Writers have always had the ... extend beyond novels to essays, poetry and short stories. His books can be found at Penguin Random House. Famous quote: “If you don’t like someone’s story ...

Hemingway had dashed off a list of 14 books for an aspiring writer who had hitchhiked to Florida to meet him. It included a few of the same books above, plus two short stories by Stephen Crane.

“Long ago, the Earth was peopled only by women,” writes the Japanese author Izumi Suzuki near the start of her most famous short story ... them with her story-writing.

In her short life she became our most famous short story writer, acquiring an international reputation for her stories, ...