Richard Wright

- p. 589-90, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Edmund Wilson

- p. 589, The Best American Essays of the Century.

E.B. White

E(lwyn) B(rooks) White

- p. 589, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Eudora Welty

- p. 588, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Alice Walker

- p. 588, The Best American Essays of the Century.

John Updike

- p. 587-8, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Mark Twain

- p. 587, The Best American Essays of the Century.

James Thurber

- p. 587, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Lewis Thomas

- p. 586-7, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Gertrude Stein

- p. 586, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Richard Rodriguez

- p. 585, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Adrienne Rich

- p. 585, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Katherine Anne Porter

- p. 584-5, The Best American Essays of the Century.

S.J. Perelman

S(idney) J(oseph) Perelman

- p. 584, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Vladimir Nabokov

- p. 583, The Best American Essays of the Century.

John Muir

- p. 582-3, The Best American Essays of the Century.

N. Scott Momaday

N(avarre) Scott Momaday

- p. 582, The Best American Essays of the Century.

H.L. Mencken

H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken

- p. 582, The Best American Essays of the Century.

John McPhee

- p. 581-2, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Mary McCarthy

Mary (Therese) McCarthy

- p. 581, The Best American Essays of the Century.

William Manchester

- p. 580-1, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Maxine Hong Kingston

- p. 580, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

- p. 580, The Best American Essays of the Century.

William James

- p. 579-80, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Zora Neale Hurston

- p. 579, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Langston Hughes

(James) Langston Hughes

- p. 578-9, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Michael Herr

- p. 578, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Ernest Hemingway

- p. 577-8, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Robert Frost

Robert (Lee) Frost

- p. 575-6, The Best American Essays of the Century.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald

- p. 575, The Best American Essays of the Century.

T.S. Eliot

T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot

- p. 575, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Loren Eiseley

- p. 574-5, The Best American Essays of the Century.

W.E.B. Du Bois

W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt) Du Bois

- p. 573, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Joan Didion

- p. 572-3, The Best American Essays of the Century.

John Jay Chapman

- p. 572, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Rachel Carson

- p. 572, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Randolph Bourne

- p. 571, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Saul Bellow

- p. 571, The Best American Essays of the Century.

James Baldwin

- p. 570-1, The Best American Essays of the Century.

Maya Angelou

- p. 570, The Best American Essays of the Century.

James Agee

- p. 570, The Best American Essays of the Century.