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Short Story Authors
YGK These Short Story Authors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author known for his twist endings and collections Cabbages and Kings and The Four Million | O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) |
| Couple in “The Gift of the Magi” who exchange useless Christmas gifts | Jim and Della |
| Character in “The Gift of the Magi” who sells her hair to Madame Sofronie | Della |
| Title character in “The Ransom of Red Chief” who annoys his kidnappers | Ebenezer Dorset’s son |
| Author whose stories feature the semi-autobiographical character Nick Adams | Ernest Hemingway |
| Hemingway story where Nick Adams goes on a fishing trip to Seney, Michigan | Big Two-Hearted River |
| Hemingway story where a woman named Jig considers an unnamed "procedure" at a train station | Hills Like White Elephants |
| Hemingway story that begins with a frozen leopard carcass and features a dying writer named Harry | The Snows of Kilimanjaro |
| Author known for mystery and horror, and her controversial story “The Lottery” | Shirley Jackson |
| Character in “The Lottery” who receives the final black spot and is stoned to death | Tessie Hutchinson |
| Author best known for The Catcher in the Rye and stories featuring the Glass family | J. D. Salinger |
| Salinger story in which Seymour Glass talks to Sybil Carpenter about the title creatures before shooting himself | A Perfect Day for Bananafish |
| Salinger story in which Sergeant X receives a wristwatch from an English orphan named Esmé | For Esmé—with Love and Squalor |
| Author known for detective fiction, science fiction, and horror genres | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Narrator of “The Cask of Amontillado” who buries Fortunato alive in catacombs | Montresor |
| Character in “The Tell-Tale Heart” who murders an old man with a "vulture-eye" | Unnamed narrator |
| Author known for science fiction works including the collection The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury |
| Bradbury story describing an automated empty house that survived a nuclear catastrophe | There Will Come Soft Rains |
| Bradbury story where stepping on a butterfly while time-travel hunting changes the future timeline | A Sound of Thunder |
| French author who frequently used ironic endings, including in “The Necklace” | Guy de Maupassant |
| Character in “The Necklace” who borrows an expensive-looking fake necklace from Madame Forestier and loses it | Mathilde Loisel |
| Prostitute character in “Boule de Suif” ("Ball of Fat") who is judged by her fellow travelers | Boule de Suif |
| Author whose stories are often set in New England, including “The Minister’s Black Veil” | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Minister in “The Minister’s Black Veil” who refuses to remove the title clothing article | Reverend Hopper |
| Hawthorne story featuring a scientist whose daughter Beatrice becomes poisonous | Rappaccini’s Daughter |
| Catholic American author who wrote in the "Southern Gothic" style | Flannery O’Connor |
| Escaped murderer in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” who murders the grandmother's family | The Misfit |
| Character in “Good Country People” who has her prosthetic leg taken by a Bible salesman | Hulga |
| Argentine author known for his philosophical stories in the collection Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Borges story where the universe is made of adjacent hexagonal rooms forming a library | The Library of Babel |
| Borges story where Doctor Yu Tsun shoots Stephen Albert to communicate a coded message | The Garden of Forking Paths |
| Title location in a Borges story that contains all other points in space | The Aleph |
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