List of The New Yorker contributors

The following is a list of current and past contributors to The New Yorker, along with the dates they served and their chief areas of interest.

A-GL

• Joan Acocella - cultural/dance critic, 1992-
• Franklin P. Adams - writer, 1925-
• Charles Addams - cartoonist
• Aravind Adiga - fiction writer
• Renata Adler - writer
• Vince Aletti - photography critic, 2005-
• Woody Allen - humorist
• Hilton Als - essayist, theatre critic, staff writer, 1989-
• Al Alvarez - writer
• Jon Lee Anderson - journalist
• Roger Angell - fiction editor and baseball writer
• Hannah Arendt - political scientist, philosopher, journalist
• Richard Armour (poet) - poet
• Ed Arno - cartoonist
• Peter Arno - cartoonist
• Margaret Atwood - fiction writer
• Audax Minor (pseud.) - horseracing reporter
• Ken Auletta - media critic
• Richard Avedon - staff photographer
• Whitney Balliett - jazz critic and book reviewer, 1954-2001
• Julian Barnes - correspondent/commentator, Britain/Europe
• Donald Barthelme - short story writer
• Ralph Barton - artist, humorist, 1925
• Noah Baumbach - humorist
• Nathaniel Benchley - writer, 1950-
• Robert Benchley - humorist and theatre critic
• Elizabeth Bishop - poet, essayist
• Tom Bissell - journalist, 2008
• Naomi Bliven - reviewer, 1985
• Sidney Blumenthal - editorialist
• Yves Bonnefoy - poet, 1985
• George Booth - cartoonist
• Andy Borowitz - humorist
• Marianne Boruch - poet
• Jane Boutwell - staff writer, 1985
• Kay Boyle - novelist/short story writer/poet
• T. Coraghessan Boyle - novelist/short story writer. 1995-
• Maeve Brennan - essayist/short story writer
• Joseph Brodsky - poet
• John Brooks - writer, critic, 1950-
• Howard Brubaker - columnist
• Connie Bruck - writer, 2008-
• Christopher Buckley - writer
• Peter Cameron - short story writer, 1985-
• Michael Campbell
• Lincoln Caplan - staff writer, 1985
• Truman Capote - writer
• Robert Caro - biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.
• Rachel Carson - writer and environmentalist
• Raymond Carver - fiction writer
• John Cassidy - staff writer on financial topics
• Catherine Caufield - writer, 1985
• Roz Chast - staff cartoonist, 1978-
• John Cheever - short story writer
• Tom Cheney - cartoonist
• Daniel Clowes - cartoonist, 2010
• Robert M. Coates - art critic, 1949-
• Sam Cobean - cartoonist
• Leonard Cohen - poet
• John Colapinto - staff writer, 1989-
• Steve Coll - writer, 2005-
• John Henry Collier - short story writer
• Lauren Collins - staff writer and editor
• Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr. - staff writer
• Arlene Croce - dance critic, 1973-1998
• Robert Crumb - cartoonist
• Leo Cullum - cartoonist, 1977-2010
• Will Cuppy - humorist
• Roald Dahl - short story writer
• Mark Danner - foreign affairs correspondent
• Edwidge Danticat - short story writer, 1999-
• Peter De Vries - humorist, 1949-
• Paul Degen - illustrator
• Glauco Della Sciucca - illustrator
• David Denby - film critic, staff writer, 1998-
• Kiran Desai - novelist
• Joan Didion - essayist
• E. L. Doctorow - fiction writer
• Liza Donnelly - cartoonist
• Rita Dove - poet, 2008
• Fairfax Downey - writer, 1925-
• Larry Doyle- humorist
• Elizabeth Drew - journalist
• Fuchsia Dunlop - food writer, 2008
• Irwin Edman - philosopher, poet
• Dave Eggers - writer
• Edna Eicke - cover artist
• Deborah Eisenberg - fiction writer, 1985
• H. F. Ellis - essayist, 1985
• Joseph Epstein - writer and essayist
• Louise Erdrich - fiction writer, 1989-
• Jeffrey Eugenides - writer
• Clifton Fadiman - book reviewer
• James Fallows - journalist
• Jules Feiffer - cartoonist
• Frances FitzGerald - journalist, longtime contributor
• Janet Flanner (pseud. Genêt) - journalist, 1925-1975
• Jonathan Safran Foer - fiction writer
• A. H. Folwell (pseud. A. H. F.) - poet, 1925-
• Corey Ford - writer, 1925-
• Dana Fradon - cartoonist
• Nancy Franklin - television critic
• Jonathan Franzen - author
• Ian Frazier - staff writer, 1974-
• Sasha Frere-Jones - pop music critic, 2004-
• Tad Friend - staff writer, 1998-
• Tom Funk - illustrator
• Laura Furman - fiction writer, 1985-
• Gilbert W. Gabriel (pseud. Golly-Wogg) - writer
• Mavis Gallant - short story writer
• Leo Garel - artist
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - culture critic, essayist
• Atul Gawande - surgeon, essayist
• Veronica Geng - humorist, editor, 1976-1992
• Michael Gerber - parodist, humorist
• Wolcott Gibbs - parodist, humorist, reviewer, and fiction writer, 1927-1958
• Brendan Gill - writer, theatre critic, 1936-1998
• Penelope Gilliat - film critic, 1968-1979
• Malcolm Gladwell - essayist

GO-N

• Jeffrey Goldberg - journalist
• Paul Goldberger - architecture critic, 1997-
• Stuart Goldman -jounrnalist
• Adam Gopnik - staff writer, critic, 1986-
• Philip Gourevitch - journalist
• David Grann - staff writer
• Robert Graves - poet, 1950
• Ben Greenman - writer and editor
• Linda Gregg - poet
• Eamon Grennan - poet, 1985
• Jerome Groopman - journalist
• Alma Guillermoprieto - journalist
• Arthur Guiterman - poet, 1925-*Emily Hahn - journalist
• Macy Halford - writer, 2008
• Philip Hamburger - theatre, television and music critic
• Jack Handey - humorist, 2008-
• Lis Harris - journalist
• Sidney Harris - cartoonist
• Leonard Hatch - humorist, 1925-
• Seamus Heaney - Nobel Prize winning poet
• Geoffrey T. Hellman - Talk of the Town reporter, writer, 1929-1977
• Mark Helprin - novelist and essayist
• Seymour Hersh - Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter
• John Hersey - journalist
• Hendrik Hertzberg - editorialist, 1969-?, 1992-
• Peter Hessler - Beijing correspondent
• John Chapman Hilder - humorist, 1925
• Tony Hiss - writer
• Nick Hornby- Pop music critic
• Ernest F. Hubbard - writer
• Albert Hubbell - artist (cover and spot), editor, writer(Stories and Briefly Noted - Nonfiction)
• Sue Hubbell - writer
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault - journalist, 1983-
• Terry Hutt - writer, 1925
• Stanley Edgar Hyman - literary critic
• Rea Irvin - graphic artist, illustrator, creator of the Eustace Tilley cover portrait and the New Yorker typeface
• Shirley Jackson - fiction writer
• Marquis James (pseud. Quid) - writer, 1925-
• Edward P. Jones - fiction writer
• Miranda July - fiction writer
• Pauline Kael - film critic, 1968-1991
• E. J. Kahn - journalist, essayist, staff writer, 1937-
• Jennifer Kahn - sports writer, 2010-
• Peter Kalischer - journalist, 1947-1951
• Zachary Kanin - writer, 2010
• Ben Katchor - cartoonist and illustrator
• Matthew Keegan - cartoonist
• Garrison Keillor - humorist
• Edmund J. Kiefer - humorist, 1925
• Jamaica Kincaid - writer
• Stephen King - writer
• Adam Kirsch - literary critic, 2009
• Clarence Knapp - writer, 1925-
• Dan Kois, writer, 2010
• Elizabeth Kolbert - essayist, journalist, 1999-
• Edward Koren - cartoonist
• Alex Kozinski - essayist
• Fernando Krahn - cartoonist
• Jane Kramer - staff writer, 1964- , Letter from Europe correspondent, 1981-
• Nicole Krauss - novelist
• Milan Kundera - Jerusalem Prize winning author
• Jhumpa Lahiri - fiction writer
• John Lahr - theatre critic, 1992-
• Alexander Laing - poet, 1950-
• Anthony Lane - film critic, 1993-
• Susan Lardner - book critic
• Ursula K. Le Guin - author, 1985
• Andrea Lee-author, journalist
• Baird Leonard - poet, contributed from 1925-
• Jill Lepore - writer, 2005-
• Suzannah Lessard - staff writer, 1985
• Ariel Levy - staff writer, 2008-
• Newman Levy - humorist, 1925-
• A.J. Liebling - journalism critic and boxing writer, 1935-1963
• Ryan Lizza-political writer
• Lois Long (pseud. Lipstick) - columnist, 1920s-1968
• Tim Long - humorist
• Lee Lorenz - cartoonist, editor
• Peter Maass - international journalist
• Larissa MacFarquhar- reporter at large,1998-
• Janet Malcolm - essayist
• Herman J. Mankiewicz (pseud. H.J.M.) - writer, 1925-
• Robert Mankoff - cartoonist and editor
• Joseph Moncure March - editor, poet, 1925-1929
• Don Marquis - cartoonist
• Guy Martin - writer, 2009
• Henry Martin - cartoonist
• Steve Martin - humorist
• Patricia Marx - humorist, reporter, 1989-
• Michael Maslin -cartoonist
• William Maxwell - editor, 1936-1975
• Jane Mayer - journalist
• David Mazzuchelli- illustrator
• Bruce McCall - humorist, illustrator
• John McCarten - film critic
• Phyllis McGinley - poet, 1950-
• Ben McGrath - staff writer, 2002-
• James Kevin McGuinness - humorist, poet, 1925-
• St. Clair McKelway - editor, nonfiction writer
• William McKibben - staff writer, 1982-1987
• John McNulty - writer
• John McPhee - nonfiction writer
• Rebecca Mead - staff writer, 1997-
• David Means - fiction writer, 2004-
• Ved Mehta - fiction and nonfiction writer
• Louis Menand - literary critic
• James Merrill - poet
• Steven Millhauser - fiction writer
• Joseph Mitchell - nonfiction writer
• Alan Moorehead - journalist, 1950
• Ethan Mordden - fiction and nonfiction writer
• Françoise Mouly - art editor
• James Mulligan -cartoonist
• Lewis Mumford - architecture critic, 1949-50
• Alice Munro - fiction writer, 1985
• Haruki Murakami - novelist
• Vladimir Nabokov - fiction writer
• V.S. Naipaul - journalist
• Ogden Nash - poet, 1950-

O-Z

• John O'Hara - short story writer
• Joyce Carol Oates - short story writer, 2009
• Edith Oliver - theatre critic, 1985
• Susan Orlean - staff writer, 1987-
• David Owen - staff writer, 1991-
• Amos Oz - fiction writer, 1995-
• George Packer - staff writer, 2003-
• Grace Paley - short story writer
• Mollie Panter-Downes - nonfiction writer, author of 'Letter from London', 1939-1984
• Dorothy Parker - short story writer, drama critic, poet, humorist
• Frances Gray Patton - short story writer, 1949
• Nick Paumgarten - staff writer, 2000-
• Murdock Pemberton - art critic, essayist, poet, 1925-
• S. J. Perelman - humorist
• Claudia Roth Pierpont - staff writer
• Sylvia Plath - poet
• Andrew Porter (music critic) - music critic
• George Price - cartoonist
• Annie Proulx - short story writer
• Jonathan Raban - journalist, travel writer
• Donald Reilly - cartoonist
• David Remnick - editor and writer
• James Reston, Jr. - journalist, 1985-
• Mordecai Richler - essayist
• Norman Rockwell - illustrator
• David Roe - staff writer, 1985
• Carl Rose - cartoonist
• Alex Ross - music critic, 1993-
• Lillian Ross - staff writer, 1945-
• Philip Roth - fiction writer
• Berton Roueché - medical writer, 1949-
• Richard H. Rovere - journalist, 1950
• Paul Ruffino - nonfiction writer/poet
• Salman Rushdie - author
• Oliver Sacks - neurologist, writer
• J. D. Salinger - short story writer
• Kelefa Sanneh - critic, staff writer, 2008-
• Winthrop Sargeant - music critic
• Gerald Scarfe - illustrator
• Simon Schama - historian, art history, professor
• Peter Schjeldahl - art critic, staff writer, 1998-
• Stacy Schiff - nonfiction writer
• Stephen Schiff - staff writer, 1992-2003
• Michael Schulman - writer, 2010-
• Jonathan Schwarz - parodist, humorist
• John Seabrook - staff writer, 1989-
• David Sedaris - humorist
• Jean-Jacques Sempé - cartoonist
• Vijay Seshadri - poet
• Anne Sexton - poet
• Robert Shaplen - reporter, 1986
• Charles G. Shaw - humorist, 1925-
• Jim Shepard - short story writer, 2010
• Robert Sikoryak - cartoonist
• Charles Simic - poet, 1971-
• Gretchen Dow Simpson - cover artist
• Isaac Bashevis Singer - short story writer, 1985-
• Mark Singer (writer) - journalist, staff writer
• Cornelia Otis Skinner - writer, 1950-
• Otto Soglow - cartoonist: The Little King cartoons & others
• Susan Sontag - short story writer and essayist
• Michael Specter - journalist
• Art Spiegelman - illustrator
• Ralph Steadman - illustrator
• William Steig - cartoonist
• Saul Steinberg - illustrator
• George Steiner - cultural critic
• Peter Steiner - cartoonist
• Alec Stevens - illustrator
• Mick Stevens - cartoonist
• James Stevenson (writer)
• Alexander Stille - writer, 2008-
• James Surowiecki - essayist and economic/financial columnist, 2000-
• Jon Swan - staff writer and poet
• Joost Swarte - cartoonist, knighted for his work by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
• Margaret Talbot - writer, 2008-
• James Thurber - cartoonist, short story writer, and essayist, 1927-1950s
• Adrian Tomine - illustrator
• Calvin Tomkins - arts writer
• Jeffrey Toobin - legal reporter, staff writer, 1993-
• Touré - cultural critic
• Calvin Trillin - nonfiction writer (especially on food) and humorist, 2008-
• George W. S. Trow - essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic
• Kenneth Tynan - theatre critic
• John Updike - fiction writer, poet, essayist, 1954-2009
• Betty Wahl - writer, 1950
• Elsa Walsh - journalist
• Chris Ware - cartoonist
• Joseph Wechsberg - writer, 1950-
• Lawrence Weschler - journalist, staff writer, 1981-2002
• Rogers E. M. Whitaker - essayist, railroad writer, a.k.a. E.M. Frimbo
• E. B. White - essayist and editor
• Lizzie Widdicombe - writer, 2006-
• Reeves Wiedeman - writer, 2010
• Amy Wilentz - writer, 1994-
• Alec Wilkinson - essayist and author, 1980-
• Ellen Willis - pop music critic
• Edmund Wilson - literary critic, 1950-
• Gahan Wilson - cartoonist
• Herbert Warren Wind - essayist, golf historian and journalist
• James Wolcott - television critic
• Tobias Wolff - short story writer
• James Wood - literary critic, staff writer, 2007-
• Alexander Woollcott - theatre critic
• Franz Wright - poet
• Lawrence Wright - staff writer, 1992-
• Elizabeth Wurtzel- cultural critic and author
• Daniel Zalewski - features editor and non-fiction writer
• Jack Ziegler - cartoonist
• Zha Jianying - writer, 2010