Edgar Allan Poe June 28, 1979
William Styron July 19, 1979
Woody Allen August 16, 1979
D. H. Lawrence September 27, 1979
Thomas Merton September 27, 1979
Garry Wills October 11, 1979
Tom Wolfe November 8, 1979
John Updike November 8, 1979
Kurt Vonnegut November 22, 1979
James Baldwin December 6, 1979
Norman Mailer December 6, 1979
John Barth December 20, 1979
Frank O'Hara February 7, 1980
John Steinbeck March 20, 1980
Charlotte Perkins Gilman April 17, 1980
Gay Talese May 29, 1980
D. H. Lawrence May 29, 1980
Pauline Kael August 14, 1980
