Read Short Biography / Autobiography Stories
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
With his ground-breaking collection of essays, On Moral Fiction, John Gardner turned the literary establishment upside down.
Zora Hurston, an Afro-American writer, rose to literary stardom then quickly fell out of favor with her own contemporaries, finding her final resting place in a pauper’s grave.
Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener is an unfathomable character like none other in American literature.
This is my 1400th story. Some good...some bad. But I wrote every word.
An essay about Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and her literary masterpiece, The Revolt of Mother
Born over a decade before the Civil War, Kate Chopin was one of the premier novelists and short story writers of her day as well as an ardent feminist.
James Baldwin, an American ex-patriate living in France for many years, was one of the seminal black writers of the mid-twentieth century.
Little-known in today’s literary society, John Berryman was one of the greatest confessional poets of the psychedelic sixties.
A few clever words and tidbits of literary wisdom from a master storyteller.