Home›Short Fiction and Fable›AuthorBrowse ByAuthorThis dimension links a literary work to the person who wrote it. Wikipedia describes Pride and Prejudice as "a novel by English author Jane Austen," written when Austen "was aged 20-21" though not published until years later. Browsing by author gathers every work credited to one writer's hand.FactsAuthorSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1800 1AuthorFilter Results37 entriesGenreAllAdventure Fiction (1)Beast Fable (1)Bildungsroman (1)Children Literature (2)Coming-of-Age Story (1)Fable (3)Fairy Tale (3)Fantasy (2)Frame Story (1)Ghost Story (1)Gothic Fiction (1)Horror Fiction (1)Literary Diary (1)Philosophical Fiction (1)Satire (1)Science Fantasy (1)Short Fiction (18)Southern Gothic (1)The Novel (2)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (1)Composition YearAll-300 (1)750 (1)1063 (1)1668 (1)1812 (2)1835 (1)1837 (1)1839 (1)1841 (1)1842 (2)1843 (3)1844 (1)1853 (1)1864 (1)1865 (1)1872 (1)1881 (1)1883 (1)1884 (1)1892 (1)1894 (1)1898 (1)1899 (1)1905 (1)1906 (1)1912 (1)1914 (1)1915 (1)1918 (1)1919 (1)1922 (2)1927 (2)1930 (1)1941 (1)1943 (1)1944 (1)1945 (1)1947 (1)1948 (1)1950 (1)1952 (1)1957 (1)1977 (1)1982 (1)1988 (1)Original LanguageAllAncient Greek (1)Arabic (1)Danish (1)English (12)French (3)German (4)Greek (1)Italian (1)Japanese (1)Latin (1)Portuguese (2)Romanian (5)Russian (4)Sanskrit (1)Sinitic (2)Spanish (2)Yiddish (2)Country of OriginAllAbbasid Caliphate (1)Argentina (1)Austria-Hungary (1)Brazil (2)China (2)Costa Rica (1)Denmark (1)France (3)Germany (4)Greece (2)India (1)Italy (1)Japan (1)Russia (5)United Kingdom (3)United States (9)AudienceAllAdult (1)Children's (12)General (25)AwardAllBancarella Literary Prize (1)Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame (1)Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1)Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella (2)Setting Country or PlaceAllBeijing (1)Venice (1)Birth YearAll620 BCE (1)1621 (1)1785 (1)1786 (1)1805 (1)1809 (2)1812 (1)1819 (1)1821 (1)1826 (1)1828 (1)1831 (1)1850 (1)1859 (1)1860 (2)1862 (1)1875 (1)1881 (1)1883 (1)1892 (1)1897 (1)1899 (2)1900 (1)1903 (2)1904 (1)1916 (1)1918 (1)1920 (1)1947 (2)1966 (1)Death YearAll564 BCE (1)756 (1)1695 (1)1849 (1)1852 (1)1859 (1)1863 (1)1870 (1)1875 (1)1881 (1)1890 (1)1891 (1)1893 (1)1895 (1)1904 (1)1910 (2)1916 (1)1924 (1)1927 (1)1935 (1)1936 (1)1944 (1)1950 (1)1955 (1)1961 (1)1962 (1)1965 (1)1977 (1)1986 (2)1991 (1)2000 (1)Form Mostly WrittenAllEssay (6)Novel (21)Play (5)Poem (9)Short Story (17)GenderAllFemale (3)Male (29)Major PrizeAllNobel Prize in Literature (4)Pulitzer Prize (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAesopAuthor1 entryAntoine de Saint-ExupéryAuthor1 entryAnton ChekhovAuthor1 entryCarlo CollodiAuthor1 entryCharles DickensAuthor1 entryCharlotte Perkins GilmanAuthor1 entryClarice LispectorAuthor1 entryDimitris LyacosAuthor1 entryDing LingAuthor1 entryEdgar Allan PoeAuthor2 entriesErnest HemingwayAuthor2 entriesFranz KafkaAuthor2 entriesFyodor DostoevskyAuthor1 entryGeorge OrwellAuthor1 entryGuy de MaupassantAuthor1 entryHans Christian AndersenAuthor3 entriesHerman MelvilleAuthor1 entryIbn al-MuqaffaAuthor1 entryIsaac Bashevis SingerAuthor1 entryJacob GrimmAuthor1 entryJean de La FontaineAuthor1 entryJoaquín Gutiérrez MangelAuthor1 entryJorge Luis BorgesAuthor1 entryLeo TolstoyAuthor1 entryLu XunAuthor1 entryNikolai GogolAuthor3 entriesNikolai LeskovAuthor1 entryO. HenryAuthor1 entryPaulo CoelhoAuthor1 entryRyunosuke AkutagawaAuthor2 entriesShirley JacksonAuthor1 entrySholem AleichemAuthor1 entrySomadevaAuthor1 entryStephen KingAuthor1 entryThomas MannAuthor1 entryWilhelm GrimmAuthor1 entryWilliam FaulknerAuthor1 entrySources1. Short Story (Wikipedia)Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Short story, lead section, modern short story development sentenceQuote, Short story, lead section, modern short story development sentenceThe modern short story developed in the early 19th century.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.