President
Hortense Calisher
Vice Presidents
Patricia Bosworth
Wesley Brown
Frances FitzGerald
Allen Ginsberg
Norman Mailer
Treasurer
Georges Borchardt
Secretary
Martha Saxton
Trustees
Walter Abish
Dore Ashton
Russell Banks
Donald Barthelme
Anne Bernays
Sara Blackburn
Naomi Bliven
Patricia Bosworth
Joseph Brodsky
Robert Caro
Raymond Carver
Jerome Charyn
B.J. Chute
Joel Conarroe
E.L. Doctorow
Louise Erdrich
Sanford Friedman
Richard Gilman
Peter Glassgold
Barbara Goldsmith
Mary Gordon
John Guare
Michael Harper
Robert Hass
Anne Hollander
Maureen Howard
Richard Howard
John Irving
Stanley Kauffman
Edmund Keeley
Galway Kinnell
Lucy Komisar
Jane Kramer
Eileen Lottman
Cynthia Macdonald
Janet Malcolm
Pamela McCorduck
Arthur Miller
Mary Morris
Victor Navasky
Gloria Naylor
Sidney Offit
Grace Paley
Gregory Rabassa
Johanna Reiss
Charles Rembar
Carol Rinzler
Faith Sale
Kirkpatrick Sale
Michael Scammell
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Susan Richards Shreve
Alix Kates Shulman
Ted Solotaroff
Susan Sontag
Robert Stone
Rose Styron
William Styron
Gay Talese
Lionel Tiger
Martin Tucker
Kurt Vonnegut
James Welch
Thomas Whitney
Hilma Wolitzer
Counsel
Jerry Simon Chase, Esq.
Advisor/Freedom to Write
Floyd Abrams
Executive Director
Karen Kennerly