| Geoffrey Nunberg, PhD Chair |
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Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and Stanford University |
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| Edwin Newman Chair Emeritus |
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Journalist; lecturer; author |
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| Elie Abel Educator; writer; Professor Emeritus, Stanford University |
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| Shana Alexander Writer |
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| Sherman Alexie Poet; fiction writer |
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| Roger Angell Writer; editor |
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| Natalie Angier Science journalist; recipient, Pulitzer Prize |
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| Kwame Anthony Appiah Chair, The Harvard University Committee on African Studies; Professor of Philosophy and |
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of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University; editor; author |
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| James Atlas Writer; editor |
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| Margaret Atwood Writer |
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| Kathryn H. Au Professor of Education, University of Hawaii |
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| Louis Auchincloss Writer |
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| Sheridan Baker Professor Emeritus of English, University of Michigan |
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| Letitia Baldrige Author; lecturer |
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| Jacques Barzun Writer; educator; author of works on English usage |
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| John Baugh Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University |
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| Carolyn Wilkerson Bell Susan Duval Adams Professor of English, Randolph-Macon Women’s College |
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| Daniel Bell Scholar; Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University; Scholar in Residence, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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| Pierre Berton Canadian author and historian |
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| Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University; Berg Professor of English, New York University; MacArthur Fellow |
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| Roy Blount, Jr. Writer; Contributing Editor, The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Kallia H. Bokser Housing Consultant |
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| The Hon. Julian Bond Formerly Georgia state legislator; Professor, American University and the University of Virginia; lecturer; host, public affairs television program |
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| The Hon. Daniel J. Boorstin Librarian of Congress Emeritus; Historian; recipient, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Medal |
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| Charles P. Boren Newspaper editor (retired) |
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| Marisa Bowe Writer; Editor-in-Chief, Word |
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Barbara Taylor Bradford Writer |
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| The Hon. William W. Bradley Author; formerly U.S. Senator from New Jersey; formerly professional basketball player |
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| Leo Braudy University Professor and Bing Professor of English, University of Southern California |
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| Heywood Hale Broun Writer; actor; television newsperson |
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| Rachel M. Brownstein Professor of English, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York |
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| William F. Buckley, Jr. Writer; Editor-at-Large; broadcaster; publisher |
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| Stephen Budiansky Writer |
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| Gabrielle Burton Writer |
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| Lorene Cary Author |
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| Walter C. Clemens, Jr. Writer; Professor of Political Science, Boston University Associate, Harvard University Center for Science and International Affairs |
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| Pat Conroy Novelist |
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| Claire Kehrwald Cook Editor; author; formerly Editorial Director, Modern Language Association of America |
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| Robin Cook, MD Physician; writer |
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| Alistair Cooke Journalist; broadcaster |
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| Maureen Corrigan Writer; book reviewer; professor |
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| Robert W. Creamer Writer; biographer; formerly Senior Editor, Sports Illustrated |
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| Gene D. Dahmen Attorney; past President, Boston Bar Association |
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| Lois DeBakey Writer; lecturer; consultant; Professor of Scientific Communication, Baylor College of Medicine |
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| Frank Deford Writer and commentator |
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| Vine Deloria, Jr. Professor of Law, Religious Studies, Political Science, and History, University of Colorado |
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| Joan Didion Author |
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| Annie Dillard Writer; recipient, Pulitzer Prize |
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| Mark Doty Poet |
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| Rita Dove Writer; Commonwealth Professor of English, University of Virginia; recipient, Pulitzer Prize; former U.S. Poet Laureate |
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| William K. Durr Professor Emeritus of Education, University of Michigan; past President, International Reading Association |
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| Andrea Dworkin Writer |
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| Esther Dyson President, EDVenture Holdings; Chair, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Member, U.S. National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council |
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| Freeman J. Dyson Writer; Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ |
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| Anne Edwards Biographer; novelist; past President, Authors Guild |
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| Gretel Ehrlich Writer; Guggenheim Fellow |
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| Louise Erdrich Author |
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| Carolly Erickson Historian; writer |
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| James Fallows Writer; national correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Howard Fast Writer |
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| Frances FitzGerald Writer; recipient, Pulitzer Prize |
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| Maria Irene Fornes Playwright |
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| Elizabeth Frank Writer; Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, Bard College; recipient, Pulitzer Prize |
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| Reuven Frank Formerly President, NBC News; formerly television news producer |
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| Ian Frazier Writer |
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| John Kenneth Galbraith Economist; writer; formerly U.S. Ambassador to India; Paul M. Warburg Professor Emeritus of Economics, Harvard University |
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| Sara Garnes Linguist; Director of First Year Composition and Associate Professor of English, Ohio State University |
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| Michael G. Gartner Language columnist; formerly President, NBC News; past President, American Society of Newspaper Editors; past Chairman, Pulitzer Prize Board |
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| Henry Louis Gates, Jr. W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities, Chair, Department of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University |
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| J. Edward Gates Lexicographer; editor; Professor Emeritus of English, Indiana State University |
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| James Gleick Author; columnist |
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| Philip Gourevitch Writer |
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| Francine du Plessix Gray Writer |
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| Georgia M. Green Professor of Linguistics; writer |
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| Stephen Greenblatt The Harry Levin Professor of Literature, Harvard University |
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| Linda Gregerson Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan |
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| Alma Guillermoprieto Writer; staff writer, The New Yorker |
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| Patricia Hampl Writer; Regents’ Professor of English, University of Minnesota |
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| Liane Hansen Radio correspondent |
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| Robert Hass Former U.S. Poet Laureate |
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| The Hon. Mark O. Hatfield Formerly U.S. Senator from Oregon |
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| Mark Helprin Writer; editor; Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute |
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| Oscar Hijuelos Author; recipient, Pulitzer Prize and Rome Prize |
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| Douglas R. Hofstadter Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science; Director, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University; recipient, Pulitzer Prize |
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| Jenny Holzer Artist; writer |
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| Gloria Hom Educator and consultant; Professor of Economics, Mission College; member, California State University Board of Trustees; member, Board of Trustees, Dominican College of San Rafael |
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| Garrett Hongo Writer |
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| Laurence Horn Professor; author |
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| Fanny Howe Poet; novelist |
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| Sue Hubbell Science and nature essayist |
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| The Hon. Shirley M. Hufstedler Attorney; formerly U.S. Secretary of Education; formerly Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
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| Molly Ivins Journalist; columnist; author |
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| Jennifer James Cultural anthropologist; writer |
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| Joyce Johnson Writer; recipient, National Book Critics Circle Award |
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| Erica Jong Poet; novelist; essayist |
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| June M. Jordan Poet; Professor of African American Studies and Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley |
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| Alfred E. Kahn Robert Julius Thorne Professor Emeritus of Economics, Cornell University; formerly Economic Adviser to the President of the United States |
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| Roger Kahn Author; journalist |
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| Wendy Kaminer Writer; Research Fellow, Radcliffe College |
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| Alice Kaplan Professor; writer |
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| Justin Kaplan Writer; recipient, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award |
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| Stanley Kauffmann Film critic for The New Republic |
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| Trudy Kehret-Ward Educator, University of California, Berkeley; writer |
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| Garrison Keillor Author; radio host |
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| Elizabeth T. Kennan, PhD Formerly President, Mount Holyoke College |
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| Tracy Kidder Writer |
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| Jamaica Kincaid Author |
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| Florence King Writer; critic |
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| Maxine Hong Kingston Writer; recipient, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Anisfield-Wolf Race Relations Award, and PEN USA West Award in Fiction |
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| Galway Kinnell Poet; Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing, New York University; recipient, Pulitzer Prize |
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| The Hon. Jeremy K.B. Kinsman Canadian Ambassador to Russia |
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| The Hon. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Diplomat; writer; educator; formerly U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations |
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| Ed Koren Cartoonist/captionist, The New Yorker |
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| Jane Kramer Writer, The New Yorker; author |
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| Maxine Kumin Writer; formerly Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress; recipient, Pulitzer Prize |
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| Robert Kuttner Founder, co-editor, The American Prospect; columnist, Business Week, The Boston Globe |
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| William Least Heat-Moon Author |
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| David Leavitt Novelist; short story writer |
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Wendy Lesser Writer; Editor, The Threepenny Review
Anthony Lewis Columnist, The New York Times |
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| Flora Lewis Columnist |
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| Robert E. Lewis Lexicographer; Professor of English, University of Michigan; Editor in Chief, Middle English Dictionary |
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| Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education, Harvard University |
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| Phillip Lopate Writer; Professor of English, Hofstra University |
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| Lois Lowry Author |
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| Claudine B. Malone Management consultant; formerly Associate Professor, Harvard Business School |
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| William Manchester Writer; Professor of History Emeritus, Wesleyan University; Fellow, Pierson College, Yale University |
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| Robert Manning Writer; editor; formerly Editor in Chief, The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Greil Marcus Historian; essayist; critic |
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| Richard Curry Marius Novelist; biographer; Director of Expository Writing, Harvard University |
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| Suzanne R. Massie Writer; lecturer on Russian history and culture; Fellow, Harvard Russian Research Center |
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| Armistead Maupin Author |
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| Alice E. Mayhew Editorial Director, Simon & Schuster |
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| The Hon. Eugene McCarthy Writer; poet; lecturer; formerly U.S. Senator from Minnesota |
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| Mary McGrory Journalist; columnist; recipient, Pulitzer Prize |
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| Terrence McNally Playwright |
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| Leonard Michaels Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley |
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| Hassan Minor, Jr. Vice President for Government Affairs, Howard University |
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| Lorrie Moore Writer; Professor of English, University of Wisconsin |
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| Lance Morrow Essayist, Time; University Professor, Boston University |
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| The Hon. Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Senator from New York; formerly Professor of Political Science |
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| Bharati Mukherjee Professor; writer; winner, National Book Critics Circle Award |
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| Alice Munro Author |
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| Cullen Murphy Managing Editor, The Atlantic Monthly |
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| The Hon. Maurine Neuberger Formerly U.S. Senator from Oregon; formerly Oregon state legislator |
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| Ambassador Thomas M.T. Niles United States Ambassador to Greece; U.S. Representative to the European Community; formerly U.S. Ambassador to Canada; Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs |
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| Marsha Norman Playwright |
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| Mary Oliver Poet; Professor, Bennington College |
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| Cynthia Ozick Novelist; essayist; member, American Academy of Arts and Letters |
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| Margaret Sayers Peden Translator |
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| Ivars Peterson Mathematics/Physics Editor, Science News |
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| Stephen Pinker Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; writer |
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| Robert Pinsky Poet; translator; U.S. Poet Laureate; Professor of English, Boston University |
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| Robert S. Pirie President and Chief Executive Officer, Rothschild Inc. |
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| Katha Pollitt Writer; Contributing Editor, The Nation |
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| Alvin F. Poussaint, MD Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School |
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| Ellen F. Prince Professor of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania |
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| E. Annie Proulx Novelist |
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| Jane Bryant Quinn Journalist; financial columnist |
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| Tony Randall Actor |
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| William James Raspberry Urban affairs columnist and broadcast commentator; Knight Professor for the Practice of Journalism, Duke University; recipient, Pulitzer Prize |
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| Robert Reich Professor; former U.S. Secretary of Labor; author; political economist |
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| Richard Rhodes Author; recipient, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, and MacArthur Foundation Grant |
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| Frank Rich Writer and critic, The New York Times |
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| Richard Rodriguez Writer |
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| Edward W. Rosenheim Editor; writer; Professor of English Emeritus, University of Chicago |
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| Judith Rossner Novelist |
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| Robert J. Samuelson Columnist, The Washington Post, Newsweek |
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| John Sayles Film director; writer; screenwriter; actor |
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| Antonin Scalia Supreme Court Justice |
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| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Writer; historian; educator; formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States; recipient, Pulitzer Prize |
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| Lloyd Schwartz Professor; poet; music critic |
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| David Sedaris Writer and humorist |
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| Harvey Shapiro Poet; senior editor |
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| Elaine Showalter Professor of English, Princeton University |
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| Leslie Marmon Silko Author |
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| John Simon Drama and film critic; music columnist, The New Leader |
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| Mona Simpson Adjunct professor; novelist |
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| Carlota S. Smith Professor of Linguistics and Director, Center for Cognitive Science, University of Texas |
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| Susan Sontag Writer |
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| Theodore C. Sorensen Attorney; writer; Senior Counsel |
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| Susan Stamberg Radio correspondent |
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| Margaret O’Brien Steinfels Editor, Commonweal |
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| Shane Templeton Foundation Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Nevada, Reno |
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| Paul Theroux Novelist; travel writer |
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| Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Writer |
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| Nina Totenberg Radio and television correspondent |
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| Elizabeth C. Traugott Professor of Linguistics and English, Stanford University |
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| Calvin Trillin Writer; columnist |
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| Anne Tyler Novelist; recipient, Pulitzer Prize |
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| The Hon. Stewart L. Udall Writer; Chairman of the Board, The Archaeological Conservancy, Santa Fe, New Mexico; formerly U.S. Secretary of the Interior and U.S. Representative from Arizona |
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| Helen H. Vendler A. Kingsley Porter University Professor of English, Harvard University |
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| Paula Vogel Professor at Large, Brown University |
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| David Foster Wallace Writer |
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| Douglas Turner Ward Actor; playwright; recipient, Vernon Rice Award and Obie Award |
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| Wendy Wasserstein Playwright |
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| Calvert Watkins Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Harvard University; past President, Linguistic Society of America |
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| Fay Weldon Writer |
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| Eudora Welty Writer |
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| Jacqueline Grennan Wexler Writer; formerly college president |
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| Tom Wicker Author; journalist; newspaper editor |
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| John Edgar Wideman Novelist; writer |
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| Alden S. Wood Lecturer on Editorial Procedures; columnist on language and English usage |
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| Richard A. Young Writer; editor; lecturer; publisher; engineer; Executive Director, National Registry of Environmental Professionals |
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William Zinsser Writer; editor; educator
We regret that the following members of the Usage Panel, who participated in the program for this edition, have died.
Cleveland Amory, Isaac Asimov, Ralph Backlund, John Bainbridge, Alton Blakeslee, Dwight Bolinger, Paul Brooks, Gerald Carson, Claudia Cassidy, Roy H. Copperud, Norman Cousins, Malcolm Cowley, Marshall B. Davidson, Robertson Davies, Michael Dorris, A. Bartlett Giamatti, The Hon. S.I. Hayakawa, Paul Horgan, John K. Hutchens,
William F. Johnston, The Hon. Barbara Jordan, Alfred Kazin, Walter Kerr, Charles Kuralt, J.J. Lamberts, Milton I. Levine, M.D., J. Anthony Lukas, Russell Lynes, David McCord, Kenneth McCormick, James A. Michener, Richard Scott Mitchell, Jessica Mitford, David Ogilvy, C.B.E., Leo Rosten, Berton Roueché, Vermont Royster, Carl Sagan, Robert Saudek, Glenn T. Seaborg, Art Seidenbaum, Jack Smith, Wallace Stegner
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