Anderson, Sherwood, (1876-1941)
--I'm a Fool, 1927.
Beerbohm, Max, (1872-1956)
--The Happy Hypocrite, 1896, 1924.
Benét, Stephen Vincent, (1989-1943)
--The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1931.
Bierce, Ambrose, (1842-1914)
--The Damned Thing, 1914.
Burke, Thomas, (1886-1945)
--The Chink and the Child, 1945.
Cather, Willa, (1876-1947) Pulitzer Prize, 1923
--Paul's Case, 1905, 1920.
Collier, John, (1901-)
--Back for Christmas, 1939. (The New Yorker, 1939.)
Conrad, Joseph, (1857-1924)
--Youth, 1903.
Davis, Richard Harding, (1864-1916)
--The Bar Sinister, 1902, 1930.
Doyle, A. Conan, (1859-1930)
--The Red-Headed League, 1891. (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1891.)
Faulkner, William, (1897-1962) Nobel Prize, 1949 and Pulitzer Prize, 1955 and 1963
--A Rose for Emily, 1931. (These Thirteen, 1931.)
Ferber, Edna, (1887-1968) Pulitzer Prize, 1925
--Old Man Minick, 1922.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (1896-1940)
--The Rich Boy, 1926.
Forster, E. M., (1879-1970)
--The Celestial Omnibus, 1908. (Albany Review, January, 1908.)
Hardy, Thomas, (1840-1928)
--The Three Strangers, 1898.
Harte, Bret, (1836-1902)
--The Outcasts of Poker Flat, 1870.
Hemingway, Ernest, (1899-1961) Nobel Prize, 1954 and Pulitzer Prize, 1953
--The Killers, 1927. (Men Without Women, 1927.)
Henry, O., (William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910)
--The Gift of the Magi, 1904.
Huxley, Aldous, (1894-)
--The Gioconda Smile, 1922.
Jacobs, W. W., (1863-1943)
--The Monkey's Paw, 1902, 1930. (The Lady of the Barge, 1902.)
Kipling, Rudyard, (1865-1936) Nobel Prize, 1907
--The Man Who Would Be King, 1888.
--The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney, 1891.
Lardner, Ring, (1885-1933)
--Champion, 1924.
London, Jack, (1876-1916)
--To Build a Fire, 1900.
Mansfield, Katherine, (1888-1923)
--The Fly, 1923. (short short)
Maugham, W. Somerset, (1874-1965)
--Rain, 1921.
Parker, Dorothy, (1893-1967)
--Big Blonde, 1939, 1944.
Poe, Edgar Allan, (1809-1849)
--The Murders in the Rue Morgue, 1845.
--The Gold-Bug, 1843.
Porter, Katherine Anne, (1894-1980) Pulitzer Prize, 1966
--Flowering Judas, 1930, 1935.
Saki, (H. H. Munro, 1870-1916)
--Tobermory, 1930.
Steinbeck, John, (1902-1968) Nobel Prize, 1962 and Pulitzer Prize, 1940
--The Leader of the People, 1938. (The Red Pony, 1938.)
Stevenson, Robert L., (1850-1894)
--Markheim, 1887.
--A Lodging for the Night, 1882.
Stockton, Frank R., (1834-1902)
--The Lady or the Tiger? 1882.
Tarkington, Booth, (1869-1946) Pulitzer Prize, 1919 and 1922
--Monsieur Beaucaire, 1900, 1927.
Thurber, James, (1894-1961)
--The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, 1939. (The New Yorker, 1939.)
Twain, Mark, (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910)
--The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, 1865.
Van Dyke, Henry, (1852-1933)
--The Other Wise Man, 1895, 1923.
Wolfe, Thomas, (1900-1938)
--Chickamuaga, 1937.