2012 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

WinnerRobert K. Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Random House)The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in the art of biography. This prize of $5,000 will… More

2012 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing

WinnerDan Barry, Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. Eligible titles should be… More

2012 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

WinnerJames Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a FloodThe PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Prize celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences. The… More

2012 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize

WinnerVanessa Veselka, Zazen 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 suggests great… More

Middletown

Anyway, he was magnificent. The first expressive gesture. From that little curl of the toes to all of the world’s bibles and languages, it’s just a matter of time.… More

2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize

Inaugural Award WinnerSusan Nussbaum, for her novel Good Kings Bad KingsThe Bellwether Prize, which was established in 2000 by Barbara Kingsolver and is funded entirely by her, was created to… More

Ivory Black

The interior eye / Opposite watching’s touch / In what is black white / Is by accident / The eye detaches / As it slips from itself / What… More

Through the Yellow Hour

Maude stands in the entrance, wearing a blue bonnet on her head, as well as a gas mask, a large backpack worn in the front, boots. She also wears… More