- A & P Updike, John (Hoyer)
- Abe, Kobo
- Abish, Walter
- Adams, Alice
- African Diasporic Short Fiction
- Agnon, S. Y.
- Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Aldiss, Brian W(ilson)
- Aleichem, Sholom
- Algren, Nelson
- American Naturalism in Short Fiction
- American Renaissance
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Andrić, Ivo
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Appelfeld, Aharon
- Apple, Max
- Araby, James Joyce
- Arnim, Achim von
- Arreola, Juan José
- At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid
- Atwood, Margaret
- Auchincloss, Louis
- Austin
- Aymé, Marcel
- Babylon Revisited F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Ballad of the Sad Café McCullers, Carson
- Ballard, J. G.
- Balzac, Honoré de
