The Best American Travel Writing

The Best American Travel Writing was a yearly anthology of travel literature published in United States magazines. It was started in 2000 as part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin. Essays were chosen using the same procedure as other titles in the Best American series; the series editor chose about 100 article candidates, from which the guest editor picked 25 or so for publication; the remaining runner-up articles were listed in the appendix.

Jason Wilson was the series editor from its inception in 2000 to its final edition in 2021.

Guest editors

2000: Bill Bryson

2001: Paul Theroux

2002: Frances Mayes

2003: Ian Frazier

2004: Pico Iyer

2005: Jamaica Kincaid

2006: Tim Cahill

2007: Susan Orlean

2008: Anthony Bourdain

2009: Simon Winchester

2010: Bill Buford

2011: Sloane Crosley

2012: William Vollmann

2013: Elizabeth Gilbert

2014: Paul Theroux

2015: Andrew McCarthy

2016: Bill Bryson

2017: Lauren Collins

2018: Cheryl Strayed

2019: Alexandra Fuller

2020: Robert Macfarlane

2021: Padma Lakshmi

References

Book series introduced in 2000

Travel Writing

Publications established in 2000

Houghton Mifflin books

Travel books