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Happy Birthday, June Jordan

Happy Birthday, M. F. K. Fisher

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Happy Birthday, George Orwell

Happy Birthday, Mary McCarthy

Happy Birthday, Randolph Bourne

Happy Birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy Birthday, Peter Matthiessen

In Memoriam: Gloria Anzaldúa

THE BEST AMERICAN SERIES® 2025 Anthology Guest Editors Announced

Happy Birthday, Albert Murray

Jia Tolentino captures our unhinged times

Happy Birthday, Annie Dillard

The Art of the Essay: A Workshop

Celebrate Sarah Aziza's THE HOLLOW HALF

Happy Birthday, Cynthia Ozick

In Memoriam: Ralph Ellison

Happy Birthday, William Hazlitt

Happy Birthday, Washington Irving

Happy Birthday, Agnes Repplier

In Memoriam: Virginia Woolf

Happy Birthday, John McPhee

Happy Birthday, Leslie Marmon Silko

Interview with Essayist Nicole Graev Lipson

Happy Birthday, Ralph Ellison

Happy Birthday, Michel de Montaigne

Happy Birthday, N. Scott Momaday

Happy Birthday, W. E. B. Du Bois

Happy Birthday, Ned Stuckey-French

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Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison

Happy Birthday, Frederick Douglass

Happy Birthday, Joy Williams

Happy Birthday, Charles Lamb

Happy Birthday, Alice Walker

Happy Birthday, Thomas Paine

Happy Birthday, Gertrude Stein

Happy Birthday, Norman Mailer

The Art of the Essay: A Workshop

Happy Birthday, Angela Y. Davis

Happy Birthday, Susan Griffin

Happy Birthday, Virginia Woolf

Happy Birthday, Susan Sontag

Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space

Happy Birthday, Barry Lopez