The short story authors I have read and enjoyed - among many are John Grisham, Robert Penn Warren, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Alice Walker, Somerset Maughan, Kipling, Conrad, Dahl, Wodehouse, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Maupassant, Washington Irving, Alexander McCall Smith, Anthony Trollope - and I could go on and on but nowhere near this list would I put Olive Kitteridge.