnam County, Georgia, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist; The Color Purple; Meridian; The Third Life of Grange Copeland; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983)

Joyce Carol Oates, American Writer
(1938 - )

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Name: Joyce Carol Oates
Birth: June 16, 1938, Lockport, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American novelist, playwright, short story writer, poet, and nonfiction writer; them; Black Water; What I Lived For; Blonde; short story collections The Wheel of Love and Other Stories and Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories; Pulitzer Finalist for Fiction (1993, 1995, 2015)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Thomas Pynchon, American Novelist
(1937 - )

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Name: Thomas Pynchon
Birth: May 8, 1937, Glen Cove, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American novelist; V.; The Crying of Lot 49; Gravity's Rainbow; Mason & Dixon; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1974; reversed)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC

Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian Writer
(1936 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa
Known as: Mario Vargas Llosa
Birth: March 28, 1936, Arequipa, Peru
Language: Spanish
Who he is: Peruvian novelist, short story writer, and essayist; The Time of the Hero; Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter; The War of the End of the World; The Feast of the Goat; The Bad Girl; Nobel Prize in Literature (2010)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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