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A collection of beloved authors on their favorite writers, including Martin Amis on Saul Bellow, Truman Capote on Willa Cather, and Salman Rushdie on Christopher Hitchens, as featured in Vanity Fair What did A. Scott Berg find in Ernest Hemingway's papers in Cuba? How did meeting e.e. cummings change a young Susan Cheever? What does Joseph Brodsky have to say about W. H. Auden? Vanity Fair has long published the most compelling writers and thinkers of our time. Selected by Vanity Fair editors and collected here for the first time, Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers explores how writers influence each other and our culture, from Dorothy Parker to Toni Morrison. It includes essays on novelists, poets, journalists, and writers of popular fiction, and features an introduction by Graydon Carter.