1. 10/16/2015 Short Story Author Biographies Mrs. Dianne Cline 7 th grade GRC Oak Mountain Middle School Shelby County Schools

2. 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 10/16/2015

3. 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 10/16/2015

4. 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

5. 10/16/2015  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

6. 10/16/2015 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

7. 10/16/2015  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

8. 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 10/16/2015

9. Has written over 100 children’s books Famous books are: Missing May and When I Was Young in the Mountains 10/16/2015

10. 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 10/16/2015

11. 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 10/16/2015