- Including short biographies of authors. This outstanding collection features short stories by a variety of great authors. Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries. Writers include, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, O. Henry, Alphonse Daudet, Frank R. Stockton, Nikolai Gogol, Arthur Machen, Mark Twain and Kathleen Mansfield.