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
Robert Caro
Raymond Carver
Jerome Charyn
B.J. Chute
Arthur A. Cohen
E.L. Doctorow
Louise Erdrich
Frances FitzGerald
Sanford Friedman
Allen Ginsberg
Peter Glassgold
Barbara Goldsmith
Stephen Goodwin
Robert Hass
Bill Henderson
Jamake Highwater
Anne Hollander
Richard Howard
John Irving
Stanley Kauffman
Edmund Keeley
Galway Kinnell
Lucy Komisar
Jane Kramer
Cynthia Macdonald
Bernard Malamud
Arthur Miller
Mary Morris
Victor Navasky
Sidney Offit
Grace Paley
Richard Poirier
Gregory Rabassa
Johanna Reiss
Faith Sale
Richard Seaver
Ntozake Shange
Harvey Shapiro
Ted Solotaroff
Robert Stone
Rose Styron
William Styron
Lionel Tiger
Calvin Trillin
Martin Tucker
Thomas Wallace
Hilma Wolitzer
Counsel
Jerry Simon Chase, Esq.
Advisor/Freedom to Write
Floyd Abrams
Executive Director
Karen Kennerly