Contributors to Fierce Pajamas, An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker, by year of birth:
- Clarence Day (b. 1874)
- Don Marquis (b. 1878)
- Upton Sinclair (b. 1878)
- Alexander Woollcott (b. 1887)
- Robert Benchley (b. 1889)
- George S. Kaufman (b. 1889)
- Groucho Marx (b. 1890)
- Ruth Suckow (b. 1892)
- Frank Sullivan (b. 1892)
- Dorothy Parker (b. 1893)
- James Thurber (b. 1894)
- Robert Graves (b. 1895)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1896)
- Vladimir Nabokov (b. 1899)
- Ludwig Bemelmans (b. 1898)
- E.B. White (b. 1899)
- Wolcott Gibbs (b. 1902)
- Ogden Nash (b. 1902)
- S.J. Perelman (b. 1904)
- Phyllis McGinley (b. 1905)
- W.H. Auden (b. 1907)
- H.F. Ellis (b. 1907)
- William Shawn (b. 1907)
- Leo Rosten, aka "Leonard Q. Ross" (b. 1908)
- Peter De Vries (b. 1910)
- Elizabeth Bishop (b. 1911)
- John Lardner (b. 1912)
- Philip Hamburger (b. 1914)
- Roger Angell (b. 1920)
- Howard Moss (b. 1922)
- L. Rust Hills (b. 1924)
- Donald Hall (b. 1928)
- Michael Arlen (b. 1930)
- Bruce Jay Friedman (b. 1930)
- Donald Barthelme (b. 1931)
- Mike Nichols (b. 1931)
- Thomas Meehan (b. 1932)
- John Updike (b. 1932)
- Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
- Woody Allen (b. 1935)
- Bruce McCall (b. 1935)
- Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)
- Roy Blount Jr. (b. 1941)
- Marshall Brickman (b. 1941)
- Veronica Geng (b. 1941)
- Daniel Menaker (b. 1941)
- Garrison Keillor (b. 1942)
- George W.S. Trow (b. 1943)
- Steve Martin (b. 1945)
- Charles McGrath (b. 1947)
- Chet Williamson (b. 1948)
- Martin Amis (b. 1949)
- Jack Handey (b. 1949)
- Mark Singer (b. 1950)
- Ian Frazier (b. 1951)
- Christopher Buckley (b. 1952)
- Bill Franzen (b. 1952)
- Polly Frost (b. 1952)
- Frank Gannon (b. 1952)
- Louis Menand (b. 1952)
- Cathleen Schine (b. 1953)
- Susan Orlean (b. 1955)
- David Owen (b. 1955)
- Nancy Franklin (b. 1956)
- Adam Gopnik (b. 1956)
- Lisa Walker (b. 1956)
- Paul Rudnick (b. 1957)
- Andy Borowitz (b. 1958)
- Larry Doyle (b. 1958)
- David Brooks (b. 1961)
- Scott Gutterman (b. 1961)
- Anthony Lane (b. 1962)
- Frank Cammuso (b. 1965)
- Noah Baumbach (b. 1969)
- Michael Gerber (b. 1969)