President
Charles Bracelen Flood

Vice Presidents
Marshall Best
Robert Halsband
Julius Isaacs
John Leggett
Harding Lemay

Treasurer
Edward L. Burlingame

Secretary
Theodore M. Purdy

Executive Board
Renata Adler
Edward Albee
Mary Ellin Barrett
Thomas Berger
John Brooks
Pearl Buck
Hallie Burnett
B.J. Chute
Marchette Chute
William Cole
Norman Cousins
Leon Edel
Ralph Ellison
John Farrar
James Thomas Flexner
Lewis Galantière
Alan Harrington
Anthony Hecht
Elizabeth Janeway
Edgar Johnson
Bel Kaufman
Donald Keen
John Oliver Killens
Rita Halle Kleeman
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Robie Macauley
Norman Mailer
Saul Maloff
Lenore Marshall
Daniel Melcher
Arthur Miller
Herbert Mitgang
Sidney Offit
George Plimpton
Belle Rosenbaum
Franz Schoenberner
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Roger H. Smith
Richard Taplinger
Richard Walsh, Jr.
Richard Wilbur
José Yglesias