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1. Isaac Bashevis Singer

   Author of Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories V. 1 Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer (Library of America, 149), Isaac Bashevis Singer Stories V.2 Kafka: Kafka to Passions (Library of America), Isaac Bashevis Singer Stories V. 3 : One Night in Brazil to the Death of Methuselah (Library of America)

2. David Halberstam

   Author of Summer of '49, The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship, October 1964

3. Philip Roth

   Author of Philip Roth: Novels and Stories 1959-1962: Goodbye, Columbus & Five Short Stories / Letting Go (Library of America), Philip Roth: Novels 1967-1972: When She Was Good / Portnoy's Complaint / Our Gang / The Breast (Library of America), Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977, The Great American Novel, My Life as a Man, The Professor of Desire (Library of America)

4. Roger Kahn

   Author of The Boys of Summer, Good Enough to Dream, The Era, 1947-1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World

5. Edmund Wilson

   Author of Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930, Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s: The Shores of Light / Axel's Castle / Uncollected Reviews, Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s: The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow, Classics and

6. Ted Widmer

   Author of American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War, American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton (Library of America)

7. Clayborne Carson

   Author of Reporting Civil Rights, Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963 (Library of America), Reporting Civil Rights, Part Two: American Journalism 1963-1973 (Library of America)

8. John Dos Passos

   Author of Novels, 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer (The Library of America), John Dos Passos: Travel Books and Other Writings 1916-1941

9. Theodore Roosevelt Sr.

   Author of Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough Riders/An Autobiography (Library of America), Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches (Library of America)

10. John Hollander

    Author of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2: Herman Melville to Stickney; American Indian Poetry; Folk Songs and Spi

11. Robert Hass

    Author of American Poetry : The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 : Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker, American Poetry : The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 : E.E. Cummings to May Swenson

12. James Agee

    Author of James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction (Library of America), Film Writing and Selected Journalism

13. Saul Bellow

    Author of Novels, 1944-1953: The Dangling Man; The Victim; The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow: Novels 1956-1964: Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog (Library of America)

14. Henry James

    Author of Henry James: Novels 1896-1899: The Other House / The Spoils of Poynton / What Maisie Knew / The Awkward Age (Library of, Henry James: Novels 1901-1902: The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove (Library of America)

15. Bill James

    Author of Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame, Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

16. Peter Guralnick

    Author of Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke

17. Greil Marcus

    Author of Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music, Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, The Dustbin of History

18. Roger Angell

    Author of Late Innings, Game Time: A Baseball Companion

19. James Weldon Johnson

    Author of James Weldon Johnson: Writings

20. Alexander Hamilton

    Author of Writings