21st-century American short story writers

The list 21st-century American short story writers includes Tom Hanks, Maya Angelou, Patricia Kennealy, Ben Shattuck and Geoffrey Thorne. The list consists of 1,277 members and 1 sublist.

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Tom Hanks

American actor and film producer (born 1956)

Overview: Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is ...

Date of birth: 9 July 1956

Age: 68

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

Partner: Rita Wilson (Married)

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People with multiple nationality 27T

People with type 2 diabetes 22T

Male actors of English descent 380T
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Maya Angelou

American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)

Overview: Maya Angelou ( ANN-jəl-oh; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of ...

Date of birth: 4 April 1928

Date of death: 28 May 2014

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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American women memoirists 620T

African-American memoirists 19T
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Patricia Kennealy

American writer (1946–2021)

Overview: Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (born Patricia Kennely; March 4, 1946 – July 21, 2021) was an American author and journalist. Her published works include rock criticism, a memoir, and two series of science ...

Date of birth: 4 March 1946

Date of death: 21 July 2021

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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2021 deaths 9,812T

Jim Morrison 28T

Harpur College alumni 25T
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Ben Shattuck

American writer, painter, and art curator

Overview: Ben Shattuck (born 1984) is an American writer, painter, and curator. Born in Massachusetts, he received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a master's degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop ...

Date of birth: 26 March 1984

Age: 40

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

Partner: Jenny Slate (Married)

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21st-century American memoirists 432T

21st-century American male writers 6,836T

American male non-fiction writers 7,757T
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Geoffrey Thorne

American writer

Overview: Geoffrey Thorne (born January 20, 1970) is an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and actor.

Date of birth: 20 January 1970

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Male

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21st-century American male writers 6,175T

American male novelists 5,059T

21st-century American novelists 5,193T
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Jonathan Safran Foer

American novelist

Overview: Jonathan Safran Foer (born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his ...

Date of birth: 21 February 1977

Age: 48

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Georgetown Day School alumni 35T

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Stephen King

American author

Overview: Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies ...

Date of birth: 21 September 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)

Partner: Tabitha King (Married)

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Horror templates 2T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
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Janis Ian

American singer-songwriter (born 1951)

Overview: Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink; April 7, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit "Society's Child (Baby ...

Date of birth: 7 April 1951

Age: 73

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

Partner: Patricia Snyder (Married)

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21st-century American Jews 3,001T

21st-century LGBT people 1,060T

20th-century LGBT people 1,140T
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Arthur Miller

American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)

Overview: Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a ...

Date of birth: 17 October 1915

Date of death: 10 February 2005

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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21st-century American Jews 3,208T

20th-century American Jews 3,239T

Special Tony Award recipients 130T
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Rupert Holmes

British-American composer, singer-songwriter and playwright (born 1947)

Overview: David Goldstein (born February 24, 1947), better known as Rupert Holmes, is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, musician, dramatist and author. He is widely known for the hit singles "Escape ...

Date of birth: 24 February 1947

Age: 78

Nationality: English

Occupation: Soundtrack

Gender: Male

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21st-century English male writers 486T

Nyack High School alumni 11T

Broadway composers and lyricists 196T
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Gore Vidal

American author

Overview: Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, patrician manner, and polished style of ...

Date of birth: 3 October 1925

Date of death: 31 July 2012

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Gore Vidal 4T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
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Nicole Krauss

American novelist

Overview: Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974) is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks Into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have ...

Date of birth: 18 August 1974

Age: 50

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

Partner: Gon Ben Ari (Dating)

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Foer family 4T

Novelists from New York (state) 1,277T

21st-century American women writers 4,233T
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George R.R. Martin

American writer and TV producer (born 1948)

Overview: George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948) also known by the initials G.R.R.M. is an American author, television writer, and television producer. He is best known as ...

Date of birth: 20 September 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: Parris McBride (Married)

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American weird fiction writers 125T

Marist High School (New Jersey) alumni 9T

Television producers from New Jersey 132T
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R.L. Stine

Writer

Overview: Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), sometimes known as Jovial Bob Stine and Eric Affabee, is an American novelist, short story writer, television producer, screenwriter, and executive editor ...

Date of birth: 8 October 1943

Age: 81

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Partner: Jane Waldhorn (Married)

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Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences alumni 132T

People from Greater Columbus, Ohio 7T

Novelists from Ohio 259T
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James Ellroy

American writer (born 1948)

Overview: Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits ...

Date of birth: 16 March 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

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20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T

20th-century American essayists 391T

21st-century American essayists 363T
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Ray Bradbury

American speculative fiction writer

Overview: Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including ...

Date of birth: 22 August 1920

Date of death: 5 June 2012

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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21st-century American male writers 3,233T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T

Screenwriters from Illinois 340T
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

American author (1922–2007)

Overview: Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer and humorist known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published fourteen novels ...

Date of birth: 11 November 1922

Date of death: 11 April 2007

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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American critics of Christianity 72T

21st-century American male artists 897T

20th-century American male artists 3,686T
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Jhumpa Lahiri

American author

Overview: Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (born July 11, 1967) is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian.

Date of birth: 11 July 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

Partner: Alberto Vourvoulias (Married)

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Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni 158T

American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

American short story writers of Indian descent 3T
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Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

American writer

Overview: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is an author and editor of 20 books. She co-founded PAWWA or Philippine American Women Writers and Artists; and also founded Philippine American Literary House. Brainard's works ...

Date of birth: 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Filipino women short story writers 7T

21st-century American women writers 4,233T

20th-century American women writers 5,363T
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Elizabeth Gilbert

American journalist and author (born 1969)

Overview: Elizabeth Gilbert (born July 18, 1969) is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which has sold over 12 million copies and has been translated into over ...

Date of birth: 18 July 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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American LGBT novelists 428T

21st-century American memoirists 352T

American women travel writers 106T