From Art Director Richard Weigand, a love letter to writers on the cover of Esquire‘s 40th anniversary issue in October 1973, showing contributors John Kenneth Galbraith, Tom Wolfe, Nora Ephron, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Alan Arthur, Murray Kempton, John Updike, William Styron, Gay Talese, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Dwight Macdonald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Baldwin, John O’Hara, John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, H.L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Irwin Shaw, Richard H. Rovere, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, Peter Bogdanovich, Garry Wills, Richard Joseph, Leon Trotsky, Ralph Ellison, Tennessee Williams, Malcolm Muggeridge, Sinclair Lewis, Gore Vidal, John Sack, Arnold Gingrich, John Dos Passos, Thomas Berger, John Cheever, Laurence Stallings. My heroes, more or less.
