President
Norman Mailer
Vice Presidents
Sara Blackburn
Patricia Bosworth
Richard Gilman
Susan Sontag
Gay Talese
Kurt Vonnegut
Treasurer
Kirkpatrick Sale
Secretary
Naomi Bliven
Trustees
Walter Abish
Edward Albee
Dore Ashton
Barbara Bannon
Donald Barthelme
Anne Bernays
David Bradley
Joseph Brodsky
Wesley Brown
Hortense Calisher
Raymond Carver
Jerome Charyn
B.J. Chute
Arthur A. Cohen
E.L. Doctorow
Frances FitzGerald
Allen Ginsberg
Peter Glassgold
Barbara Goldsmith
Stephen Goodwin
Michael Harper
Robert Hass
Bill Henderson
Jamake Highwater
Richard Howard
John Irving
Stanley Kauffman
Edmund Keeley
Galway Kinnell
Herbert Kohl
Lucy Komisar
Jerzy Kosinski
Cynthia Macdonald
Bernard Malamud
Arthur Miller
N. Scott Momaday
Victor Navasky
Sidney Offit
Grace Paley
Morris Philipson
Robert Phillips
Johanna Reiss
Faith Sale
Grace Shulman
Richard Seaver
Harvey Shapiro
Alix Kates Shulman
Ted Solotaroff
Scott Spencer
Shane Stevens
Robert Stone
Rose Styron
Lionel Tiger
Calvin Trillin
Martin Tucker
Derek Walcott
Thomas Wallace
Aileen Ward
Counsel
Jerry Simon Chasen-Linden & Deutsch
Advisor/Freedom to Write
Floyd Abrams
Executive Director
Karen Kennerly