I Need a Short Story American Author?

Question

Can ya help me?

They have to have written at least three short stories and they have to be American. ((thats the guidelines they gave me at school))

if you give me the names of the stories you're amazing and ten points to whoever gives me the best stories and author.

thanks

Answer 1

Roald Dahl. He wrote a collection of reeeeaaalllyy good short stories.

Examples: The landlady, Dip in the pool, Man from the South, Pig, Parson's Pleasure...

The list goes on.

Answer 2

Ernest Hemingway or Kate Chopin

PS Roald Dahl was Norwegian and raised in England, you twit.

Answer 3

Try this web site it's got twenty you can pick from. All really good! Hope this helps!!

Answer 4

I like Sherman Alexie- he's a Spokane Indian from the U.S.

His writing is actually funny, sad, and easy to read. Very beautiful too.

He writes on his experiences as an American Indian in contemporary U.S. society. He shines favorable and unfavorable light on native and non-native characters that try to bring us a little closer to his truth.

My favorite short stories from him are:

-What You Will Pawn I Will Redeem

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/04...

-This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona (this short story was later developed into a movie: Smoke Signals)

http://courses.csusm.edu/ltwr325bc/phoen...

-Indian Education (not to be confused with his poem)

www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/.../lib/13232072...

Answer 5

Edgar Allen Poe

Tales

"Berenice"

"The Black Cat"

"The Cask of Amontillado"

"The Fall of the House of Usher"

"The Gold-Bug"

"Hop-Frog"

"Ligeia"

"The Man of the Crowd"

"The Masque of the Red Death"

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

"The Pit and the Pendulum"

"The Purloined Letter"

"The Tell-Tale Heart"

"The Oblong Box"

"The Premature Burial"

"The Oval Portrait"

Answer 6

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, so good! She has written several books/stories but The Lottery is really gripping and hard to stop reading.  

Answer 7

I <3 short stories.

* Ernest Hemingway

A Clean, Well-Lit Place (considered by some to be the best short story ever written)

Ten Indians

The Killers

* O. Henry

The Last Leaf

The Cop and the Anthem

The Gift of the Magi

* Katherine Anne Porter

A Day's Work

The Source

The Fig Tree

* Eudora Welty

Petrified Man

Powerhouse

A Worn Path

Also interesting: Sherwood Anderson, Edna Ferber, Ben Hecht, Ring Lardner

Edit: almost forgot!  Edgar Allan Poe =P

Answer 8

My two favorite collections of short stories are: "Welcome to the Monkey House" by Kurt Vonnegut and "In Our Time" by Ernest Hemingway (although i hate to classify in our time as a collection of short stories as it can be interpreted as a novella of sorts)