Remembering Vera B. Williams: A Tribute
Friends, writers, and illustrators pay tribute to the longtime former chair of PEN's CYAB Committee and much beloved children's book writer and illustrator. More
Eva Hoffman reads “A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto” by Czesław Miłosz
Eva Hoffman reads "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto" by Czesław Miłosz. This week marks 11 years since Miłosz's death in 2004. More
Nikki Giovanni: Making James Baldwin
"Never refuse to hear the cry of the anguished, or the laughter in the blues." Nikki Giovanni pays tribute to James Baldwin. Listen to this week's #PENpodcast in honor of… More
Charles Bracelen Flood: 1930-2014
PEN remembers former PEN American Center President and distinguished novelist and historian Charles Bracelen Flood, 84, who died on August 15, 2014. More
Her Family Destroyed All Copies of Her Most Prestigious Novel
PEN Haiti celebrated its third annual Libérez la Parole Festival this week, this time in honor of Marie Vieux Chauvet, a doyen of Haitian letters. More
Goodbye to a Great Woman
A writer like Nadine Gordimer is rare. She was one of those great ones who challenged the human faculty for reading because her writing never conformed to the norms… More
Nadine Gordimer: A Life Well Lived (1923-2014)
Nadine Gordimer was a remarkable author activist who did as much as anyone to rouse the conscience of the world to the iniquities of apartheid in South Africa. More
A Tribute to Walter Dean Myers (August 12, 1937-July 1, 2014)
His element was as a spokesman for the male point of view in black literature for children. More
Amiri Baraka: Our Man Jimmy
This excerpt is part of the Twentieth-Century Masters Tribute to James Baldwin, sponsored by PEN American Center and Lincoln Center, with The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture… More
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