Best American Essays 2006（ISBN=9780618705313）

　　Edited by the best-selling writer Lauren Slater, this year's Best American Essays highlights provocative, lively writing from many of our brightest literary lights. Contributors include Adam Gopnik, Scott Turow, Marjorie Williams, Poe Ballantine, and others.

　　Since the inception of "The Best American Essays" in 1986 as a trade book title, Robert Atwan has been series editor. He has published reviews and essays in a range of periodicals and edited a number of other literature anthologies. Atwan most recently edited two collections of poetry with a Biblical theme, Chapters into Verse by Oxford University Press and Divine Inspiration by Oxford University Press.Lauren Slater is the author of the best-selling "Welcome to My Country", "Prozac Diary", "Lying: A Metaphorical Memoirs", "Spasm: A Memoirs with Lies", "Love Works Like This", and "Opening Skinner's Box". She is also a Boston-based psychologist.