Author's Guild
The Authors Guild "has been the nation's leading advocate for writers' interests in effective copyright protection, fair contracts and free expression since it was founded as the Authors League of America in 1912. It provides legal assistance and a broad range of web services to its members." [1]
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Directors
Accessed October 2008: [2]
- President: Roy Blount. Jr.
- Vice Presidents: Judy Blume
- Treasurer: Peter Petre
- Secretary: Pat Cummings
- Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Susan Cheever
- Susan Choi
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Michael Crichton
- James Duffy
- Jennifer Egan
- Clarissa Pinkola Estès
- James Gleick
- Oscar Hijuelos
- Daniel Hoffman
- Nicholas Lemann
- David Levering Lewis
- John R. Macarthur
- Stephen Manes
- Michele Mitchell
- Victor S. Navasky
- Douglas Preston
- Roxana Robinson
- Jean Strouse
- Peg Tyre
- Rachel Vail
- Sarah Vowell
- Nicholas Weinstock
- Shay Youngblood
Ex Officio Members Of The Council
- Roger Angell, Robert A.Caro, Anne Edwards, Erica Jong, Robert K. Massie, Herbert Mitgang, Sidney Offit, Mary Pope Osborne, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Nick Taylor, Scott Turow
Advisors To The Council
- Shirley Ann Grau: South
- Frederic Martini: West
- Frederik Pohl: Mid-West
- Paul Aiken, Executive Director
- Jan F. Constantine, General Counsel