Robert Atwan (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Atwan (born November 2, 1940, Paterson, New Jersey) is an essayist and editor of several anthologies of literature. He attended Seton Hall University and Rutgers University. He compiles The Best American Essays as part of Houghton-Mifflin's Best American series. The Best American Series is an annually-published collection of books, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, each of which features a different genre or theme. Each book selects from works published in North America during the previous year, selected by a guest editor who is an established writer within the given field. This series, the original, should not be confused with more recent Best American series published by Harper Perennial and Palgrave Macmillan.