JOAN ACOCELLA has written for The New Yorker since 1992 and became the magazine’s dance critic in 1998. Her books include Mark Morris, Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism, and Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints.
ROGER ANGELL has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1944. He became a fiction editor in 1956 and is now a senior editor and staff writer at the magazine. His books include The Summer Game, Season Ticket, and Let Me Finish.
DONALD BARTHELME (1931–1989) published 128 stories in The New Yorker over twenty-six years. His collection Sixty Stories was a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist in 1982.
VIRGINIA WOODS BELLAMY (1890–1976) contributed poems to The New Yorker in the 1930s and 1940s. Her books include And the Evening and the Morning …
DAVID BEZMOZGIS is the author of the collection Natasha and a novel, The Free World.
BURKHARD BILGER has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2001. He is the author of Noodling for Flatheads, which was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award.
T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE has published nine short-story collections and thirteen novels, including Talk Talk, The Women, and When the Killing’s Done.
MAEVE BRENNAN (1917–1993) joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1949 and for many years wrote the column “The Long-Winded Lady” for the Talk of the Town. She published two volumes of short stories, most of which appeared originally in The New Yorker.
JOHN CHEEVER (1912–1982) sold his first story to The New Yorker in 1935 and was a regular contributor of fiction to the magazine until his death. His books include The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park, and Falconer.
RICHARD COHEN is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. His books include Tough Jews, Sweet and Low, and The Fish That Ate the Whale.
LAUREN COLLINS has worked at The New Yorker since 2003 and is currently a staff writer based in England. Her subjects have included Michelle Obama, the graffiti artist Banksy, and Donatella Versace.
ROALD DAHL (1916–1990) was a novelist, short-story writer, and poet and one of the world’s bestselling children’s authors. His books include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and The Twits.
DAVID DAICHES (1912–2005) was a Scottish literary critic, scholar, and poet. His books include The Novel and the Modern World, Some Late Victorian Attitudes, and A Weekly Scotsman and Other Poems.
RODDY DOYLE is an Irish novelist, dramatist, and screenwriter. His novel The Commitments was made into a successful film of the same name. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
STEPHEN DUNN won a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Different Hours. His other books of poems include Everything Else in the World, Here and Now, and What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995–2009.
IAN FRAZIER has written humor and reported pieces for The New Yorker since 1974, when he published his first piece in The Talk of the Town. His books include Dating Your Mom, Great Plains, On the Rez, and Travels in Siberia.
ALEXANDRA FULLER is the author of four books of nonfiction, including Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness.
MARJORIE GARBER is a professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University and the author of numerous books, including Vested Interests, Dog Love, Shakespeare After All, and Patronizing the Arts.
ANGELICA GIBBS (1908–1955) was a staff writer at The New Yorker for many years. Her short story “The Test,” which originally appeared in the magazine, has been widely anthologized.
MALCOLM GLADWELL joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1996. He is the author of four bestselling books: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw.
ADAM GOPNIK has written for The New Yorker since 1986. He is the recipient of three National Magazine Awards and a George Polk Award for magazine reporting. His books include Paris to the Moon, Through the Children’s Gate, and The Table Comes First.
JEROME GROOPMAN, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1997, is the Recanati Professor of Medicine at Harvard. His books include How Doctors Think and Your Medical Mind, coauthored with Dr. Pamela Hartzband.
DONALD HALL was the United States poet laureate in 2006–2007. His books include Without, White Apples and the Taste of Stone, and The Back Chamber.
KATE JULIAN is a former managing editor of The New Yorker and is currently a senior editor at The Atlantic.
E. J. KAHN, Jr. (1916–1994), began to write for The New Yorker in 1937 and was one of The New Yorker’s most prolific contributors. His subjects ranged from Coca-Cola and the world’s foodstuffs to Frank Sinatra and Eleanor Roosevelt.
ERIC KONIGSBERG is the author of the book Blood Relation. He has contributed Talk of the Town pieces to The New Yorker since 1994 and began writing feature stories for the magazine in 2001.
JONATHAN LETHEM is the author of almost twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Ecstasy of Influence, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.
A. J. LIEBLING (1904–1963) joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1935. During World War II he was a correspondent in Europe and Africa. After the war he wrote the magazine’s “Wayward Press” column for many years. His other subjects included boxing, food, and horse racing.
ELIZABETH MACKLIN is the author of two poetry collections, A Woman Kneeling in the Big City and You’ve Just Been Told, and is the translator of the Basque writer Kirmen Uribe’s Meanwhile Take My Hand.
BEN MCGRATH has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2003. He writes frequently for The Talk of the Town and also writes about sports for the magazine.
REBECCA MEAD joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1997. She has written articles on a wide range of topics, including legalized prostitution, the spring-break business, and God-based diet programs. She is the author of One Perfect Day.
ARTHUR MILLER (1915–2005) was one of the most celebrated American playwrights of the twentieth century. His works include All My Sons, The Crucible, and Death of a Salesman, which won a Pulitzer Prize.
OGDEN NASH (1902–1971) published his first poem in The New Yorker in 1930, and they continued to appear in the magazine for the rest of his life. His books include I’m a Stranger Here Myself, Bed Riddance, and Good Intentions.
SUSAN ORLEAN began contributing articles and Talk of the Town pieces to The New Yorker in 1987 and became a staff writer in 1992. She is the author of The Orchid Thief, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, My Kind of Place, and Rin Tin Tin.
CATHLEEN SCHINE is the author of several novels, including Rameau’s Niece, The Love Letter, She Is Me, The New Yorkers, and The Three Weissmanns of Westport.
ANNE SEXTON (1928–1974) was an American poet. Her books include To Bedlam and Part Way Back, The Awful Rowing Toward God, and Live or Die, which won a Pulitzer Prize.
JIM SHEPARD is a novelist and short story writer. His collection Like You’d Understand, Anyway won the Story Prize and was nominated for the National Book Award. His other books include Project X and You Think That’s Bad.
CHARLES SIMIC is a poet, essayist, and translator and served as the United States poet laureate in 2007–2008. His books include My Noiseless Entourage, That Little Something, and Master of Disguises.
DAVE SMITH is an American poet, novelist, and critic whose books include Hunting Men, The Wick of Memory, Hawks on Wires, and Little Boats, Unsalvaged. He is the co-editor of Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs.
RUTH STONE (1915–2011) was the author of many books of poetry, including In the Dark, Ordinary Words, and What Love Comes To.
MARK STRAND was the United States poet laureate in 1990–1991. His books include Blizzard of One, Man and Camel, and Almost Invisible.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA (1923–2012) was a Polish poet and the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her books include Here, People on a Bridge, and View with a Grain of Sand.
DOROTHEA TANNING (1910–2012) was an American artist and writer. Her books include Between Lives, A Table of Content, and Coming to That.
JAMES TATE is an American poet. His collection Worshipful Company of Fletchers won a National Book Award and his Selected Poems won a Pulitzer Prize.
JAMES THURBER (1894–1961) joined The New Yorker in 1927 as an editor and writer; his idiosyncratic cartoons began to appear there four years later. His books include two children’s classics—The 13 Clocks and The Wonderful O—and an autobiography, My Life and Hard Times.
CALVIN TOMKINS has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1960. His books include The Bride and the Bachelors, Living Well Is the Best Revenge, and Lives of the Artists.
JEFFREY TOOBIN has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1993. His books include The Oath, The Nine, A Vast Conspiracy, The Run of His Life, and Too Close to Call.
GEORGE W. S. TROW (1943–2006) first wrote for The New Yorker in 1966 and co-founded National Lampoon in 1970. He is the author of a novel, The City in the Mist, and a collection of satirical short stories, Bullies.
JOHN UPDIKE (1932–2009) contributed fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism to The New Yorker for half a century. He published twenty-three novels, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit at Rest, seventeen books of short stories, eight collections of poetry, five children’s books, a memoir, and a play.
MONA VAN DUYN (1921–2004) was an American poet. Her books include To See, to Take, which won a National Book Award, and Near Changes, which won a Pulitzer Prize. She was the United States poet laureate in 1992–1993.
STEPHANIE VAUGHN is the author of the short-story collection Sweet Talk. She teaches creative writing at Cornell University.
E. B. WHITE (1899–1985) joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1927. He wrote the children’s classics Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and was awarded an honorary Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for his work as a whole.
CALLAN WINK received his MFA from the University of Wyoming and is completing a novel, Beartooth.
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT (1887–1943) joined The New York Times in 1909 and was a feared and famous drama critic there from 1914 to 1922. A central figure at the Algonquin Round Table in the 1920s, he was one of the first contributors to The New Yorker.
KEVIN YOUNG is the author of several books of poetry, including Most Way Home, For the Confederate Dead, and Ardency.
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