English 8
Further Information about the Authors
Jorge Luis Borges (and a second link too)
Michelle Cliff (and a second link too)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (and a second link too)
Joyce Carol Oates (and a second link too)
Salman Rushdie (and a second link too)
Other Authors to Consider for Presentations*
* Do note that this is just a small list of contemporary authors. You
are free to choose another author you like or are familiar with, as long as the
publication date of the story is after 1945, and as long as you can provide me a
xerox of the story.
Chinua Achebe
Sherman Alexie
Russell Banks
Anne Beattie
Saul Bellow
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Anthony Burgess
Robert Olen Butler
Truman Capote
Raymond Carver
Sandra Cisneros
Don Delillo
Joan Didion
Andre Dubus
Dave Eggers
Richard Ford
William Gibson
Nadine Gordimer
Graham Greene
Joseph Heller
Mark Helprin
Pam Houston
John Irving
Ken Kesey
Jamaica Kincaid
Barbara Kingsolver
Milan Kundera
Ursula Le Guin
Doris Lessing
Cormac McCarthy
Yukio Mishima
Toni Morrison
Bharati Mukherjee
Alice Munro
Vladimir Nabokov
Tim O'Brien
Flannery O'Connor
Joyce Carol Oates
Cynthia Ozick
Grace Paley
Roy Parvin
Salman Rushdie
Leslie Marmon Silko
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Amy Tan
John Updike
Alice Walker