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Short Story Author

Biographies

Mrs. Dianne Cline7th grade GRC

Oak Mountain Middle SchoolShelby County Schools

Rudyard Kipling Born: , December 30, 1865 in Mumbai,

India Died: January 18, 1936 in London, England Married: Caroline Balestier (m. 1892–1936) Children: John Kipling, Elsie Kipling, &

Josephine Kipling Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature

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• Kipling wrote poetry, short stories, songs, & novels

• He is most famous for his novels: The Jungle Book and Captain’s Courageous

• His famous short stories are: Rikki-tikki-tavi and Just So Stories

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Ray Bradbury BORN: Aug. 22, 1920

DIED: June 5, 2012 Graduated high school –

did not attend college Wrote essays, novels,

poetry, short stories, plays, and television/movie scripts

Married – 4 daughters & 8 grandchildren

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Famous for his novels: The Martian Chronicles (1950) & Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

The Martian Chronicles – about the attempts of Earth people to conquer & colonize Mars

Fahrenheit 451 – about censorship of books where the written word is forbidden in the future Book burning

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O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) 1862 – 1910. Born in

North Carolina – his father was a doctor

His mother died when he was 3 yrs. old. Raised by grandmother & aunt

Left school at 15 yrs. old & moved to Texas

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He worked odd jobs – worked in drug store, on a ranch, & at a bank

Married in 1882 – 1 daughter

Arrested for stealing money from the bank where he worked & sent to prison

Started writing short stories in prison

Served 3 years in prison & changed his name to O. Henry

The Gift of the Magi

Cynthia Rylant• Born: June 6, 1954• She uses her mother’s maiden

name as her pen name • Her parents divorced when she

was 4 yrs. old• She & her mother lived in West

Virginia with no electricity, no running water, & no automobile

• Married Kevin Dolin in 1977• Worked as a librarian & English

teacher

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• Has written over 100 children’s books• Famous books are: Missing May and

When I Was Young in the Mountains

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Edward D. Hoch• Born: Feb. 22, 1930 in Rochester,

N. Y.• Died: Jan. 17, 2008• He wrote over 950 short stories• He is known for writing detective

fiction as a series of stories in magazines

• He was married to Patricia McMahan & had no children

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• He began writing in the 1950s for the following magazines: Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Double-Action Detective, and The Saint Mystery Magazine

• He also wrote 3 science fiction novels in the 1970s

• He won 8 major mystery writer awards between 1968 - 2001

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