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