Arthur Inman October 10, 1985
Anne Tyler November 7, 1985
Louis Auchincloss December 19, 1985
D. H. Lawrence January 16, 1986
Sherwood Anderson January 30, 1986
Anthony Hecht February 13, 1986
C. Vann Woodward March 13, 1986
Robert Stone April 10, 1986
Margaret Fuller April 10, 1986
Norman Podhoretz October 9, 1986
Peter Matthiessen October 23, 1986
Arthur Schlesinger November 6, 1986
John Updike December 4, 1986
Marianne Moore December 4, 1986
Stephen King December 18, 1986
Henry Thoreau January 15, 1987
Alice Walker January 29, 1987
Renata Adler February 26, 1987
