Authors

J.R. Ackerley	Gyula Krúdy
Henry Adams	Ruth Krauss
Céleste Albaret	Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Dante Alighieri	Camara Laye
Elizabeth von Arnim	Stephen Leacock
William Attaway	Munro Leaf
Erich Auerbach	Gert Ledig
Esther Averill	Richard C. Lewontin
Dorothy Baker	Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
J.A. Baker	Mark Lilla
Russell Baker	Jakov Lind
Honoré de Balzac	Eric Linklater
Max Beerbohm	Dixon & Ruthanne Long
S.N. Behrman	Malcolm Lowry
Eugenia Bell	Susan Lowry
Stephen Benatar	Georg Lukács
Nina Berberova	Gabriel García Márquez
Alexander Berkman	Rose Macaulay
Isaiah Berlin	Norman Mailer
Georges Bernanos	Curzio Malaparte
Nancy Berner	Osip Mandelstam
Rachel Bespaloff	Olivia Manning
Robert Montgomery Bird	J. P. Martin
Claire Huchet Bishop	Harpo Marx
Caroline Blackwood	John Masefield
Nicolas Bouvier	Michael Massing
James Cloyd Bowman	Guy de Maupassant
Malcolm Braly	Daphne du Maurier
Margaret A. Brucia	Mary McCarthy
Sheila Burnford	James McCourt
John Horne Burns	Larry McMurtry
Robert Burton	Henri Michaux
Dino Buzzati	Dana Micucci
Truman Capote	Luke Miner
Girolamo Cardano	Jessica Mitford
Don Carpenter	Nancy Mitford
J. L. Carr	Henry de Montherlant
Joyce Cary	Alberto Moravia
Adolfo Bioy Casares	Bill Moyers
Blaise Cendrars	Alvaro Mutis
Eileen Chang	L.H. Myers
Upamanyu Chatterjee	V.S. Naipaul
Nirad C. Chaudhuri	Andrew J. Nathan
Anton Chekhov	E. Nesbit
Richard Cobb	B. Netanyahu
David Cole	Der Nister
Colette	Darcy O'Brien
John Collier	Fintan O'Toole
Carlo Collodi	Yuri Olesha
Ivy Compton-Burnett	Iona and Peter Opie
Barbara Comyns	Russell Page
Evan S. Connell	Julien Pascal
Julio Cortazar	Boris Pasternak
Benedetta Craveri	Cesare Pavese
Frederick C. Crews	Luigi Pirandello
Harold W. Cruse	Andrey Platonov
Astolphe de Custine	John Pope-Hennessy
Tibor Déry	Jessica Powell
Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire	J.F. Powers
Lorenzo Da Ponte	Thomas Powers
Mark Danner	Christopher Priest
Elizabeth David	Gilles Pudlowski
L. J. Davis	Raymond Queneau
Christopher de Bellaigue	Jonathan Raban
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt	Raymond Radiguet
Vivant Denon	Steve Radlauer
Maria Dermout	Alastair Reid
G.V. Desani	Jean Renoir
Joan Didion	Gregor von Rezzori
Eilís Dillon	Nathaniel Rich
Rosemary Dinnage	Rainer Maria Rilke
Steve Dollar	Tim Robinson
Arthur Conan Doyle	Fr. Rolfe
Elizabeth Drew	David J. Rothman
Charles Duff	Sheila M. Rothman
Elaine Dundy	William Roughead
Ronald Dworkin	Constance Rourke
Freeman Dyson	Ingrid D. Rowland
G.B. Edwards	Malise Ruthven
Beth Elon	Philippe-Paul de Ségur
Euripides	Tayeb Salih
Félix Fénéon	Gershom Scholem
Eleanor Farjeon	Daniel Paul Schreber
Graham Farmelo	James Schuyler
Penelope Farmer	Leonardo Sciascia
J.G. Farrell	John R. Searle
Eliza Fay	Victor Segalen
Kenneth Fearing	Victor Serge
Patrick Leigh Fermor	Marina Seveso
Martin Filler	Shchedrin
M.I. Finley	Georges Simenon
Thomas Flanagan	Charles Simic
Masanobu Fukuoka	May Sinclair
Carlo Emilio Gadda	Peter Singer
Mavis Gallant	Barbara Sleigh
Théophile Gautier	Tess Slesinger
Jean Genet	Vladimir Sorokin
Sigfried Giedion	Christina Stead
Bruce Gilley	Francis Steegmuller
John Glassco	Stendhal
P.V. Glob	George R. Stewart
Rumer Godden	Adalbert Stifter
Emmett Grogan	Theodor Storm
Vasily Grossman	Howard Sturgis
Diana Reid Haig	Italo Svevo
Lucretia P. Hale	Harvey Swados
Oakley Hall	A.J.A. Symons
Patrick Hamilton	Frank Tashlin
Peter Handke	François Thomazeau
Elizabeth Hardwick	Henry David Thoreau
L.P. Hartley	James Thurber
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Tatyana Tolstaya
Sandrine Herman	Sylvia Townsend Warner
Gilbert Highet	Edward John Trelawny
Russell and Lillian Hoban	Lionel Trilling
Janet Hobhouse	Marina Tsvetayeva
Stanley Hoffmann	Ivan Turgenev
Hugo von Hofmannsthal	Jules Vallès
James Hogg	Mark Van Doren
Julia Holmes	Carl Van Vechten
Richard Holmes	Edward Lewis Wallant
Alistair Horne	Robert Walser
Richard Horton	Rex Warner
Geoffrey Household	Aleksander Wat
William Dean Howells	C.V. Wedgwood
Richard Hughes	Simone Weil
Maude Hutchins	Steven Weinberg
Ernst Jünger	H.G. Wells
Henry James	Glenway Wescott
Tove Jansson	Rebecca West
David Jones	Edith Wharton
Joseph Joubert	E.B. White
Maira Kalman	Patrick White
Frigyes Karinthy	T.H. White
Pamela Keech	Ellen Williams
Helen Keller	John Williams
Yashar Kemal	Garry Wills
Murray Kempton	Angus Wilson
Joseph Kerman	Edmund Wilson
David Kidd	Margot and Rudolf Wittkower
Robert Kirk	Geoffrey Wolff
Arun Kolatkar	Francis Wyndham
Dezso Kosztolányi	John Wyndham
Tete-Michel Kpomassie	Stefan Zweig

Introducers

André Aciman	John Lanchester
Joan Acocella	Frances Moore Lappé
Al Alvarez	James Lasdun
Roger Angell	Michelle Latiolais
Karen Armstrong	David Leavitt
John Ashbery	David Lehman
W.H. Auden	Brad Leithauser
Paul Auster	Wendy Lesser
Russell Baker	Jonathan Lethem
Russell Banks	Suzanne Jill Levine
John Banville	Anthony Lewis
Elizabeth Wayland Barber	Margot Livesey
Paul T. Barber	David Lodge
Julian Barnes	Christopher Looby
Andrea Barrett	Glenn Lowry
Anne Barton	John Lukacs
Louis Begley	Alison Lurie
Christopher Benfey	Robert Macfarlane
John Berger	Derek Mahon
Wendell Berry	David Malouf
Ray Bradbury	Hilary Mantel
Hermann Broch	Greil Marcus
Victor Brombert	Adam Mars-Jones
Anita Brookner	Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Peter Brooks	Hisham Matar
Stephen Budiansky	James McCourt
Anthony Burgess	John McGahern
Ian Buruma	Patrick McGrath
Judith Butler	Bill McKibben
A.S. Byatt	Larry McMurtry
Christopher Cahill	Louis Menand
Italo Calvino	Edward Mendelson
John Carey	Daphne Merkin
James Carroll	W.S. Merwin
Terry Castle	Christopher Middleton
Michael Chabon	Czeslaw Milosz
Robert Chandler	Pankaj Mishra
Amit Chaudhuri	Albert Mobilio
Nicholas Christopher	Honor Moore
Catherine Ciepiela	Susanna Moore
John Clute	Jan Morris
Jean Cocteau	Toni Morrison
Billy Collins	Anka Muhlstein
Joseph Connors	Victoria Nelson
Peter Coyote	Geoffrey O'Brien
Stanley Crouch	Molly O'Neill
John Crowley	Joyce Carol Oates
Michael Cunningham	Michael Ondaatje
Rachel Cusk	Grace Paley
Mark Danner	Michael Palmer
Arthur C. Danto	Tim Parks
Kathryn Davis	Douglas Parmée
Lydia Davis	Octavio Paz
Philippe de Rothschild	George Pelecanos
Seamus Deane	Darryl Pinckney
W.S. Di Piero	George Plimpton
Clarissa Dickson Wright	Robert Polito
Joan Didion	Katha Pollitt
Rosemary Dinnage	Katherine A. Powers
Michael Dirda	Christopher Priest
E.L. Doctorow	Francine Prose
Denis Donoghue	Philip Pullman
Geoff Dyer	Michael Putnam
Umberto Eco	Alastair Reid
Dave Eggers	David Remnick
Deborah Eisenberg	Frank Rich
John Elder	Peter Robb
Monroe Engel	Roxana Robinson
Péter Esterházy	Carlin Romano
Jeffrey Eugenides	Charles Rosen
Patrick Leigh Fermor	Arundhati Roy
Penelope Fitzgerald	Mark Rudman
R.W. Flint	Norman Rush
Amanda Foreman	Witold Rybczynski
E.M. Forster	Oliver Sacks
John Fowles	James Sallis
Robin Lane Fox	Luc Sante
George MacDonald Fraser	Orville Schell
P.N. Furbank	Cathleen Schine
Paul Fussell	George Scialabba
Neil Gaiman	A.O. Scott
William H. Gass	Akhil Sharma
Peter Gay	Roger Shattuck
Rumer Godden	Lee Siegel
Francisco Goldman	Charles Simic
Michael Gorra	Jane Smiley
Juan Goytisolo	Ali Smith
Anthony Grafton	Zadie Smith
John Gray	Andrew Solomon
Daniel Handler	Susan Sontag
Elizabeth Hardwick	Ahdaf Soueif
Claire Harman	Bruce Sterling
Seamus Heaney	John R. Stilgoe
Robert L. Herbert	Robert Stone
Christopher Hitchens	Patricia Storace
Charlotte Hobson	Jean Strouse
Michael Hofmann	John Sturrock
Dan Hofstadter	George Szirtes
R.J. Hollingdale	Colm Tóibín
Alan Hollinghurst	Terry Teachout
Richard Holmes	Alexander Theroux
Michael Holroyd	Paul Theroux
A.M. Homes	Judith Thurman
Richard Howard	Tatyana Tolstaya
Fanny Howe	John Updike
Gary Indiana	William T. Vollmann
Ian Jack	John William Ward
P.D. James	Marina Warner
Diane Johnson	William Weaver
Ken Kalfus	Matt Weiland
Bernard Knox	Eliot Weinberger
Wayne Koestenbaum	Rebecca West
Hans Koning	Edmund White
Michael Krüger	Garry Wills
Benjamin Kunkel	Edmund Wilson
Madeleine L'Engle	Simon Winchester
Paul La Farge	Marie Winn
Jhumpa Lahiri	James Wood
Laila Lalami	Barbara Wright

Editors

W.H. Auden	Charles Lee
Robert Baldick	D.B. Wyndham Lewis
Russell Banks	Mark Lilla
Christopher Cahill	Patrick McGrath
Ronald Dworkin	Michael Ondaatje
Barbara Epstein	Douglas Parmée
E.M. Forster	Roxana Robinson
Edwin Frank	A.O. Scott
A.C. Graham	Damion Searls
Rea S. Hederman	Roger Shattuck
Michael Hofmann	Robert B. Silvers
Randall Jarrell	Colm Tóibín
Robert Kahn	D. Thin