Walker Percy August 14, 1980
Edmund Wilson September 25, 1980
Walter Lippmann September 25, 1980
Walter Lippmann October 9, 1980
Noam Chomsky October 23, 1980
Erica Jong November 6, 1980
James Merrill January 22, 1981
Walt Whitman April 2, 1981
H. L. Mencken June 11, 1981
John Ashbery July 16, 1981
Mary Chesnut August 13, 1981
John Irving November 5, 1981
John Updike November 19, 1981
Robert Stone December 3, 1981
Tom Wolfe December 17, 1981
Donald Barthelme January 21, 1982
Saul Bellow March 4, 1982
John King Fairbank May 13, 1982
