Read Short Biography / Autobiography Stories
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
I was sixty when all the words I had accumulated, started pouring out.
Hallmark doesn't hold a candle to an eight year old with crayons and a Grandma.
Never heard of Gene Stratton-Porter? Born in the later eighteen hundreds, the novelist was as famous in the early 1900s as J.K. Rowling is now.
George Elliot was one of the most memorable Victorian writers, some might say even more so than her contemporary counterpart, Charles Dickens.
A kids eye view of long luscious summer without school.
Harriet Comstock, who would put most contemporary writers to abject shame, was one of the finest novelists of the late eighteen hundreds. If so, then why is she long-forgotten and seldom, if ever, read?
Susan Glaspell (1876 – July 28, 1948) was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress, who founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theatre company.
Of all the inspiring Victorian writers, Thomas Hardy ranks at the top of the list.
In his day William Somerset Maugham, who grew up poor, was the wealthiest writer in England. His novel, Of Human Bondage, was a literary masterpiece as were many of his unforgettable short stories.
No American author has ever duplicated the distinctive ‘voice’ or sensibilities of the Armenian-American short story writer, William Saroyan.
The German author, Hermann Hesse, who was all the rage during the ‘peace, love and groovy’ psychedelic sixties, resides in relative obscurity today. Whatever happened?
A true Story of My Fathers Courage When Faced by the KKK
Ask any self-respecting Frenchman who the best short story writer is and invariably they will answer Guy de Maupassant.