President
Richard J. Howard

Vice Presidents
Edward Albee
Donald Barthelme
Henry Carlisle
Bernard Malamud
Grace Paley
Kirkpatrick Sale

Treasurer
Arthur A. Cohen

Secretary
Anne Fremantle

Executive Board
Aaron Asher
Nona Balakian
Barbara Bannon
Carol Berge
Louise Bernikow
Ann Birstein
Hortense Calisher
Emile Coupya
Diana Chang
B.J. Chute
Marchette Chute
William Cole
E.L. Doctorow
Rosalyn Drexler
Frances FitzGerald
Thomas Fleming
Allen Ginsberg
Herbert Gold
William Goyen
Francine du Plessix Gray
Talat S. Halman
Daniel Halpern
Elizabeth Hardwick
Nat Hentoff
Frank E.M. Hercules
Julius Isaacs
E.J. Kahn, Jr.
Bel Kaufman
Sue Kaufman
Galway Kinnell
Lucy Komisar
Jerzy Kosinski
Thomas H. Lipscomb
J. Anthony Lukas
John Macrae III
James Marshall
Kenneth McCormick
Terrence McNally
Nancy Meiselas
Arthur Miller
Albert Murray
Victor Navasky
Charles Newman
Sidney Offit
Robert Payne
Michael Roloff
Emma Rothschild
Muriel Rukeyser
Nora Sayre
Grace Schulman
Richard Sennett
Alix Kates Shulman
Charles Simmons
Theodore Solotaroff
Shane Stevens
Gay Talese
Calvin Trillin
Martin Tucker
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Aileen Ward
Victor Weybright
Helen Wolff
Sol Yurick

Executive Secretary
Mel Mendelssohn

Associate Secretary
Barbara Rice Jones