Rabih Alameddine

RABIH ALAMEDDINE is the author of a story collection, The Perv, and the novels Koolaids; I, the Divine; The Hakawati; An Unnecessary Woman (a finalist for the National Book Award 2014), and The Angel of History. His novel The Wrong End of the Telescope is forthcoming in 2021.

- p. 273, The Best American Essays 2020.

RABIH ALAMEDDINE is the author of I, the Divine, The Hakawati, Koolaids, The Perv, An Unnecessary Woman, and The Angel of History. An Unnecessary Woman was a finalist for the National Book Award 2014 and the winner of the prestigious Prix Femina Étranger. His most recent novel, The Angel of History, won the Lambda Literary Award.

- p. 209, The Best American Essays 2019.

Robert Atwan

ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide.

- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 2020.

ROBERT ATWAN, the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986, has published on a wide variety of subjects, from American advertising and early photography to ancient divination and Shakespeare. His criticism, essays, humor, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous periodicals nationwide.

- Back Covers, The Best American Essays 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.

Robert Atwan has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide.

- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 2003.

Robert Atwan has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986.

- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 2001, 2004.

ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide. He has recently edited Chapters into Verse, a collection of poetry inspired by the Bible, and Divine Inspiration, a volume of world poetry on the Gospels.

- Back Cover, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Series editor Robert Atwan has edited many anthologies, including the recent Harper American Literature.

- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 1987.

Robert Atwan, who has edited many anthologies, is one of the editors of Harper American Literature. His reviews of poetry and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and other periodicals; and he has written critical essays on literature, psychology, and pop culture.

- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 1986.

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Rebecca Solnit

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REBECCA SOLNIT, guest editor, is the author of more than twenty books, including A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Men Explain Things to Me, and A Paradise Built in Hell; a product from kindergarten to graduate school of the California public education system; a board member of Oil Change International; and this year a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize.

- Back Cover, The Best American Essays 2019.

Writer, historian, and activist REBECCA SOLNIT is the author of eighteen books about environment, landscape, community, art, politics, hope, and feminism, including two atlases, of San Francisco in 2010 and New Orleans in 2013, Men Explain Things to Me, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist for Harper’s Magazine.

- The Best American Essays 2015 (p. 223). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition. 

John Barth

JOHN BARTH is the author of The Floating Opera; The End of the Road; The Sot-Weed Factor; Giles Goat-Boy; Letters; Sabbatical: A Romance; Lost in the Fun House, a series of short fictions; The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction; and Chimera, a volume of novellas that won the National Book Award for fiction in 1973. He was elected in 1974 to both the National Book Award for fiction in 1973. He was elected in 1974 to both the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is currently the Alumni Centennial Professor of English and Creative Writings at Johns Hopkins University. His latest book is The Tidewater Tales: A Novel.

- The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 315). Ticknor & Fields.

The Best American Crime Writing

The Best American Crime Writing is a discontinued series from HarperCollins, the world's second largest publisher - although the series' name sounds as if it's one of The Best American Series by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, but it is not (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is the 8^th largest publisher according to 2016 data). The series follows the same selection format as the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's series, with series editors and guest editor in each volume. The series editors for The Best American Crime Writing were: Otto Penzler & Thomas H. Cook.

The series lasted 9 years, with changing its name in 2007 to The Best American Crime Reporting. But, sadly, the series lasted only 3 more years after its name change and discontinued with its last volume in 2010. The series is interesting because it features collection of real crime stories, so it's worth collecting for people who want a good record of notable crimes happened from 2002 to 2010.

Volume	Available Versions
2002	Hardcover, Paperback
2003	Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle
2004	Hardcover, Paperback
2005	Paperback, Kindle
2006	Paperback, Kindle
2007 Name Changes to: The Best American Crime Reporting	Paperback, Kindle
2008	Paperback, Kindle
2009	Paperback, Kindle
2010	Paperback, Kindle

The Best American Series

Ongoing the Best American Series

Series Title	First Issue
The Best American Short Stories	1915
The Best American Essays	1986
The Best American Sports Writing	1991
The Best American Mystery Stories	1997
The Best American Science and Nature Writing	2000
The Best American Travel Writing	2000
The Best American Comics	2006
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy	2015

Discontinued the Best American Series

Series Title	Published Dates
The Best American Recipes	1999-2005
The Best American Crime Writing	2002-2010
The Best American Nonrequired Reading	2002-2019
The Best American Spiritual Writing	2004-2008
The Best American Infographics	2013-2016

Hardcover or Paperback?

For someone with extreme OCD with collecting books, a publisher's decision to make a hardcover version matters. And what matters even more is the publisher's decision to keep on making hardcover versions. But, sadly, for The Best American Essays Series, the publisher failed to stand strong its decision to publish hardcover versions. It can really break the series lover's heart - so take that to heart Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

And this post is dedicated to those who are collecting this collection, so you can stop going crazy trying to find the hardcover version of The Best American Essays 2009 and beyond. Enjoy.

Volume	Available Versions
1986	Hardcover, Paperback
1987	Hardcover, Paperback
1988	Hardcover, Paperback
1989	Hardcover, Paperback
1990	Hardcover, Paperback
1991	Hardcover, Paperback
1992	Hardcover, Paperback
1993	Hardcover, Paperback
1994	Hardcover, Paperback
1995	Hardcover, Paperback
1996	Hardcover, Paperback
1997	Hardcover, Paperback
1998	Hardcover, Paperback
1999	Hardcover, Paperback
2000	Hardcover, Paperback
The Best American Essays of the Century	Hardcover, Paperback
2001	Hardcover, Paperback
2002	Hardcover, Paperback
2003	Hardcover, Paperback
2004	Hardcover, Paperback
2005	Hardcover, Paperback
2006	Hardcover, Paperback
2007	Hardcover, Paperback
2008	Hardcover, Paperback
2009	Paperback
2010	Paperback
2011	Paperback, Kindle
2012	Paperback, Kindle
2013	Paperback, Kindle
2014	Paperback, Kindle
2015	Paperback, Kindle
2016	Paperback, Kindle
2017	Paperback, Kindle
2018	Paperback, Kindle
2019	Paperback, Kindle
2020	Paperback, Kindle
2021	Paperback, Kindle
2022	Paperback, Audiobook