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The Best American Essays 2022

By Robert Atwan, Alexander Chee

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A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.

Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.


ISBN: 9780358658870
Imprint: Mariner Books
On Sale: Nov 1, 2022
List price: $21.99
No of pages: 336
Trim Size: 5.500 in (w) x 8.200 in (h) x 0.850 in (d)
BISAC 1: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
BISAC 2: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
BISAC 3: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Nonfiction (incl. Memoirs)
BISAC 4:
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Robert Atwan

Biography

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.

Alexander Chee

Biography

ALEXANDER CHEE is the author of the novels Edinburgh, for which he won a Whiting Award, and Queen of the Night, which was a national bestseller. His essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel was named a best book of the year by New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, NPR, and Time. In 2025 Kirkus Reviews named it one of the hundred best books of nonfiction of the 21st century. Chee is a recipient of the NEA Fellowship in Fiction and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ledig House, and Civitella Ranieri. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, and NPR, among other publications, and he is a Contributing Editor at The New Republic. He lives in New York City.

Ewan Chung

William DeMeritt

Tyla Collier

Rainy Fields

Eunice Wong

Micky Shiloah

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.

Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.


ISBN: 9780358658870
Imprint: Mariner Books
On Sale: Nov 1, 2022
List price: $21.99
No of pages: 336
Trim Size: 5.500 in (w) x 8.200 in (h) x 0.850 in (d)
BISAC 1: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
BISAC 2: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
BISAC 3: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Nonfiction (incl. Memoirs)
BISAC 4:
BISAC 5:
BISAC 6:

Robert Atwan

Biography

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.

Alexander Chee

Biography

ALEXANDER CHEE is the author of the novels Edinburgh, for which he won a Whiting Award, and Queen of the Night, which was a national bestseller. His essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel was named a best book of the year by New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, NPR, and Time. In 2025 Kirkus Reviews named it one of the hundred best books of nonfiction of the 21st century. Chee is a recipient of the NEA Fellowship in Fiction and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ledig House, and Civitella Ranieri. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, and NPR, among other publications, and he is a Contributing Editor at The New Republic. He lives in New York City.

Ewan Chung

William DeMeritt

Tyla Collier

Rainy Fields

Eunice Wong

Micky Shiloah