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Best of the Web: Writers State Department Payroll, Date Judith Regan

Four Pulitzer Prize winners, Michael Chabon, Robert Olen Butler,
historian David Herbert Donald and Richard Ford; the American poet
laureate, Billy Collins; two Arab-Americans, Naomi Shihab Nye and
Elmaz Abinader; and Robert Pinsky, Charles Johnson, Bharati Mukherjee
and Sven Birkerts--what do these writers have in common? They're all
working for the State Department, according to the New York Times.

The writers have contributed to an anthology of essays edited by the
State Department on the subject of being an American writer that will
be distributed though American embassies abroad.

The article is online here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/07/arts/07WRIT.html
The essays can be read here:
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers

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