V knigu vospominanii ob Aleksandre Vampilove voshli ne tol'ko vospominaniia, no i stikhi, napisannye pamiati vydaiushchegosia dramaturga, i stat'i o ego tvorchestve. Voshli v nee vospominaniia mnogikh druzei-pisatelei, s kem on nachinal svoi neveroiatno slozhnyi put' k serdtsu chitatelia i zritelia: eto V.G. Rasputin i E.A. Suvorov, G.N. Mashkin i P.I. Reutskii, V.B. ZHemchuzhnikov i D.G. Sergeev, G.F. Nikolaev i V.N. KHairiuzov. Kritiki N.S. Tenditnik, V.P. Trushkin, P.V. Zabelin. Izvestnye aktery, rezhissery i dramaturgi: Oleg Efremov, Stanislav Liubshin, Vladimir Andreev, Viktor Rozov. Pervyi postanovshchik ego p'esy «Starshii syn» Vladimir Simonovskii. Blizkie druz'ia: T.G. Busargina, V. Zorkii, B. Kislov, I. Petrov, B. Leont'ev.