Adam Gopnik

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1. Peter Mayle

   Author of A Year in Provence, Encore Provence, French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew

2. Frances Mayes

   Author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany, The Best American Travel Writing 2002

3. Adam Gopnik

   Author of Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York, Angels and Ages

4. Ruth Reichl

   Author of Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table

5. Pico Iyer

   Author of The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of The World, The Best American Travel Writing 2004

6. Anne Fadiman

   Author of Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Rereadings, The Best American Essays 2003

7. Jamaica Kincaid

   Author of The Best American Travel Writing 2005, The Best American Essays 1995

8. Ian Frazier

   Author of Travels in Siberia, The Best American Travel Writing 2003, The Best American Essays 1997

9. The American Society of Magazine Editors

   Author of The Best American Magazine Writing 2003, The Best American Magazine Writing 2002, The Best American Magazine Writing 2000

10. Sarah Turnbull

    Author of Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris

11. Paul Theroux

    Author of Pillars of Hercules, Hotel Honolulu: A Novel, Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings

12. Susan Orlean

    Author of The Best American Essays 2005, My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere, The Best American Travel Writing 2007

13. Edward Eager

    Author of Half Magic, Magic by the Lake, Knight's Castle

14. 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)

15. Edmund White

    Author of The Flâneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris

16. Thad Carhart

    Author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier

17. Alice Steinbach

    Author of Without Reservations

18. 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

19. Joyce Carol Oates

    Author of The Best American Essays of the Century, The Best American Essays 1991

20. Louis Menand

    Author of The Best American Essays 2004