Washington Irving is usually considered as the father of the American Short story. Washington Irving was among the first Americans to win fame for their best telling short story tales.
There is a story called "Appetizer" by Robert H. Abel
the theme was that was conflict between father andson.
Credit for the invention of the short story is usually divided between:Edgar Allan Poe in America'Golgo' Nikolai Vasilievich in Russia (Ukraine)
R.K. Narayan
The beginning of a story is called the exposition - it's when you are introduced to the characters and the setting and the conflict of the story.
Washington Irving is usually considered as the father of the American Short story. Washington Irving was among the first Americans to win fame for their best telling short story tales.
Edgar Allan Poe.
Mark Twain
There are several opinions as to the who is the father of the short story. Washington Irving was the American writer to make use of this form in his book called The Sketch Book. Others would say that Nathaniel Hawthorne (Twice Told Tales) and or Edgar Allan Poe would be called that since they fairly perfected the form even before the literary term 'short story' became generally accepted to describe these short prose fiction works.
He mainly wrote in the Romanticism time period, but many people believed he also wrote in the moderism time period as well.
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A Man Called Horse - short story - was created in 1950.
Washington Irving was one of the first writers to document early American life in both essays and fiction. He is called the Father of the American Short Story and is best known for creating legendary characters like Rip van Winkle and Ichabod Crane.
it was in a collection of the Best American Short Stories
I do believe that there is a book of short stories called Animal Babies with a story called Spud.
The independent film Smoke Signals (1998) was based on a short story called "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona." Sherman Alexie wrote the short story and the screenplay for the movie.
Raymond Carver was an American poet and short story writer. He is stated to have been a major force in revitalizing American short story in literature in the 1980's.