- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 2003.
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Anne Fadiman
Kathleen Norris
- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 2001.
Joyce Carol Oates
"As I am not drawn to art that makes me feel good, comfortable, or at ease," writes Joyce Carol Oates, "so I am not drawn to essays that 'smile,' except in the context of larger, more complex ambitions." Born (1938) in Lockport, New York, Oates graduated from Syracuse University in 1960 (having won Mademoiselle's college fiction award a year earlier) and received a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1961. She published the first of more than two dozen novels, With Shuddering Fall, in 1964, and with the novel them (1969) became the youngest writer ever to receive the National Book Award for fiction. Oates taught in the English department of the University of Windsor, in Ontario, from 1967 to 1978, when she moved to Princeton University, where she is Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor. Besides her novels (some of them written under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith) and many volumes of short stories (for which she won an O. Henry Special Award for Continuing Achievement), Oates has published numerous volumes of poetry and plays (many of which have been produced). Her nonfiction includes such literary criticism as The Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature (1972) and New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature (1974) and several essay collections: Contraries: Essays (1981), The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews (1983), and (Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities (1988). She served as a guest editor of The Best American Essays 1991.
- p. 583, The Best American Essays of the Century.
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JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author most recently of Marya: A Life and Raven's Wing, a collection of short stories. Her essay "On Boxing" will be published in an expanded version, with photographs by John Ranard, in 1987. She teaches at Princeton University and helps edit The Ontario Review.
- p. 284, The Best American Essays 1986.
Gay Talese
- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 1987.
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Edwidge Danticat
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Joseph Brodsky
- p. 283, The Best American Essays 1986.
Donald Barthelme
DONALD BARTHELME has published many collections of short stories, among them Come Back, Dr. Caligari; Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts; City Life; Guilty Pleasures; Sadness; Amateurs; Great Days; and Overnight to Many Distant Cities. He has also written two novels, Snow White and The Dead Father.
- p. 283, The Best American Essays 1986.
Julian Barnes
JULIAN BARNES is the author of Metroland, Before She Met Me, and Flaubert's Parrot. He was recently awarded the 1986 E. M. Forster Award by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His next novel, Staring at the Sun, will be published by Knopf in 1987.
- p. 283, The Best American Essays 1986.
David Brooks
Elizabeth Hardwick
- p. 577, The Best American Essays of the Century.
- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 1986.
Cheryl Strayed
CHERYL STRAYED is the author of Wild, Torch, and Tiny Beautiful Things. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages around the world. Her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Salon, and elsewhere and have been selected for inclusion in The Best American Essays three times. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
- The Best American Essays 2015 (p. 223). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 2013.
Saturday, June 13, 2020
John Jeremiah Sullivan
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JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN, guest editor, is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the southern editor of the Paris Review. He's been the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Pushcart Prize, and an M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award. He is the author of Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son and Pulphead: Essays.- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 2014.
Ariel Levy
- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 2015.
Jonathan Franzen
- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 2016.
Leslie Jamison
LESLIE JAMISON is the author of The Recovering, a critical memoir; two essay collections, The Empathy Exams and Make It Scream, Make It Burn; and a novel, The Gin Closet. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University.
- p. 274, The Best American Essays 2020.
LESLIE JAMISON, guest editor, is the author of The Empathy Exams, a New York Times best-selling essay collection. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is an assistant professor at Columbia University.
- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 2017.
Dayna Tortorici
- p. 212, The Best American Essays 2019.
Jia Tolentino
- p. 212, The Best American Essays 2019.
Gary Taylor
- p. 212, The Best American Essays 2019.
Kai Minosh Pyle
- p. 212, The Best American Essays 2019.
Dawn Lundy Martin
DAWN LUNDY MARTIN is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of four books of poems, including Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry. Her nonfiction can be found in n+I, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Believer, and The Best American Essays 2019. Martin holds the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair in English at the University of Pittsburgh and is the director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.
- The Best American Essays 2021 (p. 204). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- The Best American Essays 2019.
Terese Marie Mailhot
- p. 212, The Best American Essays 2019.
J. Drew Lanham
J. DREW LANHAM's work probes the intersections between nature, race, and identity. His book, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature, was named a John Burroughs Association Book of Uncommon Merit in 2017, and won the Southern Environmental Law Center's Reed Writing Award in 2018 and the Southern Book Prize. His work appears in Orion, Places Journal, Oxford American, and numerous anthologies. He is the poet laureate of Edgefield, South Carolina, and the author of Sparrow Envy: Poems. He is the Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University in South Carolina.
- p. 211, The Best American Essays 2019.
Lili Loofbourow
- p. 211, The Best American Essays 2019.
Elizabeth Kolbert
- p. 211, The Best American Essays 2019.
Walter Johnson
- p. 211, The Best American Essays 2019.
Lacy M. Johnson
LACY M. JOHNSON is a Houston-based professor, curator, and activist, and is the author of the essay collection The Reckonings, the memoir The Other Side— both National Book Critics Circle Award finalists—and the memoir Trespasses. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House, Guernica, and elsewhere. She teaches creative nonfiction at Rice University and is the founding director of the Houston Flood Museum.
- pp. 210-211, The Best American Essays 2019.
Jean Guerrero
- p. 210, The Best American Essays 2019.
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Masha Gessen
- p. 210, The Best American Essays 2019.
Camille T. Dungy
- p. 210, The Best American Essays 2019.
Alexander Chee
- p. 210, The Best American Essays 2019.
Jabari Asim
- p. 210, The Best American Essays 2019.
Mario Alejandro Ariza
- p. 209, The Best American Essays 2019.
Hilton Als
- The Best American Essays 2021 (p. 201). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
HILTON ALS, guest editor, became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1994 and a theater critic in 2002. Previously, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice and an editor at large at Vibe. His first book, The Women, was published in 1996. His most recent book, White Girls, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the winner of the Lambda Literary Award in 2014, discusses various narratives of race and gender. He won the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2017.
- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 2018.
- Contributors’ Notes, The Best American Essays 2015.