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PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Mentorship Program
PEN America's Prison and Justice Writing Mentorship Program has paired incarcerated writers with skilled writing mentors in prisons all over the U.S. for nearly 50 years. More
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PEN/Roger Klein Award for Career Achievement
2001 Marian Wood, Publisher of Marian Wood Books More
PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction Winners
2007 Philip Roth 2009 Cormac McCarthy 2010 Don DeLillo 2012 E.L. Doctorow 2014 Louise Erdrich 2016 Toni Morrison 2018 Edmund White More
III. 2016: Roster of Current Trustees
Board of Trustees 2014-2015 (As of December 2015) Officers Peter Godwin, President John Troubh, Executive Vice-President Jeri Laber, Vice-President Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Vice-President Annette Tapert, Vice-President John Oakes, Treasurer Theresa Rebeck, Secretary Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director Term Trustees Edward Burlingame Roxanne Donovan Jennifer Egan Nathan Englander Morgan Entrekin Jeanmarie Fenrich Masha Gessen Wendy Gimbel Barbara Goldsmith Annette Gordon-Reed Tom Healy Samuel Heins Tracy… More
Defining Socially Engaged Fiction
Socially engaged fiction, for the purposes of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, may describe categorical human transgressions in a way that compels readers to examine their own… More
A Writer’s Writer: On Translating Regina Ullmann
"Rilke would continue to champion Ullmann’s work until his death, along with other notable admirers including Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse. Yet she remained what we today would call… More
III. Roster of Current Trustees
Board of Trustees 2014-2015 (As of December 2014) Officers Peter Godwin, President John Troubh, Executive Vice-President Jeri Laber, Vice-President Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Vice-President Annette Tapert, Vice-President John Oakes, Treasurer Theresa Rebeck, Secretary Suzanne Nossel, Executive… More
Open Letter to Michael Lynton, Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and CEO re: The Interview
If the decision to pull The Interview from all platforms stands, it will represent a lasting blow for free expression, emboldening would-be censors the world over. Impoverishing creative freedom,… More
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