The Best American Essays 2016 (58 page)

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About the Editors

J
ONATHAN
F
RANZEN
, guest editor, is the author of five novels, most recently
Purity
, and five works of nonfiction and translation, including
Farther Away
and
The Kraus Project
. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Künste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

R
OBERT
A
TWAN
, the series editor of
The Best American Essays
since its inception in 1986, has published on a wide variety of subjects, from American advertising and early photography to ancient divination and Shakespeare. His criticism, essays, humor, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous periodicals nationwide.