The Authors Guild Board of Directors is called its Council, and is composed entirely of writers. They are nominated by a committee and then elected by the membership, which they serve by addressing the issues that most concern working writers.
Authors Guild Council
Officers
W. Ralph Eubanks
President
Mary Bly
Vice President
Peter Petre
Treasurer
Amy Bloom
Secretary
Members of the Council
Rich Benjamin
Sarina Bowen
Christopher Castellani
Sylvia Day
Roxane Gay
Lauren Groff
Mira Jacob
Christina Baker Kline
Jaron Lanier
Victor LaValle
Steven Levy
Kelly Starling Lyons
Courtney Maum
D.T. Max
Chris Pavone
Julia Sanches
Jaunique Sealey
James Shapiro
Stephen Hong Sohn
T.J. Stiles
Jia Tolentino
Danielle Trussoni
Rachel Vail
Nicholas Weinstock
Ex-officio* and Honorary Members of the Council
Roy Blount Jr.*
Robert A. Caro*
Susan Cheever
Pat Cummings
James Gleick*
Erica Jong*
John R. MacArthur
Stephen Manes
Sidney Offit
Mary Pope Osborne*
Letty Cottin Pogrebin*
Douglas Preston*
Roxana Robinson*
Jean Strouse
Nick Taylor*
Scott Turow*
Advisory Council
Ayad Akhtar
Sherman Alexie
Judy Blume
Alexander Chee
Jennifer Egan
Louise Erdrich
Peter Gethers
Annette Gordon-Reed
Tayari Jones
Nicholas Lemann
CJ Lyons
Frederic Martini
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Daniel Okrent
Julia Quinn
Cathleen Schine
Hampton Sides
Jonathan Taplin
Monique Truong
