Selected by five hundred writers English professors and creative writing teachers from across the country this collection includes only the most highly regarded nonfiction work published since 1970.

Jo Ann Beard Wendell Berry Eula Biss Mary Clearman Blew Charles Bowden Janet Burroway Kelly Grey Carlisle Anne Carson Bernard Cooper Michael W.

Cox Annie Dillard Mark Doty Brian Doyle Tony Earley Anthony Farrington Harrison Candelaria Fletcher Diane Glancy Lucy Grealy William Harrison Robin Hemley Adam Hochschild Jamaica Kincaid Barbara Kingsolver Ted Kooser Sara Levine E.

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Levy Phillip Lopate Barry Lopez Thomas Lynch Lee Martin Rebecca McCLanahan Erin McGraw John McPhee Brenda Miller Dinty W.

Moore Kathleen Norris Naomi Shihab Nye Lia Purpura Richard Rhodes Bill Roorbach David Sedaris Richard Selzer Sue William Silverman Floyd Skloot Lauren Slater Cheryl Strayed Amy Tan Ryan Van Meter David Foster Wallace Joy Williams Product Details Paperback Book 576 pages Publisher Touchstone Book Edited by Lex Williford and Michael Martone Genre Nonfiction Collective ISBN 9781416531746