Best American Essays Editors

Christopher Hitchens

2010 Christopher Hitchens (1949)
2009 Mary Oliver (1935)
2008 Adam Gopnik (1956)
2007 David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)
2006 Lauren Slater (1963)
2005 Susan Orlean (1955)
2004 Louis Menand (1952)
2003 Anne Fadiman (1953)
2002 Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)
2001 Kathleen Norris (1947)
2000 Alan Lightman (1948)

1999 Edward Hoagland (1932)
1998 Cynthia Ozick (1928)
1997 Ian Frazier (1951)
1996 Geoffrey C. Ward (1940)
1995 Jamaica Kincaid (1949)
1994 Tracy Kidder (1945)
1993 Joseph Epstein (1937)
1992 Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
1991 Joyce Carol Oates (1938)
1990 Justin Kaplan (1925)
1989 Geoffrey Wolff (1937)
1988 Annie Dillard (1945)
1987 Gay Talese (1932)
1986 Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007)