AN OPEN LETTER
Dear Premier Kosygin,
We, who regard ourselves as members of an international com–
munity of letters and deny the right of ,our own government to
restrict our artistic and intellectual freedom, deplore the con–
viction of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel and are shocked
by the severity of their sentences. We urge you
to
commute
the sentences of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli' Daniel and
to
per–
mit them to pursue their profession as writers.
Daniel Aaron
Louis Fischer
Richard Hofstadter
Lionel Abel
R. W. Flint
John Hollander
Henry D. Aiken
Joseph Frank
Sidney Hook
William Alfred
Bruce Jay Friedman
Richard Howard
Jacques Barzun
Sanford Friedman
Irving Howe
Eric Bentley
Erich Fromm
H. Stuart Hughes
John Berryman
Norman Fruchter
Charles Jackson
Marius Bewley
Eugene D. Genovese Paul Jacobs
John Malcolm Brinnin Allen Ginsberg
Jasper Johns
Robert Brustein
Paul Goodman
Stanley Kauffmann
Jules Chamenky
Adolph Gottlieb
Walter Kaufmann
Eleanor Clark
Michael Hamburger
Alfred Kazin
Marshall Cohen
Stuart Hampshire
Louis Kronenberger
Lewis Coser
Oscar Handlin
Stanley Kunin
James Dickey
Elizabeth Hardwick
Jeremy Larner
Martin Duberman
Michael Harrington
Roy Lichtenstein
F. W. Dupee
Tom Hayden
Robert Lowell
George P. Elliott
Hiram Haydn
Jack LUdwig
Richard Ellmann
Anthony Hecht
Staughton Lynd
Victor Erlich
Joseph Heller
Kenneth S. Lynn
Donald Fanger
Lillian Hellman
Robie Macauley
Jules Feiffer
Nat Hentoff
Dwight Macdonald
Leslie A. Fiedler
John Hersey
Norman Mailer