What American writer believed that short stories should always be short enough to be read in one sitting? Susan Glaspell Washington Irving Edgar Allan Poe C.S. Lewis

Edgar Allan Poe is the American writer who believed that short stories should always be short enough to be read in one sitting. He articulated this idea in his essay "The Philosophy of Composition," where he emphasized the importance of a unified effect in literary works, which he argued could best be achieved if the work could be consumed in a single sitting.