United States writer Introduction: Kaja Silverman, Vic Fleming, Charlie Gasparino, Robert Reed, Douglas Turner Ward, Steve Carter

Chapters: Kaja Silverman, Vic Fleming, Charlie Gasparino, Robert Reed, Douglas Turner Ward, Steve Carter, Joseph P. Lash, Donald Vining, Marc Thiessen, James Stevenson, Tiina Nunnally, Joseph A. Walker, M. C. Gardner, Mark Pendergrast, T. M. Wright, Zohra Sarwari, Pseudonymous Bosch, Grant Lewi, Matthew B. Brown, Austryn Wainhouse, Howard Goldblatt, Ingrid Schaffner, H. Bentley Glass, Dora Keen, William H. Keith, Jr., Willie Perdomo, Herbert Keppler, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Ralph Kovel, Jerry Spinelli, Douglas Anthony Cooper, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Kamran Talatoff, Debbie Rodriguez, Leonard Read, Jennifer Baumgardner, Nancy Atherton, Ellen Meloy, Richard Zenith, Michael Dobson, Ronald Steel, Franklin M. Davis, Jr, Amanda Carpenter, Waldo Frank, Louise Adeline Weitzel, Richard E. Kim, Eino Friberg, Peg Bracken, Sara Shepard, Nora Perry, Jenifer Levin, Rockwell Stephens, Judy Blunt, Wells Tower, Sander Hicks, John Francis Bray, Benjamin Ivry, Wendy Ralph, Curtis Hidden Page, Ann M. Martin, Scott Dikkers, Scott Snyder, Darrell Huff, Gerald Morris, Peter Collier, William Montgomery Brown, Paul Wilkes, Joan Acocella, Amy Richards, Diane Carey, Helen Barolini, Lea Bayers Rapp, Lauren Belfer, Ken Murray, Ronyoung Kim, Edward H. Anderson, John Wooley, Gustavus Myers, Leigh Allison Wilson, Raymond L. Garthoff, Robert Lanham, Ray Mungo, Taisha Abelar, James D. Parriott, Eric Durchholz, Mahvish Rukhsana Khan, Sharon Smith, D. J. MacHale, Paul Cantor, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Lawrence Mott, Steven L. Sears, Karin Muller, Michael Herr, Davey Beauchamp, John Buffalo Mailer, Ralph Moody, John Norman Maclean, Jason Buhrmester, Shannyn Moore, Mabel Loomis Todd, Bernard Waters, Fran Lebowitz, Meredith Ann Pierce, Wm. Robert Wright, Barbara "BJ" Gallagher Hateley, Richard P. Rosenthal, Stephen Schlesinger, Douglas A. Anderson, Ilyasah Shabazz, George Sessions Perry, Patrick Porter, Laurence Marks, Devra Davis, Leonard Kip, Paul Kester, Terri Farley, J. Marshall Craig, ...