CONTRIBUTORS

John Cheever spent much of his working life at the artists' colony Yaddo. After his death, in 1982, a trove of his letters to Yaddo's Elizabeth Ames was discovered by the present director, Curtis Harmack. A selection of them appears in this issue.

Elizabeth Hardwick, novelist and critic, grew up in Kentucky but has lived for most of her writing career in New York. Her books include Bartleby in Manhattan and Other Essays and the novel Sleepless Nights.

Norman Mailer published his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, in 1948. He explores favorite themes and an old genre in his new novel, Tough Guys Don't Dance, a murder mystery, which Random House will publish in September.

Barbara Norfleet, curator of the Photography Archive at Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, has produced three exhibitions, with books to accompany them. Her own photographs of the well-to-do are included in the archive.

Peter Schjeldahl is a poet and critic whose work appears regularly in Vanity Fair. He wrote the introduction for Cindy Sherman's eponymously titled book of photographs, which Pantheon will publish in June.

Mimi Sheraton, former food critic for New York magazine and the New York Times, is collaborating with Alan King on Is Salami and Eggs Better Than Sex? Author of numerous food books and restaurant guides, she usually dines out incognito.

Wendy Wasserstein wrote her first play, Uncommon Women and Others, as her master's thesis at the Yale School of Drama; it was a success Off Broadway and on public television. Her new hit, Isn't It Romantic, is running at Playwrights Horizons, in New York.

Garry Wills is Henry R. Luce Professor of American Culture and Public Policy at Northwestern University. His books include Nixon Agonistes, Inventing America, and, most recently, Lead Time: A Journalist's Education.