President
Susan Sontag
Vice Presidents
Wesley Brown
Hortense Calisher
Frances FitzGerald
Allen Ginsberg
Mary Gordon
Norman Mailer
Treasurer
Lionel Tiger
Secretary
Martha Saxton
Trustees
Dore Ashton
Russell Banks
Anne Bernays
Sara Blackburn
Naomi Bliven
Georges Borchardt
Patricia Bosworth
Joseph Brodsky
Robert Caro
Jerome Charyn
Alice Childress
Amy Clampitt
Joel Conarroe
Jayne Cortez
E.L. Doctorow
Barbara Ehrenreich
Louise Erdrich
Sanford Friedman
Richard Gilman
Peter Glassgold
Louise Gluck
Barbara Goldsmith
Vivian Gornick
John Guare
Daniel Halpern
Michael Harper
Robert Hass
John Hersey
Anne Hollander
John Hollander
Maureen Howard
John Irving
Joyce Johnson
Edmund Keeley
Jamaica Kincaid
Galway Kinnell
Norma Klein
Lucy Komisar
Jane Kramer
Madeleine L’Engle
Eileen Lottman
Robert F. Lucid
Cynthia Macdonald
Pamela McCorduck
Larry McMurtry
Arthur Miller
E. Ethelbert Miller
Mary Morris
Victor Navasky
Gloria Naylor
Grace Paley
Kathrin Perutz
Charles Rembar
Carol Rinzler
Edward Said
Faith Sale
Kirkpatrick Sale
Michael Scammell
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Harvey Shapiro
Susan Richards Shreve
Alix Kates Shulman
Barbara Probst
Robert Stone
Rose Styron
William Styron
Gay Talese
Meredith Tax
Martin Tucker
James Welch
Thomas Whitney
Leon Wieseltier
Tom Wolfe
Hilma Wolitzer
Advisor/Freedom to Write
Floyd Abrams
Executive Director
Karen Kennerly