Appendix: The Top New York Review of Books Contributors

Also how book prices have changed and how many NYRB articles are actually books

A reader suggested putting appendices into separate posts that aren’t emailed like other posts, which seems like a good idea. Here are the charts that initially appeared at the end of “The New New York Review of Books,” a look at how the contributorship of the NYRB has changed over time.

Top All-Time New York Review of Books Contributors

1. Garry Wills (201 articles)

2. Murray Kempton (169 articles)

3. Ian Buruma (165 articles)

4. Michael Wood (145 articles)

5. Neal Ascherson (128 articles)

6. John Bayley (117 articles)

7. James Fenton (116 articles)

8. Denis Donoghue (108 articles)

9. Gabriele Annan (106 articles)

10. Robert Craft (106 articles)

11. V.S. Pritchett (105 articles)

12. Robert M. Adams (99 articles)

13. Geoffrey O’Brien (95 articles)

14. Darryl Pinckney (94 articles)

15. Elizabeth Hardwick (93 articles)

16. John Banville (92 articles)

17. Noel Annan (91 articles)

18. Sanford Schwartz (90 articles)

19. David Cole (87 articles)

20. Jonathan Mirsky (84 articles)

21. Diane Johnson (84 articles)

22. Timothy Garton Ash (83 articles)

23. Joyce Carol Oates (77 articles)

24. Martin Filler (77 articles)

25. Charles Simic (77 articles)

26. Charles Rosen (77 articles)

27. Tony Judt (75 articles)

28. Gordon A. Craig (74 articles)

29. Tim Parks (74 articles)

30. Frank Kermode (74 articles)

31. Robert Towers (72 articles)

32. Ingrid D. Rowland (72 articles)

33. Ronald Dworkin (71 articles)

34. I.F. Stone (71 articles)

35. Michael Tomasky (71 articles)

36. Gordon S. Wood (68 articles)

37. Gore Vidal (68 articles)

38. Helen Vendler (66 articles)

39. John Updike (66 articles)

40. Daniel Mendelsohn (66 articles)

41. Fintan O’Toole (65 articles)

42. Andrew Hacker (64 articles)

43. Rosemary Dinnage (64 articles)

44. Alison Lurie (63 articles)

45. Alfred Kazin (63 articles)

46. Alan Ryan (63 articles)

47. Conor Cruise O'Brien (60 articles)

48. Edmund S. Morgan (59 articles)

49. Robert Darnton (59 articles)

50. Christopher Benfey (58 articles)

51. J.M. Coetzee (57 articles)

52. Thomas Powers (56 articles)

53. C. Vann Woodward (55 articles)

54. J.M. Cameron (54 articles)

55. Thomas R. Edwards (53 articles)

56. Mark Danner (52 articles)

57. Larry McMurtry (52 articles)

58. Ronald Steel (52 articles)

59. D.J. Enright (51 articles)

60. Theodore H. Draper (51 articles)

    Top New York Review of Books Contributors by Decade