The Best American Essays 2011: The Best American Series

by Edwidge Danticat, Robert Atwan

A collection of the years's best essays, as published in periodicals.

  • Format: eBook
  • ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780547678436
  • ISBN-10: 0547678436
  • Pages: 272
  • Publication Date: 10/04/2011
  • Carton Quantity: 1
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  • About the Book
    The Best American Series®
    First, Best, and Best-Selling

    The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.

    The Best American Essays 2011 includes

    Hilton Als, Katy Butler, Toi Derricotte, Christopher Hitchens,
    Pico Iyer, Charlie LeDuff, Chang-Rae Lee, Lia Purpura, Zadie Smith,
    Reshma Memon Yaqub, and others

  • About the Author

    Edwidge Danticat

    Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous critically accalimed books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, and Brother, I'm Dying, winner of an NBCC award in Autobiography.

    Robert Atwan

    ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide.

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