History of PEN America
PEN America celebrated its centenary in 2022, 100 years after its founding in New York City. Here are highlights of PEN America's history and the origins of PEN America. More
On the Launch of the PEN America Digital Archive
The multimedia materials found in the archives are a testament to the profound impact writers have had on the history of our nation and of our world. More
Tune In Tuesdays: PEN American Center Digital Archive of Free Expression
Supported by a 2015 NEH grant, PEN American Center is preserving and digitizing more than 1,200 hours of recordings from 800 events previously unavailable to the public. More
From the Floor: A Conversation with Grace Paley, Margaret Atwood, and Norman Mailer
We protest the state of the imagination of the PEN International Congress, 1986. We protest the underrepresentation of women on the panels and in the readings. Although nearly half… More
Sidney Offit: Memories of Norman Mailer
My memories of Norman Mailer drift back more than forty years to an evening we shared at one of the PEN cocktail parties. Held at the Pierre Hotel, these… More
Tribute to Norman Mailer
Unlike other literary figures, Mailer was not prone to elite sensibilities in his private or public life. He was not a pragmatist nor an opportunist, nor was he politically… More
Tribute to Norman Mailer
There was the true Norman and the public Norman. I really only knew the true Norman—thank God—because there was a huge difference between the two. More
Tribute to Norman Mailer
I scarcely knew him as a man, but I knew the work made by the man. Reading him when I was twelve—memorizing the obscene lyrics in The Naked and… More
Remembering Norman Mailer
I first met Norman Mailer in the spring of l948, when the United States, the ocean liner my mother and I were traveling on—it may have been its maiden… More
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