Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM (born April 5, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novels trilogy, "The Englishman's Boy", "The Last Crossing", and "A Good Man" set in the 19th-century American and Canadian West.
 Vanderhaeghe has won three Governor General's Awards for his fiction, one for his short story collection "Man Descending" in 1982, the second for his novel "The Englishman's Boy" in 1996, and the third for his short story collection "Daddy Lenin and Other Stories" in 2015.
Scott Mackay is a Canadian mystery and science fiction author from Toronto, Ontario, where he still lives with his wife and two children.
 He is the award-winning author of eleven novels and over forty short stories.
 His short story, "Last Inning", won the 1999 Arthur Ellis Award for best short mystery fiction.
 Another story, "Reasons Unknown", won the Okanagan Award for Best Literary Short Fiction in early 1999.
 His first Barry Gilbert mystery, "Cold Comfort", was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for best mystery novel, and his science fiction novel, "The Meek", was a finalist for the prestigious U.S. John Campbell Memorial Award for Best SF Novel of 2001.
 His novels have been published in six languages.
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South.
 Her novel "The Optimist's Daughter" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
 Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards including the Order of the South.
 She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America.
 Her house in Jackson, Mississippi has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.
James (Joseph) Hanley (3 September 1897 – 11 November 1985) was a British novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Irish descent.
 He published his first novel "Drift" in 1930.
 The novels and short stories about seamen and their families that he wrote in the 1930s and 1940s included "Boy" (1931), the subject of an obscenity trial.
 Hanley came from a seafaring family and spent two years at sea himself.
 After World War II there was less emphasis on the sea in his works.
 While frequently praised by critics, Hanley's novels did not sell well.
 In the late 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s he wrote plays, mainly for the BBC, for radio and then for television, and also for the theatre.
 He returned to the novel in the 1970s.
 His last novel, "A Kingdom", was published in 1978, when he was eighty.
Rebecca Makkai (born April 20, 1978) is an American novelist and short-story writer.
 Her first novel, "The Borrower", was released in June 2011.
 It was a "Booklist" Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an "O Magazine" selection, and one of "Chicago Magazine's" choices for best fiction of 2011.
 It was translated into seven languages.
 Her short stories have been anthologized in "The Best American Short Stories" 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and as well as in ″The Best American Nonrequired Reading″" 2009 and 2016; she received a 2017 Pushcart Prize and a 2014 NEA fellowship.
 Her fiction has also appeared in "Ploughshares", "Tin House", "The Threepenny Review", "New England Review", and "Shenandoah".
 Her nonfiction has appeared in "Harpers" and on Salon.com and the "New Yorker" website.
 Makkai's stories have also been featured on Public Radio International's "Selected Shorts" and "This American Life."
 Her second novel, "The Hundred-Year House", is set in the Northern suburbs of Chicago, and was published by Viking/Penguin in July 2014, having received starred reviews in "Booklist", "Publishers Weekly" and "Library Journal".
 It won the 2015 Novel of the Year award from the Chicago Writers Association and was named a best book of 2014 by BookPage.
 Her short story collection, "Music for Wartime", was published by Viking in June 2015.
 A starred and featured review in "Publishers Weekly" said, "Though these stories alternate in time between WWII and the present day, they all are set, as described in the story “Exposition,” within “the borders of the human heart”—a terrain that their author maps uncommonly well.”
 "The Kansas City Star" wrote that "if any short story writer can be considered a rock star of the genre, it's Rebecca Makkai."
Carl Nixon (born 1967) is a New Zealand novelist, short story writer and playwright.
 He has written original plays and has adapted Lloyd Jones’ novel The Book of Fame and J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.
 He has won numerous awards for his fiction, including winning and being nominated for key short story competitions .
 Nixon was the Ursula Bethell/Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury in 2007, where he completed his first novel, Rocking Horse Road.
 His two novels „Rocking Horse Road“ and „Settlers Creek“ have been translated into German and published by Weidle Verlag in Bonn, Germany.
 He has also written several plays for children.
 He writes plays, short fiction and novels.
 His theatrical works are largely comedies, and humour is an important element of his more serious - even dark - short fiction.
 He works full-time as a writer.
The Sands of Mars is Arthur C. Clarke's first published science fiction novel.
 While he was already popular as a short story writer and as a magazine contributor, "The Sands of Mars" was also a prelude to Clarke's becoming one of the world's foremost writers of science fiction novels.
 The story was published in 1951, before humans had achieved space flight.
 It is set principally on the planet Mars, which has been settled by humans and is used essentially as a research establishment.
 The story setting is that Mars has been surveyed but not fully explored on the ground.
Delta Wedding is a 1946 Southern fiction novel by Eudora Welty.
 Set in 1923, the novel tells of the experiences of the Fairchilds family during a particularly unexceptional year in the Mississippi Delta.
 The novel's focus on the mundane and social life of the central south, elicited considerable critique from contemporary critics.
Martin Malone is an Irish novelist and short story writer.
 His novel, "The Broken Cedar" (2003), was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was shortlisted for an Irish Fiction Award.
 His first novel, "Us" (2000), won the John B Keane/Sunday Independent Award.
 His story, “The Mango War”, the title story of his 2009 short story collection won the RTÉ Francis MacManus Award in 2004.
 Malone has also won the Killarney International Short Story Prize and has been on two occasions shortlisted for both a Hennessy Award and a PJ O'Connor Award.
John Fante (April 8, 1909 – May 8, 1983) was an Italian-American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.
 He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "Ask the Dust" (1939) about the life of a struggling writer, Arturo Bandini, in Depression-era Los Angeles.
 It is widely considered the great Los Angeles novel and is one in a series of four novels, published between 1938 and 1985, that are now collectively called "The Bandini Quartet".
 A movie of the same name was made in 2006, starring Colin Farrell.
 Fante published five novels, one novella, and a short story collection.
 Additional works, including two novels, two novellas, and two short story collections, were published posthumously.
 His screen credits include, most notably, "Full of Life" (1956), based on his 1952 novel by that name, "Jeanne Eagels" (1957), and the 1962 films "Walk on the Wild Side" and "The Reluctant Saint".

Question: Delta Wedding was a fiction novel by the short story writer who wrote about what subject?
Answer: American South