Authors
Writers featured in New Yorkerest picks
A
- Diane Ackerman(4 picks)
- Joan Acocella(4 picks)
- Franklin P. Adams(1 picks)
- Samuel Hopkins Adams(3 picks)
- Alice Adams(1 picks)
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie(1 picks)
- Renata Adler(7 picks)
- Chris Adrian(2 picks)
- James Agee(1 picks)
- Eqbal Ahmad(1 picks)
- Matthieu Aikins(1 picks)
- Daniel Alarcón(3 picks)
- Jack Alexander(24 picks)
- Caroline Alexander(1 picks)
- André Alexis(1 picks)
- Henry Alford(1 picks)
- Woody Allen(4 picks)
- Danielle Allen(1 picks)
- Hilton Als(18 picks)
- Joseph Alsop(3 picks)
- A. Alvarez(5 picks)
- Grover Amen(1 picks)
- Martin Amis(1 picks)
- Jervis Anderson(9 picks)
- Jon Lee Anderson(20 picks)
- Katharine Andres(2 picks)
- Roger Angell(22 picks)
- Edward Angly(1 picks)
- Donald Antrim(1 picks)
- Anne Applebaum(1 picks)
- Hannah Arendt(5 picks)
- Linda Arking(1 picks)
- Michael J. Arlen(5 picks)
- Elizabeth Armstrong(1 picks)
- Ken Armstrong(1 picks)
- Mary Louise Aswell(1 picks)
- John Atherton(1 picks)
- William Attwood(2 picks)
- Margaret Atwood(2 picks)
- W. H. Auden(1 picks)
- Ken Auletta(16 picks)
- Richard Avedon(1 picks)
- Rachel Aviv(17 picks)
B
- Anthony Bailey(15 picks)
- John Bailey(1 picks)
- John Bainbridge(28 picks)
- Nicholson Baker(3 picks)
- James Baldwin(1 picks)
- Whitney Balliett(38 picks)
- Alex Barasch(1 picks)
- Bill Barich(3 picks)
- Djuna Barnes(1 picks)
- Julian Barnes(1 picks)
- Richard J. Barnet(4 picks)
- Antonio Barolini(1 picks)
- Donald Barthelme(17 picks)
- Frederick Barthelme(3 picks)
- Arthur Bartlett(4 picks)
- Hamilton Basso(6 picks)
- John Batki(1 picks)
- Elif Batuman(2 picks)
- Charles Baxter(1 picks)
- William Bayles(2 picks)
- Ann Beattie(4 picks)
- Emerson Beauchamp(1 picks)
- Hannah Beech(1 picks)
- S. N. Behrman(19 picks)
- Thomas Beller(2 picks)
- Saul Bellow(2 picks)
- Ludwig Bemelmans(2 picks)
- Robert Benchley(3 picks)
- Rich Benjamin(1 picks)
- Sally Benson(3 picks)
- Richard Berczeller(2 picks)
- Meyer Berger(11 picks)
- John Berger(1 picks)
- Ingmar Bergman(1 picks)
- Paul Berman(1 picks)
- Walter Bernstein(9 picks)
- Burton Bernstein(5 picks)
- Jeremy Bernstein(21 picks)
- Gereny Bernstein(1 picks)
- Charles Bethea(1 picks)
- David Bezmozgis(1 picks)
- Burkhard Bilger(12 picks)
- Phyllis Birnbaum(1 picks)
- Elizabeth Bishop(1 picks)
- Tom Bissell(2 picks)
- Susan Black(2 picks)
- Sara Blackburn(1 picks)
- Heidi Blake(2 picks)
- Lurton Blassingame(2 picks)
- Jonathan Blitzer(6 picks)
- Bruce Bliven(3 picks)
- Naomi Bliven(2 picks)
- Amy Bloom(1 picks)
- Ralph Blum(5 picks)
- David Blum(4 picks)
- Sidney Blumenthal(3 picks)
- Sam Boal(1 picks)
- Maxwell Bodenheim(1 picks)
- Louise Bogan(1 picks)
- Shani Boianjiu(1 picks)
- Roberto Bolaño(3 picks)
- Raymond Bonner(5 picks)
- Katherine Boo(2 picks)
- Jorge Luis Borges(3 picks)
- Andy Borowitz(1 picks)
- Melissa del Bosque(1 picks)
- Anthony Bourdain(3 picks)
- Vance Bourjaily(1 picks)
- Katherine Bouton(2 picks)
- Jane Boutwell(1 picks)
- Croswell Bowen(2 picks)
- Richard O. Boyer(21 picks)
- Peter J. Boyer(16 picks)
- T. Coraghessan Boyle(9 picks)
- Robert S. Boynton(1 picks)
- Jacob R. Brackman(1 picks)
- Sarah Braunstein(1 picks)
- Gerald Brenan(1 picks)
- Maeve Brennan(7 picks)
- Bessie Breuer(1 picks)
- John Malcolm Brinnin(1 picks)
- Paul Brodeur(6 picks)
- Harold Brodkey(9 picks)
- Richard Brody(4 picks)
- Henry Bromell(4 picks)
- Louis Bromfield(1 picks)
- John Brooks(21 picks)
- Carlton Brown(2 picks)
- Harry Brown(1 picks)
- Anatole Broyard(1 picks)
- Holly Brubach(1 picks)
- Connie Bruck(10 picks)
- Katharine Brush(1 picks)
- Joseph Bryan(1 picks)
- Joan Juliet Buck(1 picks)
- Tom Buckley(1 picks)
- Bill Buford(2 picks)
- John Burnside(1 picks)
- Noel F. Busch(1 picks)
- Sarah Shun-lien Bynum(1 picks)
- Photography byPlaton(1 picks)
C
- Mary P. Cable(1 picks)
- Ed Caesar(9 picks)
- Morley Callaghan(1 picks)
- Italo Calvino(3 picks)
- Peter Cameron(3 picks)
- Lindsley Cameron(1 picks)
- Peter Canby(1 picks)
- David Cantwell(1 picks)
- Lincoln Caplan(1 picks)
- Truman Capote(6 picks)
- Lynn Caraganis(1 picks)
- Leo Carey(1 picks)
- Ron Carlson(1 picks)
- Carl Carmer(4 picks)
- Robert A. Caro(5 picks)
- Ethna Carroll(1 picks)
- James Carroll(1 picks)
- Rachel Carson(8 picks)
- Anne Carson(1 picks)
- Jay Franklin Carter(1 picks)
- Raymond Carver(3 picks)
- Joyce Cary(1 picks)
- Margaret Harriman Case(1 picks)
- John Casey(1 picks)
- John Cassidy(10 picks)
- Catherine Caufield(1 picks)
- Casey Cep(3 picks)
- Michael Chabon(4 picks)
- Vikram Chandra(1 picks)
- John Cheever(10 picks)
- Adrian Chen(2 picks)
- Alfred Chester(1 picks)
- Samuel Chotzinoff(1 picks)
- Beverly L. Clarke(3 picks)
- Stephanie Clifford(1 picks)
- Robert M. Coates(12 picks)
- Ta-Nehisi Coates(1 picks)
- Jelani Cobb(2 picks)
- Joshua Cohen(1 picks)
- John Colapinto(5 picks)
- Joan Colebrook(2 picks)
- Robert Coles(3 picks)
- Steve Coll(6 picks)
- John Collier(1 picks)
- Patricia Collinge(4 picks)
- Lauren Collins(14 picks)
- Laurie Colwin(2 picks)
- Barry Commoner(7 picks)
- Edward Conlon(1 picks)
- Maureen Connell(1 picks)
- Frank Conroy(1 picks)
- Louise Field Cooper(3 picks)
- Henry S. F. Cooper(12 picks)
- T Cooper(1 picks)
- Jeff Coplon(1 picks)
- Graham Coster(1 picks)
- Gordon Cotler(1 picks)
- Jonathan Cott(2 picks)
- Vicki Covington(1 picks)
- Malcolm Cowley(2 picks)
- Caleb Crain(1 picks)
- Frances Crane(1 picks)
- Vincent Crapanzano(2 picks)
- Michael Crawford(1 picks)
- Arlene Croce(4 picks)
- Stanley Crouch(1 picks)
- Russel Crouse(3 picks)
- Charles Patrick Crow(2 picks)
- Chester T. Crowell(2 picks)
- Harriet Hughes Crowley(1 picks)
- Prudence Crowther(1 picks)
- Will Crutchfield(1 picks)
- Robert Cullen(2 picks)
- Elizabeth Cullinan(2 picks)
- Vinson Cunningham(4 picks)
- Michael Cunningham(1 picks)
- Frank Curtis(1 picks)
- Rachel Cusk(1 picks)
D
- Charles D'Ambrosio(1 picks)
- Roald Dahl(4 picks)
- Fredric Dannen(1 picks)
- Mark Danner(5 picks)
- Edwidge Danticat(1 picks)
- Tracy Daugherty(1 picks)
- Walter Davenport(1 picks)
- Marcia Clark Davenport(2 picks)
- Elmer Davis(2 picks)
- Clarence Day(3 picks)
- Katharine Day(1 picks)
- Dorothy Day(1 picks)
- Sharon DeLano(1 picks)
- Don DeLillo(3 picks)
- Anthony Delius(1 picks)
- Matt Dellinger(2 picks)
- Barbara Demick(2 picks)
- David Denby(3 picks)
- Kiran Desai(1 picks)
- Janet Desaulniers(1 picks)
- Babette Deutsch(1 picks)
- Charles Dickinson(1 picks)
- Joan Didion(5 picks)
- Irene Dische(1 picks)
- E. L. Doctorow(2 picks)
- Homer J. Dodge(1 picks)
- Hildegarde Dolson(1 picks)
- Marguerite Dorian(1 picks)
- Ellen Douglas(1 picks)
- Sergei Dovlatov(1 picks)
- Robert Draper(1 picks)
- Elizabeth Drew(36 picks)
- Nicky Drew(1 picks)
- James Dugan(4 picks)
- Ronnie Dugger(1 picks)
- Charles Duhigg(2 picks)
- Douglas Dunn(1 picks)
- John Gregory Dunne(2 picks)
- Stuart Dybek(1 picks)
- Junot Díaz(3 picks)
E
- Sam Eagan(10 picks)
- Hugh Eakin(1 picks)
- Max Eastman(1 picks)
- Dave Eggers(2 picks)
- Deborah Eisenberg(2 picks)
- Benita Eisler(1 picks)
- Paul Elie(1 picks)
- H. F. Ellis(4 picks)
- Ralph Ellison(1 picks)
- Nathan Englander(1 picks)
- Anne Enright(10 picks)
- Adam Entous(3 picks)
- Edward Jay Epstein(2 picks)
- Louise Erdrich(7 picks)
- Blake Eskin(2 picks)
- John J. Espey(1 picks)
- Jeffrey Eugenides(3 picks)
F
- Clifton Fadiman(2 picks)
- Susan Faludi(2 picks)
- Jiayang Fan(3 picks)
- Nuruddin Farah(1 picks)
- W. E. Farbstein(1 picks)
- Paul La Farge(1 picks)
- Ronan Farrow(2 picks)
- F. A. Fender(1 picks)
- Edna Ferber(1 picks)
- Andrew Ferguson(1 picks)
- Timothy Ferris(1 picks)
- Joshua Ferris(2 picks)
- Jay Fielden(1 picks)
- Dexter Filkins(12 picks)
- William Finnegan(29 picks)
- John Fischer(1 picks)
- Molly Fischer(2 picks)
- Margaret Fishback(1 picks)
- M. F. K. Fisher(3 picks)
- Joseph Fulling Fishman(1 picks)
- Lillian Fishman(1 picks)
- Morrison C. Fitch(1 picks)
- Frances FitzGerald(10 picks)
- J. M. Flagler(6 picks)
- Carol Flake(1 picks)
- Janet Flanner(42 picks)
- Hildegarde Flanner(1 picks)
- Janet Flanner,(1 picks)
- Jonathan Safran Foer(1 picks)
- Tyler Foggatt(1 picks)
- John Forbes(1 picks)
- Corey Ford(3 picks)
- Daniel Ford(8 picks)
- Richard Ford(2 picks)
- Amanda Fortini(1 picks)
- Jon Fosse(1 picks)
- Marshall Frady(3 picks)
- Janet Frame(1 picks)
- Waldo Frank(8 picks)
- Gerold Frank(1 picks)
- Cecile M. Franking(1 picks)
- Nancy Franklin(4 picks)
- Ruth Franklin(1 picks)
- Lucinda Franks(1 picks)
- Kennedy Fraser(5 picks)
- Caroline Fraser(1 picks)
- Michael Frayn(1 picks)
- Ian Frazier(17 picks)
- David Freeman(1 picks)
- Anne Fremantle(2 picks)
- Sasha Frere-Jones(1 picks)
- Tad Friend(9 picks)
- Max Frisch(1 picks)
- Jack Frost(1 picks)
- Polly Frost(3 picks)
G
- Gilbert W. Gabriel(2 picks)
- Mary Gaitskill(1 picks)
- Rivka Galchen(6 picks)
- Mavis Gallant(24 picks)
- Paul Gallico(1 picks)
- Frank Gannon(2 picks)
- Kathy Gannon(1 picks)
- John Rolfe Gardiner(3 picks)
- George White Garland(1 picks)
- Oliver H. P. Garrett(7 picks)
- Tim Gautreaux(1 picks)
- Atul Gawande(9 picks)
- Veronica Geng(9 picks)
- Jeannie Suk Gersen(1 picks)
- Keith Gessen(3 picks)
- Masha Gessen(6 picks)
- Amitav Ghosh(1 picks)
- Wolcott Gibbs(16 picks)
- Angelica Gibbs(6 picks)
- Tony Gibbs(1 picks)
- Morris Gilbert(1 picks)
- David Gilbert(3 picks)
- Brendan Gill(24 picks)
- Penelope Gilliatt(15 picks)
- Mildred Gilman(1 picks)
- Malcolm Gladwell(17 picks)
- Pliny Earle Goddard(1 picks)
- Hyman Goldberg(1 picks)
- Jeffrey Goldberg(5 picks)
- Hannah Goldfield(1 picks)
- Francisco Goldman(1 picks)
- Barbara Goldsmith(1 picks)
- Joseph Gollomb(1 picks)
- Jennifer Gonnerman(9 picks)
- Allegra Goodman(1 picks)
- Richard N. Goodwin(1 picks)
- Dana Goodyear(6 picks)
- Anand Gopal(1 picks)
- Adam Gopnik(48 picks)
- Nadine Gordimer(2 picks)
- Peter Gordon(1 picks)
- James Gorman(1 picks)
- Robert Gottlieb(2 picks)
- Bruce Gould(1 picks)
- Philip Gourevitch(9 picks)
- David Grann(8 picks)
- Robert Graves(1 picks)
- Francine du Plessix Gray(6 picks)
- Paul Edward Gray(1 picks)
- Hannah Green(2 picks)
- Jesse Green(1 picks)
- Ben Greenman(5 picks)
- Garth Greenwell(1 picks)
- Alice Gregory(2 picks)
- William Greider(1 picks)
- Mary Grimm(1 picks)
- Eliza Griswold(2 picks)
- Lauren Groff(2 picks)
- Jerome Groopman(2 picks)
- Ursula K. Le Guin(1 picks)
- Allan Gurganus(1 picks)
- Mel Gussow(4 picks)
H
- Thomas Hackett(1 picks)
- Tessa Hadley(5 picks)
- Patti Hagan(1 picks)
- Eli Hager(1 picks)
- Emily Hahn(24 picks)
- Robert Hale(1 picks)
- Nancy Hale(8 picks)
- Glen Haley(1 picks)
- Jake Halpern(3 picks)
- Philip Hamburger(25 picks)
- L. D. Hamilton(1 picks)
- Ian Hamilton(1 picks)
- Percy Hammond(2 picks)
- Peter Handke(1 picks)
- Bruce Handy(3 picks)
- Helene Hanff(1 picks)
- Suzy Hansen(1 picks)
- Elizabeth Hardwick(1 picks)
- Alvin F. Harlow(1 picks)
- Jonathan Harr(3 picks)
- Margaret Case Harriman(20 picks)
- Richard Harris(11 picks)
- Lis Harris(3 picks)
- Jim Harrison(1 picks)
- Julie Hayden(1 picks)
- Harold T. P. Hayes(1 picks)
- Shirley Hazzard(8 picks)
- Ben Hecht(1 picks)
- Julie Hecht(3 picks)
- Barbara Heggie(2 picks)
- Katherine Heiny(1 picks)
- Zach Helfand(8 picks)
- Zoë Heller(1 picks)
- Nathan Heller(9 picks)
- Geoffrey T. Hellman(86 picks)
- Mark Helprin(2 picks)
- Robert Hemenway(3 picks)
- Aleksandar Hemon(2 picks)
- Robert Henderson(1 picks)
- Nat Hentoff(11 picks)
- John Hersey(21 picks)
- Seymour M. Hersh(15 picks)
- Hendrik Hertzberg(13 picks)
- Peter Hessler(16 picks)
- Paxton Hibben(1 picks)
- Laura Hillenbrand(1 picks)
- Anthony Hiss(3 picks)
- Edward Hoagland(1 picks)
- Adam Hochschild(1 picks)
- Eric Hodgins(2 picks)
- Dan Hofstadter(3 picks)
- Raymond Holden(1 picks)
- Henrietta Fort Holland(1 picks)
- Tom Hollyman(1 picks)
- John Holman(1 picks)
- Jim Holt(1 picks)
- A. M. Homes(1 picks)
- Hubbard Hoover(1 picks)
- James Hoover(1 picks)
- Christopher Hope(1 picks)
- David Brendan Hopes(1 picks)
- Nick Hornby(1 picks)
- Caitlin Horrocks(1 picks)
- Tony Horwitz(2 picks)
- Nora Hoult(1 picks)
- Linda Grace Hoyer(1 picks)
- Hua Hsu(1 picks)
- Albert Hubbell(1 picks)
- Sue Hubbell(2 picks)
- Ann Hulbert(1 picks)
- Morton M. Hunt(8 picks)
- Michael M. Hunt(1 picks)
- Samantha Hunt(1 picks)
- Edward Hutchings(1 picks)
- Matthew Hutson(1 picks)
- Frances Hwang(1 picks)
- Stanley Edgar Hyman(2 picks)
I
J
- Shirley Jackson(11 picks)
- Lauren Michele Jackson(4 picks)
- Greg Jackson(1 picks)
- Dan Jacobson(2 picks)
- Marquis James(1 picks)
- Clive James(1 picks)
- Leslie Jamison(1 picks)
- Tama Janowitz(1 picks)
- Rufus Jarman(1 picks)
- Brooke Jarvis(2 picks)
- Tahar Ben Jelloun(1 picks)
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala(3 picks)
- Denis Johnson(2 picks)
- Joyce Johnson(1 picks)
- Alva Johnston(80 picks)
- Gerald Jonas(4 picks)
- Stanley Jones(1 picks)
- Thom Jones(1 picks)
- Edward P. Jones(2 picks)
- Matthew Josephson(14 picks)
- Niven Busch, Jr.(22 picks)
- E. J. Kahn, Jr.(4 picks)
- Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr.(1 picks)
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.(4 picks)
- John Jurkowski(1 picks)
- Zuzana Justman(1 picks)
K
- Cynthia Kadohata(1 picks)
- Pauline Kael(15 picks)
- E. J. Kahn(102 picks)
- Jennifer Kahn(1 picks)
- Maira Kalman(1 picks)
- Joe Kane(1 picks)
- James Kaplan(3 picks)
- Kanak Kapur(1 picks)
- Mary Karr(1 picks)
- Janet Kauffman(1 picks)
- George S. Kaufman(1 picks)
- Dan Kaufman(1 picks)
- Fred Keefe(1 picks)
- Patrick Radden Keefe(12 picks)
- Garrison Keillor(15 picks)
- Robert F. Kelly(1 picks)
- Michael Kelly(3 picks)
- Thomas Keneally(1 picks)
- Calvin Kentfield(3 picks)
- Raffi Khatchadourian(10 picks)
- Dhruv Khullar(1 picks)
- Tracy Kidder(2 picks)
- Benedict Kiely(5 picks)
- Mary D. Kierstead(1 picks)
- David Hoon Kim(1 picks)
- Emily Kimbrough(1 picks)
- Jamaica Kincaid(6 picks)
- Stephen King(1 picks)
- Eugene Kinkead(19 picks)
- Katharine T. Kinkead(7 picks)
- Gwen Kinkead(3 picks)
- Patrick Kinross(1 picks)
- Michael Kinsley(1 picks)
- David D. Kirkpatrick(3 picks)
- Walter Kirn(1 picks)
- Adam Kirsch(1 picks)
- Paul Kix(1 picks)
- Joe Klein(4 picks)
- Sam Knight(7 picks)
- Arthur Kober(4 picks)
- John Kobler(3 picks)
- Ava Kofman(2 picks)
- Elizabeth Kolbert(16 picks)
- Sheelah Kolhatkar(3 picks)
- Riane Konc(2 picks)
- Hans Koning(1 picks)
- Hans Koningsberger(1 picks)
- George Konrad(1 picks)
- Carolyn Kormann(2 picks)
- David Kortava(1 picks)
- Alex Kotlowitz(2 picks)
- Jonathan Kozol(2 picks)
- Joseph Kraft(3 picks)
- Jane Kramer(11 picks)
- Nicole Krauss(1 picks)
- Arthur Krock(1 picks)
- Milan Kundera(3 picks)
- David Kushner(1 picks)
L
- Eric Lach(1 picks)
- Jhumpa Lahiri(2 picks)
- John Lahr(22 picks)
- John Lanchester(2 picks)
- Anthony Lane(12 picks)
- Daniel Lang(51 picks)
- Daniel Langwell(1 picks)
- Ring Lardner(1 picks)
- David Lardner(1 picks)
- John Lardner(4 picks)
- James Lardner(5 picks)
- Sarah Larson(3 picks)
- Mary Lavin(1 picks)
- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc(1 picks)
- Gypsy Rose Lee(1 picks)
- Alwyn Lee(1 picks)
- C. Y. Lee(1 picks)
- Andrea Lee(3 picks)
- Margaret K. Leech(3 picks)
- Ella Leffland(1 picks)
- Jonah Lehrer(1 picks)
- Richard Leibmann-Smith(1 picks)
- George R. Leighton(1 picks)
- Brad Leithauser(1 picks)
- Stanislaw Lem(2 picks)
- Stanislaw Lem,(2 picks)
- Nicholas Lemann(11 picks)
- Richard Lemon(1 picks)
- Jill Lepore(19 picks)
- Ben Lerner(1 picks)
- Sharon Lerner(1 picks)
- Suzannah Lessard(5 picks)
- Doris Lessing(3 picks)
- Jonathan Lethem(1 picks)
- Primo Levi(1 picks)
- M. B. Levick(1 picks)
- Andrew Levison(1 picks)
- Newman Levy(1 picks)
- Ariel Levy(6 picks)
- Robert Taylor Lewis(4 picks)
- Norman Lewis(3 picks)
- Fiona Lewis(2 picks)
- Gideon Lewis-Kraus(1 picks)
- Yiyun Li(2 picks)
- A. J. Liebling(103 picks)
- Sam Lipsyte(1 picks)
- Robert Littell(1 picks)
- Ryan Lizza(5 picks)
- Katinka Loeser(2 picks)
- Andy Logan(7 picks)
- Ralph Lombreglia(1 picks)
- Lois Long(1 picks)
- David Long(1 picks)
- Edward Longstreet(1 picks)
- Ben Loory(1 picks)
- Russell Lord(4 picks)
- Audre Lorde(1 picks)
- Katie Louchheim(1 picks)
- McNeil Lowry(1 picks)
- Arthur Lubow(2 picks)
- Julian Lucas(2 picks)
- Valeria Luiselli(1 picks)
- John Lukacs(1 picks)
- Michael Luo(2 picks)
- Jack Luria(1 picks)
- Katherine Lyon(1 picks)
M
- M.R. Wemer. M(1 picks)
- Dwight Macdonald(16 picks)
- Larissa MacFarquhar(16 picks)
- Alec MacGillis(1 picks)
- Alec Macgillis(2 picks)
- Kenneth Macgowan(2 picks)
- Ellin Mackay(1 picks)
- Milton Mackay(1 picks)
- Milton MacKaye(17 picks)
- Caitlin Macy(1 picks)
- Norman Mailer(2 picks)
- Janet Malcolm(9 picks)
- Donald Malcolm,(1 picks)
- Thomas Mallon(1 picks)
- Clare Malone(2 picks)
- Russell Maloney(11 picks)
- Jane Mankiewicz(1 picks)
- Andrew Marantz(4 picks)
- Francesca Mari(1 picks)
- Morris Markey(121 picks)
- Peter Marsh(1 picks)
- Huguette Martel(1 picks)
- John S. Martin(1 picks)
- Groucho Marx(1 picks)
- Bobbie Ann Mason(3 picks)
- Robert K. Massie(1 picks)
- Hisham Matar(1 picks)
- Peter Matthiessen(12 picks)
- Alice Mattison(5 picks)
- D. T. Max(7 picks)
- William Maxwell(8 picks)
- Jane Mayer(22 picks)
- Julian Mazor(2 picks)
- Bruce McCall(5 picks)
- Colum McCann(1 picks)
- John McCarten(5 picks)
- Mary McCarthy(8 picks)
- James McConkey(2 picks)
- James McCourt(1 picks)
- Frank McCourt(1 picks)
- Terry McDermott(1 picks)
- Ian McEwan(1 picks)
- Dennis McFarland(1 picks)
- W. O. McGeehan(1 picks)
- Charles McGrath(1 picks)
- Ben McGrath(5 picks)
- Thomas McGuane(4 picks)
- James Kevin McGuinness(1 picks)
- William McGuire(1 picks)
- Jay McInerney(1 picks)
- St. Clair McKelway(33 picks)
- Bill Mckibben(3 picks)
- William McKibben(1 picks)
- Bill McKibben(2 picks)
- Robert McLaughlin(1 picks)
- Henry T. McMullen(1 picks)
- John McNulty(8 picks)
- Faith McNulty(4 picks)
- William Slavens McNutt(1 picks)
- John McPhee(58 picks)
- Rebecca Mead(23 picks)
- David Means(1 picks)
- Thomas Meehan(5 picks)
- Anne Sinclair Mehdevi(1 picks)
- Ved Mehta(20 picks)
- Daniel Menaker(3 picks)
- Louis Menand(20 picks)
- H. L. Mencken(2 picks)
- Daphne Merkin(2 picks)
- H. Merryman(1 picks)
- W. S. Merwin(5 picks)
- Karl E. Meyer(3 picks)
- Leonard Michaels(1 picks)
- Charles Michener(1 picks)
- George Milburn(1 picks)
- Steven Millhauser(3 picks)
- Leo Mirani(1 picks)
- John Mitchell(1 picks)
- Joseph Mitchell(33 picks)
- Herbert Mitgang(2 picks)
- Azadeh Moaveni(1 picks)
- Donald Moffat(1 picks)
- Luke Mogelson(3 picks)
- Rachel Monroe(2 picks)
- John Montague(1 picks)
- Robert Moor(1 picks)
- Lorrie Moore(1 picks)
- Alan Moorehead(10 picks)
- Berry Morgan(1 picks)
- Wright Morris(2 picks)
- Edmund Morris(2 picks)
- Bob Morris(1 picks)
- Chester L. Morrison(2 picks)
- Penelope Mortimer(2 picks)
- Mark Moses(1 picks)
- John C. Mosher(1 picks)
- Howard Moss(3 picks)
- Noel Mostert(1 picks)
- Harry L. Mountzoures(5 picks)
- Daniyal Mueenuddin(2 picks)
- Tom Mueller(1 picks)
- Siddhartha Mukherjee(1 picks)
- Ronald Muller(1 picks)
- Lewis Mumford(3 picks)
- Alice Munro(13 picks)
- James Munves(1 picks)
- Haruki Murakami(7 picks)
- Mark Murphy(18 picks)
- William Murray(2 picks)
- Lou Myers(1 picks)
- Gabriel García Márquez(3 picks)
N
O
- Hugh O'Connor(1 picks)
- Frank O'Connor(5 picks)
- Harvey O'Higgins(1 picks)
- Kevin O'Neill(1 picks)
- Joyce Carol Oates(1 picks)
- Kenzaburo Oe(1 picks)
- Alexis Okeowo(3 picks)
- Sharon Olds(1 picks)
- Jeremy Olshan(1 picks)
- Michael Ondaatje(1 picks)
- Todd Oppenheimer(1 picks)
- Susan Orlean(12 picks)
- Clifford Orr(1 picks)
- Millicent Osborn(1 picks)
- Evan Osnos(14 picks)
- Evan Osnos,(1 picks)
- Russell Owen(2 picks)
- David Owen(7 picks)
- Cynthia Ozick(4 picks)
- Edna O’Brien(8 picks)
- John O’Hara(3 picks)
- Joseph O’neill(1 picks)
P
- Fred Packard(2 picks)
- George Packer(18 picks)
- Tom Paine(1 picks)
- Grace Paley(3 picks)
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