Harper Lee on the porch of her parents' home in Monroeville, Alabama, in 1961 Don Uhrbrock / Contributor Years before Harper Lee became a household name, literary journals and magazines rejected her ...

A short story by Dracula author Bram Stoker was discovered by a pharmacist in Dublin in a newspaper published in 1890. Gibbet Hill is a gruesome tale about three kids that accost a man on the road.

In 1949, Harper Lee quit law school in Alabama and moved to New York City to pursue a writing career. She lived in cheap apartments, subsisting on peanut butter sandwiches and drafting stories at a ...

I was 15 — a Canadian kid growing up on a diet of my country’s many remarkable authors and a would-be writer myself — when I first read Alice Munro’s “Lives of Girls and Women.” I skimmed that slim ...

Morgan Talty, award-winning author of 'Night at the Living Rez' and 'Fire Exit,' recommends his favorites Morgan Talty is the author of the award-winning story collection 'Night of the Living Rez' and ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with author Steven Millhauser about new collection of short stories, Disruptions, that describe fantastical situations that deal with obsessions, fixations and extremes.

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...