Ann Beattie, the art of the missing / Carolyn Porter
Grace Paley, chaste compactness / Ronald Schleifer
Annie Dillard, narrative fringe / William J. Scheick
Anne Redmon, the fugal procedure of Music and silence / Catherine Rainwater
Cynthia Ozick, invention and orthodoxy / Ellen Pifer
Anne Tyler, medusa points and contact points / Mary F. Robertson
Alice Walker, the dialect and letters of The color purple / Elizabeth Fifer
Maxine Hong Kingston, narrative technique and female identity / Suzanne Juhasz
Toni Morrison, mastery of narrative / Linda W. Wagner
Marge Piercy, the double narrative structure of Small changes / Elaine Tuttle Hansen and William J. Scheick.