Lawrence author Amy Stuber has steadily published her short stories in magazines for years. Literary agents inquired, multiple manuscripts were sent out, but the book deal never came. Now, more than ...

With a writing career spanning three decades, author Bill Gaythwaite was recognized this year with the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for his collection A Place in the World: Stories (Univ. of Pittsburgh ...

Often ranked with Anton Chekhov, John Cheever and a handful of other short story writers, the author achieved stature rare for an art form traditionally placed beneath the novel. By The Associated ...

A short story by Dracula author Bram Stoker was discovered by a pharmacist in Dublin in a newspaper published in 1890. Gibbet Hill is a gruesome tale about three kids that accost a man on the road.

Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author who explored love, life, and loss in short-story collections like Runaway and Dance of the Happy Shades, died Monday evening at her home in Port ...

May 14 (UPI) --Canadian short story author and Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro has died. She was 92. Munro, who had been suffering from dementia for the past dozen years, died Monday in her care home ...

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The writer Alice Munro has died, at the age of 92. The news was confirmed by her publisher, Penguin Random House Canada. Munro was a craftsman, known for her intricately paced short stories that could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Canadian writer was described as a "master of the contemporary story" when receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.