John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003)

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1. John Gregory Dunne

   Author of True Confessions, The Studio, The Red White and Blue

2. John Updike

   Author of The Best American Short Stories of the Century, Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism

3. Joseph Epstein

   Author of The Best American Essays 1993, Narcissus Leaves the Pool, A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays

4. Joyce Carol Oates

   Author of You Must Remember This, Mysteries of Winterthurn, The Best American Essays 1991

5. Michael Dirda

   Author of Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education, Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments, An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland

6. Gore Vidal

   Author of Empire, Palimpsest: A Memoir, Washington, D.C.

7. Joan Didion

   Author of Play It As It Lays, The White Album, A Book of Common Prayer

8. Robert Stone

   Author of Damascus Gate, Outerbridge Reach, A Flag for Sunrise

9. William Goldman

   Author of Adventures in the Screen Trade, Which Lie Did I Tell?; More Adventures in the Screen Trade

10. Louis Auchincloss

    Author of The Rector of Justin, The Embezzler, The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss

11. Norman Mailer

    Author of Ancient Evenings, Tough Guys Don't Dance, The Deer Park

12. Annie Dillard

    Author of Living by Fiction, The Best American Essays 1988

13. T. C. Boyle

    Author of Drop City, The Inner Circle, Riven Rock

14. Paul Theroux

    Author of The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific, Pillars of Hercules, O-Zone

15. Phillip Lopate

    Author of The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present, Against Joie de Vivre

16. David Thomson

    Author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles, A Biographical Dictionary of Film

17. Walter Mosley

    Author of A Red Death, White Butterfly, Bad Boy Brawly Brown

18. Edmund Wilson

    Author of To the Finland Station, Memoirs of Hecate County, Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York

19. Susan Sontag

    Author of The Volcano Lover, The Best American Essays 1992

20. Geoffrey Wolff

    Author of The Best American Essays 1989