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2014 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerMark Fainaru-Wada & Steve Fainaru, League of Denial (Crown Archetype)The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. Eligible titles should be of a… More
2014 PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerDave AndersonThe PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing, which was conferred for the first time in the fall of 2011, is given to one living American or… More
2014 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
WinnerJames Wolcott, Critical Mass (Doubleday)The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay aims to preserve the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature. The winner… More
2014 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction
WinnerRon Childress for his manuscript And West Is West (forthcoming from Algonquin Books October, 2014)The Bellwether Prize, which was established in 2000 by Barbara Kingsolver and is funded entirely… More
2014 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
WinnerLouise ErdrichThe PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction goes to a living American author whose scale of achievement in fiction, over a sustained career, places him or… More
2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
WinnerShawn Vestal, Godforsaken Idaho (Little A/New Harvest/Amazon Publishing)The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement and… More
The Burglary
Electoral politics were manipulated to defeat candidates the director did not like. Even mild dissent, in the eyes of the FBI, could make an American worthy of being spied… More
Testimonials by Co-Hosts of 2014 PEN New Members/New Books Party
The concept of free expression is very near and dear in my heart. My parents came from China, and growing up we were taught that we could never take… More
The PEN Ten with Nathaniel Bellows
Art, as a pursuit, has a place and purpose in the “public” sphere. There are few other known forces in the world that can provide such comfort, solace, provocation,… More
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