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PEN America
The Freedom to Write
About PEN America
PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Our mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible. PEN America is the largest of more than 100 centers of PEN International. For more than 90 years, we have been working together with our colleagues in the international PEN community to ensure that people everywhere have the freedom to create literature, to convey information and ideas, to express their views, and to make it possible for everyone to access the views, ideas, and literatures of others. In doing so, we are building on a tradition begun in the years following World War I and carried forward by thousands of American writers. Our strength is our membership—a nationwide community of novelists, journalists, editors, poets, essayists, playwrights, publishers, translators, agents, and other professionals, and an even larger network of devoted readers and supporters who join with them to carry out PEN America's mission.
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Signals from PEN America
8 published signals
Research & Knowledge
PEN America published a new report titled Out of Circulation: Expanding Censorship in Public Libraries, which states that public libraries in the US are at breaking point.
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Presence & Recognition
PEN America mourns the loss of Gloria Steinem, the legendary activist and bestselling author who co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972.
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Research & Knowledge
PEN America published Out of Circulation: Expanding Censorship in Public Libraries, illustrating how public librarians across the country have been overwhelmed by attacks on their profession.
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Products & Services
PEN America published literary photographer Beowulf Sheehan's second book, The Father of the Man: The Last Author Portrait Sitting with Cormac McCarthy, which hits shelves on September 1.
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Research & Knowledge
PEN America published a report stating that public libraries in the US are at breaking point due to political interference, harassment, and ideological censorship.
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Research & Knowledge
PEN America published a new report titled Out of Circulation: Expanding Censorship in Public Libraries examining the fallout from book bans, cancelled story hours, harassment of librarians, funding cuts, and the undoing of libraries’ independent governance.
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Presence & Recognition
PEN America's co-CEO Summer Lopez attended a conversation with Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber introducing transfer and first-year students to the University's commitment to academic freedom and free expression.
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Presence & Recognition
PEN America co-CEO and Princeton 08 MPA Summer Lopez spoke at a Princeton University orientation about free speech and academic freedom
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