Richard Wright

- p. 589-90, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Edmund Wilson

- p. 589, The Best American Essays of the Century.

E.B. White

E(lwyn) B(rooks) White

- p. 589, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Eudora Welty

- p. 588, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Alice Walker

- p. 588, The Best American Essays of the Century.

John Updike

- p. 587-8, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Mark Twain

- p. 587, The Best American Essays of the Century.