This is a list of short story authors:
- Sherwood Anderson, (1876-1941)
- Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992)
- Donald Barthelme
- Charles Baxter
- Arnold Bennett
- Stefano Benni, (born 1947)
- Ambrose Bierce, (1842-c.1914)
- Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986)
- T.C. Boyle
- Leigh Brackett, (1915-1978)
- Ray Bradbury, (born 1920)
- Fredric Brown, (1906-1972)
- Dino Buzzati, (1906-1972)
- Morley Callaghan, (1903-1990)
- Raymond Carver, (1938-1988)
- John Cheever
- Anton Chekhov, (1860-1904)
- Ted Chiang
- Kate Chopin, (1850-1904)
- John Collier, (1901-1980)
- Stephen Crane, (1871-1900)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
- Peter Ho Davies
- Philip K. Dick, (1928-1982)
- Harlan Ellison
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Richard Ford
- Jacques Futrelle, (1875-1912)
- Neil Gaiman
- William H. Gass
- William Gibson, (born 1948)
- Ben K. Green
- Graham Greene, (1904-1991)
- Richard Guest
- Edmond Hamilton, (1904-1977)
- Barry Hannah
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864)
- Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961)
- O. Henry, (1862-1910)
- Hugh Hood, (1928-2000)
- Washington Irving, (1783-1859)
- Shirley Jackson, (1916-1965)
- M.R. James, (1862-1936)
- Franz Kafka, (1883-1924)
- Stephen King, (born 1947)
- R. A. Lafferty, (1914-2002)
- Ring Lardner
- Henry Lawson
- Murray Leinster, (born 1896)
- Doris Lessing, (born 1919)
- Primo Levi
- Jack London, (1876-1916)
- H. P. Lovecraft, (1890-1937)
- Earl Lovelace
- John D. MacDonald, (1916-1986)
- Katherine Mansfield, (1888-1923)
- Bobbie Ann Mason
- Somerset Maugham
- Guy de Maupassant, (1850-1893)
- Julian May, (born 1931)
- Reginald McKnight
- Herman Melville, (1819-1891)
- Steven Millhauser, (born 1943)
- Laurie Moore
- Alice Munro
- H.H. Munro ('Saki')
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Flannery O'Connor, (1925-1964)
- Frank O'Connor
- Rodrigues Ottolengui, (1861-1937)
- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
- Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849)
- Eileen Pollack
- Neal Pollack
- Damon Runyon, (1884-1947)
- J. D. Salinger
- James Salter
- Mona Simpson
- Bruce Sterling
- Frank R. Stockton, (1834-1902)
- Peter Taylor
- Harry Turtledove, (born 1949)
- Mark Twain, (1835-1910)
- Eudora Welty, (1909-2001)