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PENAmericanCENTERAnnualReport2011Liao Yiwu performs his poem about the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square in his first U.S. appearance

PEN American CENTERstaff 2011Antonio Aiello, Website EditorEmma Connolly, Executive AssistantJasmine Davey, Membership, Literary Awards, & Writers’ Fund CoordinatorRobyn DesHotel, Director of Finance & AdministrationAlena Graedon, Manager of Membership & Literary AwardsDavid Haglund, Managing Editor, PEN America & Communications CoordinatorSarah Hoffman, Freedom to Write CoordinatorSteven L. Isenberg, Executive DirectorMeghan Kyle-Miller, Development AssociateStacy Leigh, Readers & Writers and Open Book DirectorChuck Leung, Associate Website EditorM Mark, Editor, PEN AmericaLinda Morgan, Director of DevelopmentDeji Olukotun, Freedom to Write FellowLászló Jakab Orsos, Director of the PEN World Voices Festival & Public ProgramsJessica Rotondi, Executive Assistant & Social Media AssociateLarry Siems, Freedom to Write & International Programs DirectorStefanie Simons, Readers & Writers AssociateTim Smalls, Prison Writing Mentorship Program CoordinatorJackson Taylor, Prison Writing Program DirectorElizabeth Weinstein, PEN World Voices Festival & Public Programs ManagerPen American center annual report 2011 // 03

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Dear PEN Members and Friends,welcome letterclick on grey boxes to jump to mediaAs recent events across the globe have shown—the continued imprisonment of Liu Xiaobo, the abhorrent recordof violence against journalists in Mexico, the thrilling citizen protests at the heart of the Arab Spring, attempts byrepressive governments to control the spread of information through new media—PEN American Center’s missionremains vitally relevant. In 2011, writers under threat in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Ecuador, Tibet, Syria, and several othercountries reached out to PEN for support and assistance as we continued our efforts to free imprisoned writers andjournalists, challenge torturers, mobilize writers as human rights advocates, challenge First Amendment violations, andcreate, through our public programs, a bridge across cultural divisions.We are enormously grateful to all those who make our work possible: our Members and Associate Members, individualdonors, foundation, corporate, and government supporters, programming partners, and our dedicated staff, volunteers,and interns. 2011 brought some important new support in the form of a grant from the Ford Foundation, PEN’s first,which expanded our free expression campaigns in Russia, South Africa, and Haiti. A challenge grant from the CarnegieCorporation of New York for a complete overhaul of PEN.org will strengthen our freedom of expression and humanrights advocacy and allow for wider dissemination of our public programs. The new site will be launched in beta in thefall of 2012, with the full launch to take place a few months later.Highlights of the past year include:• the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival, which brought together 150 participants from 30 countries, including GiocondaBelli (Nicaragua), Elif Shafak (Turkey), Vladimir Sorokin (Russia), and Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), and receivedunprecedented press coverage• the “Reckoning with Torture” project, which seeks to document the United States’ use of torture to help restore thiscountry’s credibility as a defender of human rights, grew in its national impact as it teamed with filmmaker DougLiman for a documentary film project and performances at the Sundance Film Festival , featuring Robert Redfordand Ellen Barkin, and at Lincoln Center , featuring Dianne Wiest and Lili Taylor• the PEN public program with Liao Yiwu , the “Studs Terkel” of China, in August 2011, marking his first appearancein the U.S. after escaping from China. Liao was slated to participate in the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival, but wasbarred from travelling by the Chinese government• the PEN delegation to Beijing, which met with both dissident and “official writers,” pressed the cases of dozens ofwriters and journalists currently imprisoned, created the framework for ongoing Independent Chinese PEN Center/PEN American Center campaigning on China, including preparations for a major report, and celebrated ICPC’s10th anniversaryPen American center annual report 2011 // 05

• PEN’s presence at the Nobel Prize ceremony for Liu Xiaobo and our own relentless campaign for his release fromprison. Read Freedom to Write Program Director Larry Siems’ dispatch from Oslo here• the “Honor Courage” campaign, an initiative to gain public recognition for the American servicemen and women,intelligence officers, and other public officials who fought to stop the abuse and torture of prisoners in U.S. custody2011 also marked the 25th anniversary of the 1986 PEN Congress in New York, described as “a gathering of writersthat has become a literary legend ” by Salman Rushdie, who was inspired by the Congress to create the PEN WorldVoices Festival. Presided over by Arthur Miller and then-PEN President Norman Mailer, participants explored literatureas, in Salman’s words, “a lofty, transnational, transcultural force, that could in [Saul] Bellow’s great formulation,‘open the universe a little more.’” Among those attending were Rushdie, Günter Grass, Wole Soyinka, Mario VargasLlosa, Saul Bellow, Raymond Carver, E.L. Doctorow, Toni Morrison, Edward Said, William Styron, John Updike, KurtVonnegut, Susan Sontag, Czeslaw Milosz, Ryszard Kapu ści ński, Nadine Gordimer, and J. M. Coetzee. We honored thisanniversary during the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival at a symposium with writers addressing the responsibilities ofwriter-intellectuals today, opened by Toni Morrison’s stirring argument for literature as a bulwark of truth, reason, andimagination to move a society forward.Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, accepted the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award onbehalf of Nasrin Sotoudeh at the 2011 Gala, expressing gratitude to all members of the PEN community for thisopportunity to put pressure on the government of Iran for Sotoudeh’s release:“My dear colleague was very eager to send her personalmessage tonight, however, in prison, she is even deprivedof prisoner’s rights…and could not send her message…Iproudly accept the prize on her behalf and thank all thosewho respect freedom of expression, not only in their owncountries, but all over the world.Next year, 2012, we will celebrate PEN American Center’s 90th anniversary.It as an important benchmark, both for the durability of the idealism of PENAmerican Center’s founding principles and for the generosity of those whosustain our work.With warm regards,”K. Anthony appiah & Steven L. IsenbergK. Anthony AppiahPresidentSteven L. IsenbergExecutive DirectorPen American center annual report 2011 // 06

FREEDOM TO wRITEFrom crowds filling public squares in the Middle East and demanding an end to authoritarian rule to spontaneous socialmedia protests against official malfeasance in China, 2011 was a remarkable year for freedom of expression, a yearthat saw both the power of the Internet to advance this essential right and the extremes to which some governmentswill go to keep this right in check. Around the world, PEN members were on the front lines of the push for a greatervoice for the people. In Tunisia, journalist and human rights activist Sihem Bensedrine returned home from exile to helpbuild a freer press the day the Ben Ali government fell, and writer and archivist Emad Abu Ghazi was named Minister ofCulture in post-Mubarak Egypt. In China, Ye Du and Teng Biao helped lead a wave of Internet activism in their countryand paid a heavy price for their courage.Defending fellow PEN members and all those working to protect and expand the freedom to write is PEN’s internationalnetwork of 144 centers in more than 100 countries. As the largest of these PEN affiliates, PEN American Center ismaking a difference every day in the lives of writers and journalists all over the world. Through joint campaigns withPEN partners in countries with acute free expression challenges, the use of our Rapid Action Network that mobilizesactions in support of writers facing imminent threats or imprisonment, and our groundbreaking multimedia initiativesto preserve and promote respect for core human rights values in the United States, PEN American Center staff andmembers are challenging the censors, preventing disappearances, stopping the hands of torturers, and pressing forthe release of all who have been jailed simply for what they have written.Highlights of PEN’s advocacy work this past year follow:KEEPING THE PRESSURE ON CHINABuilding on three years of joint campaigning with the Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC), PEN American Centerled an international delegation to Beijing and Hong Kong in July 2011 to press for the release of former ICPC Presidentand 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and more than 40 other writers, journalists, and bloggers currentlyimprisoned in China. The visit followed a major crackdown on free expression activists in China that included twoprominent ICPC members jailed or disappeared: Ye Du, ICPC’s webmaster; and Teng Biao, a prominent humanrights lawyer and ICPC’s legal consultant. Both were subsequently released, but faced continued restrictions on theirmovements and activities throughout the year.During the delegation’s visit, its members had an opportunity to witness first-hand the dynamic tug-of-war betweenChina’s citizens and its censors. As a result, in December, PEN was once again invited to share its assessment of theclimate for free expression at a hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China on Capitol Hill.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 07

One of the year’s most dramatic stories involved a third ICPC member targeted in the government’s February 2011crackdown. Poet and nonfiction writer Liao Yiwu was barred from leaving the country to appear at the 2011 PENWorld Voices Festival of International Literature in April. In July, Liao managed to elude authorities and leave China,eventually resettling in Germany with PEN’s assistance. He is finally able to work and write freely, and in September,Liao made his first U.S. appearance at a sold-out PEN American Center event in New York City. (Please see the publicprograms section for more information about this event.)HOLDING THE LINE AT THE UNITED NATIONSPEN has been working for several years to counter an initiative at the United Nations toban expression considered defamatory to religions and permit the kinds of prohibitionon blasphemy that have led to the persecution of writers in a number of countries. OnSeptember 16, 2010, PEN led a panel discussion at the U.N. Human Rights Council inGeneva, arguing that such restrictions would do little to foster mutual understandingand respect but clearly would stifle creative freedom. PEN’s sustained advocacy effortspaid off in March 2011, when countries favoring the restrictions abandoned their effortsand supported instead a new initiative to promote religious tolerance that keeps freeexpression protections intact.Thanks to a new grant from the Ford Foundation that is funding our inaugural Freedomto Write Fellow position, PEN was also able to expand its entire U.N. advocacy program.As an accredited human rights NGO with observer status, PEN routinely protests rightsabuses within the United Nations’ human rights apparatus. With the additional staffresources, PEN was able to make formal representations to the U.N. protesting threatsto writers and freedom of expression in Somalia, Thailand, Venezuela, Syria, Tunisia,South Africa, Bahrain, and Ecuador.FIGHTING FOR WRITERS AROUND THE WORLD2003 Nobel Peace Prize LaureateShirin Ebadi accepting the 2011 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Award on behalfof Nasrin Sotoudeh at the PENLiterary Gala on April 26, 2011PEN acted on behalf of 888 writers in 90 countries in 2011, working to secure theirrelease from prison, forestall harsh treatment, and protect them from threat of arrest,prosecution, or physical attack. Eighty-five of these writers and journalists re gained theirfreedom, including:• Vietnamese writer and PEN American Center Honorary Member Tran Khai ThanhThuy, who was arrested in 2009 and sentenced to three and a half years in prison onPen American center annual report 2011 // 08

trumped-up assault charges. Intense international pressure led to her release in July 2011, and she has since safelyrelocated with her daughter to the United States.• Burmese comedian and poet and PEN American Center Honorary Member Maung Thura, known as Zargana, whowas sentenced to 45 years in prison for criticizing government relief efforts following Cyclone Nargis. Zargana’srelease in October signaled the beginning of a wave of releases of Burmese writers whose cases PEN had beenpressing, including 2010 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award recipient Nay Phone Latt.• Uzbek journalist and PEN American Center Honorary Member Dzamshid Karimov, who was disappeared followinghis coverage of the killing of civilians during demonstrations in the city of Andijan in 2006. It later became clear hewas being jailed in a psychiatric hospital. Karimov was released in November, shortly after a visit by U.S. Secretaryof State Hillary Clinton. PEN had petitioned Clinton to lobby for his release.PEN American Center was honored to present the 2011 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award to NasrinSotoudeh, a writer, lawyer, and leader of the women’s and children’s rights movement in Iran. Sotoudeh, arrested onSeptember 4, 2010, has been imprisoned for her outspoken advocacy in defense of her clients arrested after the June2009 presidential elections. Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, accepted the Award on Sotoudeh’s behalfat the 2011 PEN Literary Gala. Five months after the ceremony, Sotoudeh’s 11-year sentence was reduced to six. Shestill has four years left to serve.THE EMERGENCY FUND FOR WRITERS IN DANGERThis fund assists writers and their families who, because of imprisonment or persecution, are facing serious financialchallenges. Grants are given either for legal help for writers or for emergency sustenance for their families. In the pastyear, the Emergency Fund delivered direct financial assistance to writers from Ethiopia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Iraq,and Cuba.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 09

campaign for core freedomsLaunched in 2003, PEN’s Campaign for Core Freedoms is an advocacy campaign that targets threats to freedom ofexpression posed by anti-terrorism and national security policies in the United States.In 2011, the Campaign focused on three areas of concern:• Curtailing excessive surveillance programs The Campaign for Reader Privacy—PEN’s joint initiative with theAmerican Library Association, the American Booksellers Association, and the Association of American Publishers—continued to work with allies in Congress to press the government to enact legislation that would restore thesafeguards for the privacy of bookstore and library records that were eliminated by Section 215 of the Patriot Act.Meanwhile, a U.S. court of appeals ruled in March that PEN’s lawsuit challenging the NSA’s secret telephone andInternet surveillance program could proceed to trial.• Ending ideological exclusion PEN won an important victory in its efforts to end the practice of denying visas toforeign writers or scholars on political grounds when it received assurances from the U.S. Department of State inJanuary that it will give “significant and sympathetic weight” to applications from writers seeking to fulfill speakingengagements in the United States.• Promoting accountability for human rights abuses PEN’s signature advocacy project for 2011 was the groundbreaking“Reckoning With Torture” film project, a joint initiative of PEN, the ACLU, and acclaimed director Doug Limanthat promotes accountability by encouraging public readings from declassified documents that detail the abuse ofprisoners in U.S. custody since September 11, 2001. Liman staged and filmed “Reckoning” readings at the 2011Sundance Film Festival and at Lincoln Center in New York featuring prominent writers, actors, and former militaryand intelligence officials. PEN is now working with Liman and the ACLU to expand the project into a nationalgrassroots campaign that invites ordinary Americans around the country to stage and film their own “Reckoning”readings and submit the footage for inclusion in a full-length “Reckoning With Torture” film. (Please see the publicprograms section for more information about “Reckoning” events.)Pen American center annual report 2011 // 10

“2011 pen world voices festivalof international literatureclick on grey boxes to jump to mediaThe [PEN World Voices Festival] is a bold reminder that writing is notjust a leisure art resulting in a commodity, but an instrument of change,a tool for probing everything from revolution to the human psyche, anda vital bridge between nations and individuals...the Festival’s characteris really shaped by the dozens of writers less familiar to Americans,introducing audiences to new texts, new experiences, and shared”concerns about human rights and other key issues of our time.—Sarah Montague, producer of WNYC’s “Selected Shorts”“Written On the Water, Heard In the Wind: PEN World Voices Festival”The 2011 PEN World Voices Festival, held April 25 th through May 1 st , featured 150 participants from 30 countries whoshared insights on today’s critical political, social, and cultural matters. Writers such as Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua),Yael Hedaya (Israel), Rula Jebreal (Palestine), Hanif Kureishi (UK), Colum McCann (Ireland), Toni Morrison (US),Amélie Nothomb (Belgium), Vladimir Sorokin (Russia), Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), and Elif Shafak (Turkey) drew attentionto other important writers well known in their own countries but unfamiliar to most Americans.Through the generosity of two major sponsors, PEN World Voices had a geographic center for the first time in 2011:The Standard, New York and the High Line. The majority of international participants lodged at the Standard, and,although events took place all over the city, many were held at the hotel, on the High Line, and in the surroundingcommunity.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 11

“The more than 50 events ranged from programs on the perilous state of free expression in Russia and China, theextraordinary changes in the Arab world, and the issues arising from WikiLeaks’ release of classified information; toperformances by master international storytellers and poets; to a special one-day conference led by Toni Morrison onthe moral responsibility of writer-intellectuals. Morrison said, in her keynote address:As a simultaneous investigation of human character in time, in context, and in space,[literature], in metaphorical and expressive language, organizes the disorientinginfluences of excess of realities, heightened realities, virtual realities…[It] refuses anddisrupts passive or controlled consumption of the spectacle designed to nationalizeidentity in order to sell us products…I sometimes think that authors don’t know howvaluable they are to the culture, to the world, in making language work.”This subject of the responsibility of writers was addressed by many Festival participants: from Wole Soyinka, “Writersand intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overalldevelopment, thus it must be safeguarded”; from the young Arab writers and journalists (paraphrasing), “After the 9/11attacks in the U.S. and the economic turndown in Europe, we realized that we could no longer escape from responsibilityand had to create our own ‘West’ at home”; from Vladimir Sorokin, “In thedays of Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev, and Yeltsin, I was constantly tryingto suppress the responsible citizen in me. I was influenced by the Moscow(artist) underground, where it was common to be apolitical. This was one ofour favorite anecdotes: As German troops marched into Paris, Picasso satthere and drew an apple. That was our attitude – you must sit there and drawyour apple, no matter what happens around you. I held fast to that principleuntil I was 50. Now the citizen in me has come to life.”The Festival drew live audiences of 12,000 and reached more than 250,000people online. The reach of the Festival was extended once again withevents in twelve U.S. cities featuring thirteen up-and-coming internationalwriters, including Yan Lianke (China), Kyung-sook Shin (Korea), Hervé leTellier (France), and Leila Aboulela (Sudan). A majority of Festival events areavailable for download as video or audio files on the PEN website.Vladimir Sorokin signing books after hisconversation with n+1’s Keith Gessen, part of the2011 PEN World Voices FestivalPen American center annual report 2011 // 12

For the first time, PEN created daily Festival e-books (compatible with Kindle, iPhone, iPad, Nook, and most othere-readers), which provided “a literary mixtape” of writing from Festival participants. The seven e-books, which includepieces by Malcolm Gladwell, Arnon Grunberg, Hervé Le Tellier, Carmen Boullosa, Edmund White, Elif Shafak, KyungsookShin, and Vladimir Sorokin, among other writers, are available for download on the PEN website.2011 Festival highlights included:Everything and More: The Pale King by David Foster WallaceApril 26, 2011 - Old GymNovelists Rick Moody and Sandro Veronesi joined editor Michael Pietsch for a consideration of The Pale King, awork left unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace’s death. Karen Green, Wallace’s wife, gave all manuscripts,computer files, and notebooks to Pietsch, who had edited each of Wallace’s books since Infinite Jest. Pietsch thenspent two years piecing together the novel. Moderated by Laura Miller, Salon.com’s book editor, the panel discussedtopics including “the decency of suffering” and Pietsch’s role in creating The Pale King.The conversation is available in its entirety on the PEN website.Abdelkader Benali, Alex Nunns, and Abdellah Taiadiscuss the Egyptian revolution during the 2011PEN World Voices FestivalRevolutionaries in the Arab WorldApril 27, 2011—92 nd St YBefore a full house at the 92 nd St Y, Alex Nunns, editor of Tweets fromTahrir—a collection of key tweets leading to the start of Egyptian revolutionin January 2011—joined Palestinian author/journalist Rula Jebreal(Miral), blogger Issandr El Amrani (The Arabist), Moroccan writer AbdellahTaia, and Moroccan-Dutch writer Abdelkader Benali to explore the recentsweeping political changes in the Arab world. They explored topics such asthe changing role of the public intellectual and how social media and citizenjournalism galvanized the revolution. In the words of Benali: “For the firsttime people are not just whispering ‘no!’ or shouting ‘no!’ in private, they areshouting ‘no!’ in public!”The conversation is available in its entirety on the PEN website.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 13

China in Two ActsApril 28, 2011—The Cooper Union’s Great HallZha Jianying, New Yorker contributor and author of several books in Chineseand English, began the evening with a 30-minute presentation on thepolarized political order and cultural forces that are shaping China now. Afterher remarks, she joined Ian Buruma, nonfiction author and Henry R. LuceProfessor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College; fiction writerYan Lianke of China; Dutch journalist Linda Polman; and American journalistDavid Rieff to discuss topics including the U.S.’s debt to China, China’sreaction to Liu Xiaobo being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, censorship,and the charges against artist Ai Wei Wei. About human rights in China, Zhasaid:“The questions of values and human rights lie notoutside China but in China. And with the Chinesepeople and the Chinese leaders. This is about theirlife and their future. Nowhere else have these issuesbeen debated and fought with as much passion andwith a wider array of positions, the views as polarizedand complicated as the situation. And the charactersinvolved are four dimensional, not black and white.”The conversation is available in its entirety on the PEN website.New Yorker contributor Zha Jianying discussedChina’s “two acts”—the shining public face of itseconomic boom versus the darker, more secretiveworld of growing corruption and human rightsabuses at the 2011 PEN World Voices FestivalAmerican Exile: The Prison IndustryApril 30, 2011—The Cooper UnionThe prison industry has become a profitable social solution. It hides andsilences a disproportionate number of men and women of color. Theirincarcerations, as well as those of political resisters and radicals, purport toisolate dangerous criminal activity from the rest of society, but all too oftenPen American center annual report 2011 // 14

they disguise social injustice. The panel of experts offering ways to reform thisinequitable system of punishment and ever-burgeoning industry included:Michelle Alexander, a longtime civil rights advocate, litigator, and author ofThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness; JohnLonergan, retired governor of Ireland’s Mountjoy Prison; Susan Rosenberg,an American radical political activist, educator, and lecturer for social justice;novelist Shahrnush Parsipur, author of Women Without Men; and moderatorJackson Taylor, Director of the PEN Prison Writing Program.The conversation is available in its entirety on the PEN website.The Sixth Annual Arthur MillerFreedom to Write Lecture: WoleSoyinkaMay 1, 2011— New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos ForumNigerian writer, poet, and playwright Wole Soyinka closed the 2011 PENWorld Voices Festival with the 6 th annual Arthur Miller Freedom to WriteLecture at the New York Public Library’s Celeste Bartos Forum. WNYC’sCulture Producer Julia Furlan reported that “Soyinka used Humpty Dumptyas a metaphor for dictators across nations and cultures, and likened writingto sorcery. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about his speech, though,is the elevated and elegant language he used to address the freedom ofwriters both historically as well as in present day.”Soyinka was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African tobe so honored. In 1994, he was designated UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadorfor the promotion of African culture, human rights, freedom of expression,media, and communication.The lecture is available in its entirety on the PEN website.Wole Soyinka closing the 2011 PEN World VoicesFestival with the 6 th Annual Arthur Miller Freedomto Write LecturePen American center annual report 2011 // 15

PUBLIC PROGRAMSclick on grey boxes to jump to mediaIn 2011, Public Programs worked with many departments within PEN topresent special events that underscored PEN’s mission and featuredacclaimed international and American writers. Highlights included:Reckoning with Torture: Memos andTestimonies from the “War on Terror”Rula Jebreal reading Khaled El-Masri’s accountof his rendition and torture at the staging of“Reckoning with Torture” on May 25, 2011, at theFilm Society of Lincoln CenterTom Stoppard at“Viva the BelarusFree Theater,”a PEN publicprogram held onJanuary 19, 2011,at Le PoissonRougeIn 2011, PEN staged two productions of “Reckoning With Torture: Memosand Testimonies from the War on Terror,” directed by renowned film directorDoug Liman (Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) and filmed fora forthcoming documentary, also directed by Liman. The first performancetook place on January 29th before a sold-out audience at the SundanceFilm Festival in Park City, Utah, and the second on May 24th before a soldouthouse at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Participating writers andactors, side by side with former interrogators and leading human rightsadvocates, read excerpts from formerly secret documents, testimonials, andother primary-source materials. At Sundance, participants included AmericaFerrera, Paul Auster, Annie Proulx, Alex Gibney, George Saunders, NaomiWolf, Esmeralda Santiago, Sandra Cisneros, Jack Rice, and Matt Alexander.In New York, participants included Russell Banks, Col. Morris Davis, NickFlynn, Peter Godwin, Beth Gutcheon, Rula Jebreal, Dahlia Lithwick, JohnBuffalo Mailer, Jack Rice, Lili Taylor, and Dianne Wiest. Artist Jenny Holzer’swork, which incorporates U.S. government documents, provided a backdropto both readings.The Sundance Film Festival production is available in its entirety on thePEN website.Viva the Belarus Free TheaterJanuary 19, 2011—Le Poisson RougeTwo weeks prior to this event, every member of the Belarus Free Theaterwas either in jail or in hiding. Miraculously, they all made it to New YorkPen American center annual report 2011 // 16

to perform their play Being Harold Pinter as part of the Under the RadarFestival. To celebrate the performers’ trip, PEN invited Tom Stoppard, BillyCrudup, Don DeLillo, and others to join the Belarus Free Theater for anevening of literature and music that would draw attention to the outragesof President Alexander Lukashenko, “Europe’s last dictator,” who haspersecuted Belarusian artists and writers. There was a chilling shortplay by Tom Stoppard about government-sponsored terrorism directedtoward writers and journalists, followed by a riveting song, dance, andmime performance portraying the suffering of the Belarus people beneathprojections of horrifying quality of life statistics.This event is available in its entirety on the PEN website.members of the Belarus Free Theater at “Vivathe Belarus Free Theater,” a PEN public programheld on January 19, 2011, at Le Poisson RougeAn Evening with Liao YiwuSeptember 13, 2011— The New School, Tishman AuditoriumPEN American Center was honored to present poet, novelist, musician, anddocumentarian Liao Yiwu, one of China’s most frequently censored writers,in his first U.S. appearance.Liao Yiwu, who has been called the “Studs Terkel of China” for his vividliterary portraits of ordinary Chinese lives, was denied permission to travel toNew York for the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival in the spring of that year,but escaped to Berlin via the Vietnamese border on July 6, 2011. Mr. Liaowas imprisoned for four years in the 1990s for his epic poem “Massacre,” acondemnation of the government’s bloody crackdown at Tiananmen Square,and has endured constant harassment since his release. Though all hisbooks are banned in China, he has continued to write. He visited New Yorkon the eve of the publication of his new book God Is Red: The Secret Storyof How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China, translatedby Wen Huang.Liao Yiwu and Salman Rushdie atYiwu’s first performance in the U.S.Huang, a journalist and author, joined Liao at the event. Not only has Huangbeen working actively to support and publicize Liao Yiwu’s work since 2001,he has translated Liao’s major works into English. Huang received a PENTranslation Fund Grant in 2007.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 17

As PEN President Kwame Anthony Appiah noted, “As it gets harder for independent-minded writers to leave China, anopportunity like this to hear directly from a great Chinese writer is an increasingly precious thing.” This evening of musicand words included a reading from Liao’s forthcoming book and a performance of the xiao, or Chinese flute, which helearned to play while incarcerated. PEN World Voices Festival founder and chair Salman Rushdie introduced the eventand journalist Philip Gourevitch joined Liao for an on-stage interview.This event is available in its entirety on the PEN website.Breakout: Voices from the insideNovember 9, 2011—The National Arts ClubPlease see the Prison Writing Program section for a description of this event.READERS & WRITERSSince 1990, Readers & Writers has brought distinguished PEN writers, who are also dynamic teachers and storytellers,to thousands of students from New York City public high schools and provided them with inspiring reading and writingexperiences. Through Readers & Writers, PEN promotes a broader exchange of ideas essential to culturally vibrantsocieties by giving voice to the youth of underrepresented groups. Our goal is to train and encourage future generationsof cultural participants—new writers and new audiences for literature.Readers & Writers distinguishes itself from other literacy programs by the extraordinary resource of participatingprominent authors; the quality of session content; the emphasis on becoming a writer as well as a reader; and agenerous contribution of books and study materials.Readers & Writers works first and foremost with a select group of New York City public high schools. These PartnerSchools advise PEN staff as they plan each year’s events and activities and participate in the full array of Readers& Writers programming offered each year. In 2011, Partner Schools were: in Brooklyn, Enterprise, Business, andTechnology High School and Brooklyn Secondary School for Collaborative Studies; in the Bronx, Marie Curie HighSchool of Nursing and Dreamyard Preparatory School; and, in Manhattan, A. Philip Randolph High School.In 2011, the program provided approximately 630 students with:• In-School Literary Workshops, presenting a diversity of distinguished authors in writing and reading workshopsPen American center annual report 2011 // 18

focused on issues of interest to New York City teens. Workshops in 2012included “Where is My Voice?,” with poet Geoff Bankowski leading 9thand 10th graders from the Brooklyn Secondary School for CollaborativeStudy through a series of writing exercises culminating in the creationof sensory poems; and “Pain and Truth” with acclaimed memoirist andplaywright Saïd Sayrafiezadeh working with 9th graders from Brooklyn’sEnterprise, Business, and Technology High School following an indepthdiscussion of his memoir When Skateboards Will Be Free, whichthoroughly engaged the students. Other guest authors included TomZoellner, Julie Otsuka, and Moustafa Bayoumi.• Young Scholars and Literature Events, which feature authors in readings,panel discussions, and conversations, followed by Q&A sessions,and provide opportunities for teens to interact one-on-one with theparticipants. Events in 2011 included: “Writing the World: An InterviewProject for High School Journalists” with journalist and science writerRichard Panek, poet Tony Medina, and novelists Natacha Appanahand Dahlma Llanos Figueroa; and “Borough, Barrio, Block: New YorkNeighborhoods and How They Got That Way,” featuring Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, author of Harlem is Nowhere; novelist and former PEN TrusteeEsmeralda Santiago; journalist T.J. English; and writer/performerMichele Carlo, all reflecting on some of the forces—political, social, andhistoric—that have given rise to the city that we currently know.• The PEN Writing Institute, which provides a progressive series of writingworkshops that simulate a professional writers’ workshop experience.Admitted students meet three times per week at the PEN offices forobservational field trips, literature-centered small group meetings, oneon-onereview sessions with professional writers, and creative writingworkshops. Guest writers included Elinor Lipman, Kekla Magoon, CoeBooth, Victoria Brown, and Roger Sedarat. Writing Institute instructorsincluded Geoffrey Bankowski, Stacey Engels, Elana Bell, BrookStephenson, and Jacqueline Jones LaMon.Students from the PEN Writing Instituteexploring Poets House’s collection of manualtypewriters as part of a “literary expedition”The majority of participating students came from Readers & Writers PartnerSchools and a small number of students were selected from other New YorkCity public high schools.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 19

OPEN BOOKThe Open Book program increases the participation of African, Arab, Asian, Caribbean, Latino, and Native Americanwriters within PEN and literary culture at large. In addition to supporting PEN membership outreach, Open Bookpresented the Open Book Award (described in the Literary Awards section) and worked with the editors of PEN’swebsite to recruit editors for special features and produce the Poetry Relay, a series of readings and conversations thatwork to connect contemporary poets to their peers. The relay features a podcast reading by each poet, a conversationthat covers the poet’s inspiration and influences, followed by a hand-off to another poet to continue the series.PRISON WRITINGclick on grey boxes to jump to mediaSince 1973, the Prison Writing Program has provided writing instructionand mentoring services to prisoners nationally, advocated for prisoners’rights in collaboration with the Freedom to Write Program, and producedthe annual PEN Prison Writing Awards, including public celebrityreadings to increase the visibility of award winners. More than 1,500manuscripts were submitted for the 2011 PEN Prison Writing Awardsand a total of 35 prizes were awarded in the categories of Fiction, Drama,Poetry, Nonfiction/Essay, and Memoir. Over the course of the year,the PEN Prison Writing Program distributed more than 8,000 copiesof the PEN Handbook for Writers in Prison free of charge to men andwomen serving sentences in prisons throughout the United States. Theanthology Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing was reprinted with anew forward and updated biographies of the 51 original contributors.When first released, the New York Times said that the collectioncontained “a groping authenticity of language…that encourages us tothink again about prison life.” Words Over Walls: Starting a WritingWorkshop in Prison remains available online and can be downloadedfree of charge.Randall Horton reads PEN Prison WritingAward winner Spoon Jackson’s poem “No Moon”at “Breakout: Voices from the Inside,” the 4thannual PEN Prison Writing Program fundraiserat the National Arts ClubWith the help of a new grant from the Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation,the mentorship program will double the number of mentorships it providesto incarcerated men and women around the country. For the first time,inmates who submitted promising work to the annual prison writingcontest but did not receive an award are able to receive instruction fromprofessional writers.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 20

Public Prison Writing events in 2011 included:Breakout: Voices from the InsideOctober 9, 2011—The National Arts ClubAt the fourth annual fundraiser for the Prison Writing Program, three former prisoners took part in a panel discussionbefore an audience of 300, reflecting on the vital role that literature played in surviving their incarcerations. Mel Williams,who completed a 15-year sentence just six days before the event, spoke of the discovery he made about himselfduring a prison poetry class: that he is a poet and he is passionate about Shakespeare (“He’s my bible now”). SusanRosenberg, whose memoir An American Radical: A Political Prisoner in My Own Country was recently published,became a poet and author during her 16 years in prison. Randall Horton served almost five years in prison and is theauthor of two poetry collections, The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street and The Definition of Place. Williams, Horton, andRosenberg joined other writers— including poets Cara Benson, Hettie Jones, and Marie Ponsot; novelists John PaulInfante and Tiphanie Yanique; literary agent and Prison Writing Chair Claudia Menza; and Prison Writing ProgramDirector Jackson Taylor— for a reading of prize-winning stories and poems from the PEN Prison Writing Contest. PrisonWriting Committee member Cara Benson, who teaches poetry at the Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility in upstate NewYork, produced the program.The event is available in its entirety on the PEN website.INTERNATIONAL PROGRamLondon-based PEN International serves as the official secretariat of PEN centers in more than 100 countries around theworld. For several years, PEN American Center, the largest of all the centers, has partnered with PEN International toincrease the organization’s capacity to carry out its mission of promoting literature and defending freedom of expressionon the ground in every region of the world. Over the past year, with a grant from the Ford Foundation to support theinaugural Freedom to Write Fellow, Deji Olukotun, PEN American Center was able to help PEN International expandPEN’s advocacy role at the United Nations on critical policy issues and also assist PEN centers in Russia, Haiti, SouthAfrica, and Mexico in building their capacity to more effectively confront serious challenges to writers and freedom ofexpression in their countries.Following a resolution at the 2011 PEN Congress in Serbia in September, PEN American Center has also beenspearheading an effort to help PEN’s global membership respond to the unique challenges of free expression in theinformation age. PEN American Center has prepared the PEN International Draft Declaration on Free Expression andDigital Technologies—a concise statement of PEN’s approach to issues such as digital surveillance and corporatehuman rights abuses—that will be presented for approval by the organization’s global membership at the PEN Congressin Korea in September 2012.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 21

PEN AMERICA: A JOURNALFOR WRITERS AND READERSFor twelve years, PEN American Center’s award-winning literary journal has expanded the reach of the organization’sprograms by documenting, interpreting, and preserving evidence of PEN’s important literary and human-rightsaccomplishments. PEN America publishes adapted transcripts of conversations, literary tributes, and talks deliveredat the PEN World Voices Festival and other PEN events along with fiction, poetry, memoir, and essays by authors andtranslators whose work has been recognized by PEN Literary Awards, Prison Writing Awards, and Translation Fund grants.In 2011, PEN America published two issues. “The Good Books,” Issue 14,asked writers and readers to imagine they’d been invited to the world’sgreatest book swap: “At this make-believe event, you’ll join writers andreaders from around the world in on one place (where? when? you tell us)and you’ll bring a beloved book to trade.” Since literary translations make uponly 3 percent of what gets published in the U.S. and since PEN is devoted tofostering global understanding, we encouraged forum participants to choosea book originally published in a language other than English. The journalpublished literary appreciations by more than fifty writers, including RabihAlameddine, Karen Russell, Eileen Myles, Binnie Kirshenbaum, WayneKoestenbaum, Srikanth Reddy, Jessica Hagedorn, Amitava Kumar, Paul LaFarge,Yiyun Li, David Shields, Meena Alexander, and Gary Shteyngart.Issue 15, entitled “Maps,” looks at the ways we organize and visualizeinformation. The issue begins with a forum of personal essays by bothemerging and established writers including Billy Collins, Heidi Julavits,Colum McCann, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Susan Bernofsky, Ishion Hutchinson,and Amitava Kumar. “Maps” also includes memoir by Mahmoud Darwish,Binyavanga Wainaina, Elif Shafak, and Yvette Louisell, a young womanserving life in prison; fiction by Aleksandar Hemon, Danielle Evans, SamantaSchweblin, and Elvira Dones; poetry by Adonis, Jennifer Tseng, and CrystalWilliams; drama by David Henry Hwang; and appreciations of and by theincomparable Roger Angell. As we investigate mapping from a variety ofperspectives, PEN America continued its tradition of publishing remarkableart—this time by Matthew Cusick, Wendy MacNaughton, Miru Kim, andother daring young artists.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 22

LITERARY AWARDSThe 2011 PEN Literary Awards were presented on October 12 th in Proshansky Auditorium at the Graduate Center,CUNY, in New York City. Many of this year’s winners, judges, and speakers were in attendance, including AndréAciman, Roger Angell, Susan Cheever, Aleksandar Hemon, Nicole Krauss, Phillip Lopate, Stacy Schiff, Lizzie Skurnick,and Mark Slouka.PEN presented 17 awards, with prizes ranging from $1,660 to $25,000, including one that was revived after a five-yearhiatus, the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Three awards were offered for the first time:the PEN Emerging Writers Awards, the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and the PEN/ESPN LifetimeAchievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. Through the generosity of the award sponsors, PEN distributed nearly$150,000 in 2011 to some of the most gifted writers, editors, and translators working today.PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize ($25,000) honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a firstnovel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise. The2011 Bingham Prize was shared by two writers: Susanna Daniel for Stiltsville (Harper Perennial) and Danielle Evansfor Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Riverhead).PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award ($10,000) recognizes a distinguished book of literary nonfictionon the subject of the physical or biological sciences. The inaugural award was presented to Siddhartha Mukherjeefor The Emperor of All Maladies (Scribner).PEN/W. G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career ($10,000) recognizes a mid-career author who haspublished at least three significant works of literary fiction. The 2011 recipient was Aleksandar Hemon.PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction ($10,000) is a biennial award that recognizes a distinguishedbook of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective, in addition to illuminatingimportant contemporary issues. The 2011 award went to Robert Perkinson for Texas Tough: The Rise of America’sPrison Empire (Metropolitan Books).PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards ($7,500) honor a master American dramatist andan American playwright in mid-career. David Henry Hwang was recognized with the Master American DramatistAward for his body of work, including the plays FOB, M. Butterfly, and Chinglish. Marcus Gardley, whose playsinclude On the Levee and every tongue confess, was honored with the Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career, and received the $7,500 prize.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 23

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay ($5,000) recognizes a distinguished book of essaysthat exemplifies the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature. The 2011 award went to MarkSlouka for Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations (Graywolf Press).PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing ($5,000) recognizes a distinguished book on sports published in theUnited States. The 2011 award went to George Dohrmann for Play Their Hearts Out (Ballantine Books).PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Sports Writing ($5,000) honors a living American or U.S. basedwriter whose body of work represents an exceptional contribution to the field of literary sports writing. The inauguralaward was given to Roger Angell.PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ($5,000) recognizesa distinguished biography possessing notable literary merit. The 2011 awardwinner was Stacy Schiff for Cleopatra: A Life (Little, Brown & Company).PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry ($5,000) is presented in oddnumberedyears to an emerging American poet showing promise of furtherliterary achievement. Ishion Hutchinson was presented with the 2011 awardfor Far District (Peepal Tree Press Ltd.).PEN/Nora Magid Award ($5,000) honors a magazine editor whose highliterary standards and taste have contributed significantly to the excellenceof the publication he or she edits. The 2011 award went to Brigid Hughes,the founding editor of A Public Space.PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship ($5,000) provides ayoung adult or children’s book author with financial support to help completea book-length work in progress. The 2011 Fellowship went to Lucy Frank forTwo Girls Staring at the Ceiling, a novel in verse.PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000) is given for a book-lengthtranslation of poetry. The 2011 award went to Khaled Mattawa for Adonis:Selected Poems (Yale University Press, The Margellos World Republic ofLetters Series).Roger Angell accepting the inaugural PEN/ESPNLifetime Achievement Award for Sports Writingat the 2011 PEN Literary Awards CeremonyPen American center annual report 2011 // 24

PEN Translation Prize ($3,000) is awarded for a distinguished book-length translation from any language intoEnglish prose. The 2011 prize went to Ibrahim Muhawi for Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish(Archipelago Books).PEN Emerging Writers Awards (Three awards of $1,660 each) recognize a fiction writer, nonfiction writer, andpoet who show exceptional talent but have not yet published a book-length work. The fiction prize went to SmithHenderson, the nonfiction prize was presented to David Stuart MacLean, and Adam Day was recognized with thepoetry award.PEN Open Book Award ($5,000) is sponsored by the PEN Open Book Program, which strives to increase theparticipation of African, Arab, Asian, Caribbean, Latino, and Native American writers within PEN and theliterary culture at large. This award celebrates gifted authors whose exceptional works often do not attract theexposure they need or deserve. The 2011 PEN Open Book Award winner was Manu Joseph for Serious Men(W. W. Norton & Company).TRANSLATION FUND GRANTSThe PEN Translation Fund supports the translation of book-length works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and dramathat have not previously appeared in English or have appeared only in an outdated or otherwise flawed translation. In2011, the PEN Translation Fund Committee was chaired by Michael Moore, and the judges were David Bellos, SusanBernofsky, Edwin Frank, Michael Reynolds, Natasha Wimmer, and Jeffrey Yang. Grants of $3,000 each were awardedto the following:• Amiri Ayanna for her translation from Middle High German of The St. KatharinentalSister Book: Lives of the Sisters of the Dominican Convent at Diessenhofen• Neil Blackadder for his translation from the German of The Test (Good SimonKorach), a play by Swiss dramatist and novelist Lukas Bärfuss• Clarissa Botsford for her translation from the Italian of Sworn Virgin, a novel byAlbanian writer and filmmaker Elvira Dones• Steve Bradbury for his translation from the Chinese of Salsa, a collection of poemsby Taiwanese poet Hsia Yü• Annmarie S. Drury for her translation from the Swahili of Selected Poems ofEuphrase KezilahabiPen American center annual report 2011 // 25

• Diane Nemec Ignashev for her translation from the Russian of Paranoia, a novel byBelarusian author Viktor Martinovich• Chenxin Jiang for her translation from the Chinese of Memories of the Cowshed, amemoir by Chinese author Ji Xianlin• Hilary B. Kaplan for her translation from the Portugese of Rilke Shake, a collectionof poetry by Brazilian writer Angélica Freitas• Catherine Schelbert for her translation from the German of Flametti, or the Dandyismof the Poor, a novel by German writer Hugo Ball• Joel Streicker for his translation from the Spanish of Birds in the Mouth, a collectionof short stories by Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin• Sarah L. Thomas for her translation from the Spanish of Turnaround, a literarythriller by Spanish writer Mar Goméz GlezTHE PEN/O. HENRY PRIZE STORIESSince 1919, twenty stories have been chosen each year for the annual publication of the O. Henry Prize Storiescollection, whose mission is to strengthen the art of the short story. Now in partnership with PEN, the PEN/O. HenryPrize Stories collection continues the tradition of recognizing excellence in the short story and encouraging writers andreaders alike to celebrate the form. The judges for the 2011 prize were A.M. Homes, Manuel Muñoz, and ChristineSchutt. The anthology was edited by Laura Furman.The following writers received this honor in 2011:Chris AdrianKenneth CalhounJennine Capó CrucetJane DeluryTamas DobozyJudy DoengesBrian EvensonAdam FouldsLynn FreedDavid MeansSusan MinotMatthew Neill NullLori OstlundLeslie ParryJim ShepardHelen SimpsonMark SloukaElizabeth TallenTLily TuckBrad WatsonPen American center annual report 2011 // 26

MEMBERSHIPA significant adjustment to PEN American Center’s by-laws occurred in 2011 when the Board of Trustees voted andagreed to change PEN’s eligibility requirements for becoming a Professional Member. Whereas previously authors,playwrights, and screenwriters had to have multiple books published or plays produced in order to be eligible to joinPEN, the new requirements stipulate that those with at least one published book or one play produced in a professionalsetting would be eligible. As a result, PEN witnessed a rise in the number new members, including highly acclaimedemerging novelists, poets, and playwrights, in the second half of 2011. In addition, the change in eligibility requirementsmeans that now editors, agents, and publishers, and those who have made a significant contribution to the publishingindustry have also joined PEN’s ranks, adding their talents, tastes, and specific skills to illustrate the diversity of PEN’sMembership throughout the literary communityIn addition, it was determined that PEN Members will have a one-yeargrace period following the expiration of their membership in which to submittheir dues payment. After a year of nonpayment, they will be consideredlapsed Members who are no longer in good standing. Previously, thegrace period has been three years. PEN’s Membership numbers declinedas a result of no longer including lapsed Members in its roster of activeMembers. In December 2011, PEN American Center had more than 2,200Members, including many of the most distinguished and influential membersof the American literary community from novelists, nonfiction writers,poets, essayists, playwrights, and journalists to translators, academics,editors, and literary agents. Associate Members, those belonging to thenonprofessional tier of Membership, totaled more than 800. This group ofcommitted supporters has been indispensable to PEN, providing a broadbase of volunteers and online activists who share PEN’s core values.Chair of the PEN Membership Committeeand PEN Trustee John Oakes with AbigailWelhouse and Fern Diaz of OR Books at the2011 New Members, New Books partyMany Members are continuing PEN’s nearly 90-year-old activist tradition byparticipating in human rights work and literary programming. More than 200Members sat on the committees that guide the organization and hundredsmore participated in advocacy casework that directly affected the lives ofpersecuted and imprisoned writers. This year, more than 100 Membersparticipated in public programs, including the PEN World Voices Festival;hundreds contributed writing to PEN.org and PEN America: A Journal forWriters and Readers; and thousands signed petitions and were active inPEN’s freedom of expression advocacy campaigns.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 27

NEW MEMBERS NEW BOOKSOn January 11, 2011, John Oakes, Chair of PEN American Center’s Membership Committee, welcomed 134 newMembers at the annual New Members New Books Party, held at powerHouse Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn, to celebratethose who joined PEN in 2010. On November 1, 2011, K. Anthony Appiah and the entire Membership Committeewelcomed 184 new Members at 2011’s New Members New Books Party, which was also held at powerHouse Arena.At both events, hundreds of Members and their guests were in attendance to meet with fellow authors, translators, andeditors, as well as PEN American Center staff.MEMBERSHIP OUTREACHIn addition to the change of the by-laws and the subsequent expansion of PEN American Center’s Membership, PENsponsored opportunities for its members to connect and provided important gathering places for the literary communityand the reading public during writers’ conferences and book festivals. PEN American Center host ed tables and boothsat the Brooklyn Book Festival (Brooklyn, NY, September 18, 2011); the Association of Writers & Writing ProgramsConference (Washington D.C., February 2-5, 2011); and BookExpo America (New York, NY, May 24-26, 2011).In addition, PEN hosted several intimate cocktail receptions in its office in SoHo in order to cultivate relationships withnew members. In particular, PEN invited MFA students and program directors in anticipation of the AWP conference.PEN also escalated its social media outreach, primarily through Facebook and Twitter, and saw steady growth infollowers interested in being a part of PEN’s digital community.MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEESCreated by PEN Members, Membership Committees assume a number of forms, from informal meetings to readingsto public discussions. Information about the four principal PEN Member Committees—Children’s/Young Adult BookAuthors, Open Book, Prison Writing, and Translation—is presented in their respective sections of this report. In addition,the Women’s Literary Workshop was founded twenty years ago by its current chair, Ilsa Gilbert. In 2011, the Workshopmet nine times and hosted its annual readings and reception at the PEN office on September 26, 2011.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 28

CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULTBOOK AUTHORS PROGRAMThe Children’s/Young Adult Book Authors Committee supports writers of work for children and young adults as well asschool librarians. The Committee has a particular interest in banned or challenged books and invites reports of anysuch actions so that a prompt response can be made. Please contact Committee Chair Susanna Reich at info@pen.org to make a report.In 2011, the Committee:click on grey boxes to jump to media• Continued its strong partnership with the Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School, the only school in New Orleans’Ninth Ward to survive Hurricane Katrina, providing authors for school programs. The Committee was honored toreceive a “Drum Major of Education” award at the school’s gala in New Orleans. Committee members Robie Harris,Elizabeth Levy, Fatima Shaik, and Susan Kuklin published The Story Is Us! in collaboration with students from theschool in 2009.• Hosted monthly meetings on topics of interest to writers of children’s literature, including “Found in Translation,” aconversation about the state of translated children’s books in the U.S., led by Scholastic editor Cheryl Klein, and adiscussion on “Books for Boys” led by PEN member Robert Lipsyte.• Produced Public Programs such as “Writing Dangerously” (February 7, 2011, Instituto Cervantes), in which fourchildren’s and young adult authors discussed how they approach controversial subjects, challenge convention, andconfront the psychological risks of the creative process.“Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Charter School Honorsthe New York Children’sCommittee of PEN AmericanCenter for supporting theAuthors Program”Text from a plaque awarding a “Drum Majorof Education” Award to the Children’s/YoungAdults Book Authors Committee• Sponsored programs at the PEN World Voices Festival, such as the panel“Who Tells the Story? Children’s Book Writers Talk About Voice,” at whichpanelists discussed finding an authentic voice for a young character.• The Committee mourns the loss of its former chair and PEN Board memberSteven Kroll and was honored by Steven’s generous bequest to PEN, whichfunded the PEN/Steven Kroll Award for an American or U.S.-based writerof an exceptional text illustrated in a children’s book, to be presented forthe first time in 2012. The Committee also helps to administer the annualPEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship for a work-in-progress by anauthor of fiction for children or young adults, which in 2011 was awarded toLucy Frank.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 29

TRANSLATION COMMITTEEclick on grey boxes to jump to mediaThe PEN Translation Committee, chaired by Susan Bernofsky, has an ongoing commitment to promoting the recognitionof American translators through public forums, awards, and the annual World in Translation Month celebration eachMay. The Committee also works to uphold the rights of translators by appealing on behalf of those who are censoredor persecuted, and through the initiatives of the Watchdog Subcommittee, which monitors the publishing industry andmedia to ensure that translators are given full and public credit for their work.In 2011, the committee met bimonthly to discuss new initiatives and programming opportunities that foster an appreciationof literature in translation and help translators find the resources they need.Over the course of the year, the Committee:• Hosted a workshop on Translation Contract Issues with intellectual property attorney Erach Screwvala• Produced “Translator Rights/Translator Wrongs,” a panel on copyright/contract issues, at the 2011 PEN WorldVoices Festival• Produced the “Translation Slam” at the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival• Revised the “Model Contract for Translators” and continued writing “Guidelines for Reviewers of Translations” forPEN.org• Provided blog posts about translation for The Daily PEN AmericanPen American center annual report 2011 // 30

PEN WRITERS’ FUNDThrough the generous support of the Lannan Foundation and PEN Members, the PEN Writers’ Fund gives grants ofup to $2,000 to writers, editors, translators, and other literary professionals in acute financial crisis. From January 2011through December 2011, the Committee allocated $57,454 to 39 applicants suffering from a range of medical andprofessional emergencies.Recipients included: a playwright and theater company founder in danger of a utility shutoff that would prevent hishome dialysis treatment; a hearing impaired journalist and AIDS activist in need of new hearing aids; a young sciencewriter working on a book about frontotemporal dementia whose PEN grant helped with living expenses so she couldcontinue to assist her mother who suffers from this condition; and a fiction writer and past Guggenheim Fellow facingeviction whose PEN grant allowed him to continue to provide a home for his daughter and two young grandchildren inhis care.In 2011, the Writers’ Fund Committee continued outreach efforts within the literary community to encourage writers inneed to apply.PEN.ORGclick on grey boxes to jump to mediaPEN.org is the primary point of interaction among PEN’s advocacy and cultural programming, its core constituencies,and the general public. Visitors from around the world come to the PEN website to find fiction, poetry, essays, articles,and dramatic writing from some of the world’s most provocative writers. In addition to audio and video of PEN’s publicprograms, visitors also come to PEN.org to find advocacy resources.In 2011, PEN.org attracted 2.4 million visitors worldwide. Recent video production and dissemination has resulted in anexplosion of traffic and followings for PEN on social media platforms such as Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube, andFlickr. PEN has effectively become a powerful micro-publisher of literary translations, domestic literature, podcasts,video casts, and human rights advocacy news and information.In 2011, PEN videos were watched more than 201,000 times on YouTube. Through YouTube, we have been able tobroadcast PEN programming around the world to China, Iran, Egypt, Turkey, and dozens of other countries. During thisyear’s PEN World Voices Festival, we were able to record, edit, and post more than 30 events.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 31

PEN.org’s communication strategy aims at broadcasting PEN’s human rights and cultural programming to an evergrowingnational and international audience.In addition to the YouTube broadcasts mentioned above, highlights included:• Podcasts/Audio: Over 150,000 podcasts of PEN programming were downloaded every month. The site regularlypodcasts two PEN programs per week.• Monthly E-Newsletter: We currently have an email list of over 14,700 subscribers who have signed up for ongoingnews and information about PEN’s programming and human rights advocacy.• Media Partnerships: PEN delivered audio recordings of Festival events to be broadcast as podcasts from WNYCNew York Public Radio’s website.• Social Media: PEN.org’s social media platforms actively engage ever-expanding global literary and advocacycommunities by publishing breaking news, campaign updates, calls to action, podcasts, and new literature. In 2011PEN almost tripled the number of its Twitter followers to over 11,300, including The New Yorker’s Book Bench,Margaret Atwood, and Colson Whitehead.Our Facebook timeline connected our 5,500 followers to a curated feed of PEN literature, multimedia, and events.PEN’s Tumblr feed, a curated micro blog of news, multimedia, and quotes, was regularly showcased by Tumblr’seditors pushing PEN American Center to the forefront of Tumblr’s literary and advocacy communities. PEN’s Tumblrfeed is already ranked as one of the best literary Tumblrs by The Millions .WEBSITE OVERHAULWith the generous support of The Carnegie Corporation of New York, Google Inc, and the Board of Trustees,PEN American Center is currently undertaking a complete overhaul of PEN.org, the primary point of interactionamong PEN’s advocacy and cultural programming, its core constituencies, and the general public. In addition todelivering PEN content to a growing variety of digital devices in a format that will make the site easier to navigateand the pages more easily shared across social networks, the new multimedia platform will also enhance ouradvocacy tools and the capability to tie into, archive, and link current and past advocacy campaigns, making iteasier for advocates, supporters of PEN, and the press to access the timely and historic information they contain.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 32

The overhaul will make thousands of pages of articles, essays, interviews, poetry, dramatic writing, and events fromPEN’s 90-year history more readily available to PEN’s audience. Nearly all of PEN’s content from the last eight yearsis digital. These documents—text, video, and audio—depict the organization’s current and historical efforts to promoteliterature and literary translation and to defend freedom of expression around the world. They serve as a compellingrecord of the organization’s longstanding advocacy of imprisoned and persecuted writers and of freedom of expressioncampaigns.We are excited to mark PEN’s 90th anniversary in 2012 by strengthening and expanding PEN.org’s capacity to broadcastPEN’s distinct message and content to as broad an international audience as possible.PEN AMERICAN CENTER BRANCHESThe three regional branches of PEN American Center give voice to Members nationwide and provide opportunities fordirect engagement in the causes PEN cares about most.PEN NEW ENGLANDIn 2011, PEN’s New England chapter once again produced a full andremarkable calendar of events promoting a culture of literature, defendingfreedom of expression, and celebrating the region’s literary community.Highlights included: “Lyrics & Literature,” a conversation with Paul Simon,Paul Muldoon, and Bill Flanagan; the announcement of PEN New England’sPrize for “Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence”; the monthly Writers Seriesfeaturing conversations between Christopher Lydon and guest authors fromNew England such as such as Edith Pearlman, Andre Dubus III, RosannaWarren, Nicholson Baker, Paul Harding, and Henri Cole; the expansion ofPrison Writing Workshops with an increased corps of volunteer teachers; aliterary celebration of the 50th anniversary of Cape Cod’s National Seashorefeaturing Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Alice Hoffman, Dale Peterson,Steven Pinker, and Richard Russo; and the presentation of annual literaryawards, including:• The PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fictionclick on grey boxes to jump to mediaPaul Simon performing during “Lyrics& Literature,” a PEN New England eventfeaturing Simon in conversation withPaul Muldoon and Bill Flanagan• The PEN New England/Winship Awards for best New England fiction,non-fiction, and poetryPen American center annual report 2011 // 33

• The Susan P. Bloom Awards, presented at the 13th Annual Children’s Book Discovery evening• The Henry David Thoreau Prize for literary excellence in nature writing, presented to scientist and author EdwardO. Wilson• The Howard Zinn “People Speak” Award presented to Wendell BerryAll of this and a lot more…including a new home for PEN New England headquarters at MIT, with exciting possibilitiesfor creative collaborations between the PEN and MIT communities.PEN WESTPEN West hosted seven events in the 2011 season, featuring Helen Benedict, Michael David Lukas, Yiyun Li, LynnStegner, Ron Hansen, Dan Bellm, Sandra Gilbert, and Cecile Pineda. Its annual party celebrating PEN members andassociates who published books during the year was held June 22nd at the home of PEN West President BrendaWebster. Among the many honorees were Bill Broder, Paula Fass, Joan Frank, Anne O. Fisher, Sandra M. Gilbert,Arlie Hochchild, Ron Hansen, Ericka Lutz, Mary Mackey, Mary Jo McConahay, Edie Meidav, Deborah Mitchell, VictoriaNelson, Larry Rothe, and Victoria Zackheim. About 50 people attended. PEN West is planning a Freedom to WriteEvent with PEN member Michael David Lukas for next year.PEN NORTHWESTPEN Northwest administers the annual Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, the only extended backcountryresidency in the United States. In exchange for routine caretaking, the resident receives the profound solitudeof a remote homestead in Oregon’s Rogue River Canyon and the support of a $5,000 stipend. The 2011 resident, poetand fiction writer Josie Sigler, was highly productive during her six month residency and is now finishing her PhD at theUniversity of Southern California.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 34

IN MEMORIAMPEN mourned the loss of several members in 2011:Henry CarlisleSeymour EpsteinIsabel GlassJeannette HopkinsSteven KrollRomulus LinneySidney LumetSverre LyngstadMorris PhilipsonHazel RowleyEvery effort has been made to ensure that this list is complete. If you know of a PEN member who has passed away inthe past year and who is not listed here, please contact us so we can remember him or her in our next report.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 35

FY 11 FINANCIAL REPORTINCOMEContributionsFundraising Benefits (net)Membership DuesParticipant Fees & PurchasesInvestment IncomeMiscellaneousTotal IncomeEXPENSES BY CATEGORY79 %$1,941,547762,101243,395134,13814,4355,281$3,100,897PROGRAMSADMINISTRATION$2,436,0236 % $191,63679 %PROGRAMS$2,436,023EXPENSESPersonnelProgram ConsultantsEvent & Development ConsultantsProfessional & Administrative FeesRent & OccupancyOffice Supplies & ExpenseElectronic CommunicationsPrint CommunicationsAwards, Grants & Other SupportEvent & Meeting ExpenseTravelBook Purchases & DistributionOther Program ExpenseOther Administrative ExpenseTotal Expenses Before DepreciationSurplus (Deficit) After DepreciationDepreciationTotal Expense After DepreciationSurplus (Deficit) After Depreciation$1,496,640204,52635,86099,034199,26030,08267,365159,558277,288234,010220,8735,82321,28320,098$3,071,700$29,197$51,4403,123,140$(22,243)ADMINISTRATION6 %FUNDRAISING$191,63615 % $444,041FUNDRAISING15 % $444,041100 %100 %EXPENSES BEFORE DEPRECIATION$3,071,700EXPENSES BEFORE DEPRECIATION$3,071,700The financial information shown above representsunrestricted operating activity for the twelve months fromJanuary to December, 2011 and has been derived fromour 2011 audited financial statements, which are availablefrom PEN upon request.Pen American center annual report 2011 // 36

donorsA list of contributions to PEN American Center from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2011 follows. Contributorsinclude PEN Members (*) and Associate Members (˚) who contributed above membership dues, trustees, individuals,foundations, corporations, and government agencies. Contributions have been designated for the 2011 PEN LiteraryGala, the 2011 PEN Authors’ Evenings, the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival, the 2011 Literary Awards, specific PENprograms, and the PEN general fund. We are enormously grateful to all those who have supported PEN’s work and aredelighted to acknowledge their generosity.$400,000 and aboveThe Kaplen Foundation$100,000 - $250,000Hachette Book Group; Open Society Institute/The Foundation to Promote Open Society$50,000 - $99,999The Ford Foundation; The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust; The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; The LannanFoundation; Steven* & Ann Pleshette Murphy; National Endowment for the Arts; Random House, Inc.; John* &Louisa Troubh; Davis Weinstock & Elizabeth Hawes Weinstock*; The Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation$25,000 - $49,999Amazon.com; Atlas & Co.; Joan Bingham*; Carnegie Corporation of New York; ESPN; The R.S. Evans Foundation;Wendy Gimbel* & Douglas Liebhafsky; Instituto Cervantes; Barbara Kingsolver; The Arthur Loeb Foundation; OtherPress; Penguin Group (USA); The Arthur Ross Foundation; Annette Tapert* & Joseph Allen; Thomson Reuters;Anonymous$15,000 - $24,999Roger Altman & Jurate Kazickas; Clara Bingham*; Bloomberg; Condé Nast Publications; Barbaralee DiamonsteinSpielvogel*; FJC- A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds; Institusjonen Fritt Ord; Barbara L. Goldsmith*/The BarbaraL. Goldsmith Foundation; The Marc Haas Foundation; HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.; Steven & Barbara Isenberg;Laurence J.* & Barbara Kirshbaum; Vanessa Lilly; Macmillan; New York State Council on the Arts- a state agency;The New Yorker; The Royal Norwegian Consulate General; The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater;Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature; Simon & Schuster; The Sundance InstituteDocumentary Film Program; Danielle Truscott & Andrew H. Kaufman; The Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation;Anonymous*PEN Members˚ Associate MembersPen American center annual report 2011 // 37

$10,000 - $14,999Austrian Consulate General; Barnes & Noble Booksellers; BNY Mellon; Barbara & Ray Dalio; The Diller-vonFurstenberg Family Foundation; Disney-ABC Television Group; Roxanne Donovan & Tom Scarangello; Toni K.* &James Goodale; The Jerome L. Greene Foundation; HBO; Houghton Mifflin Company; Mr. & Mrs. Seward Johnson;The Leon Levy Foundation; Elizabeth & Christian Oberbeck˚; The Reed Foundation; Alice Sebold*; The Alvin andFanny B. Thalheimer Foundation; Trust for Mutual Understanding; Eva & John Usdan; Jacqueline Weld* & RodmanDrake; Anonymous$5,000 - $9,999Helen Bodian & Roger Alcaly; Maria B.* & Woodrow Campbell; City University of New York/ Chancellor MatthewGoldstein; Consulate General of Sweden; Vivian Donnelley; Susan Dryfoos*; The Edinburgh Book Festival;Leigh Feldman*/The Feldman Family Fund Inc.; Dorothea Frank; Edwin A. & Lorna Goodman; Grove/Atlantic,Inc.; Beth Gutcheon* & Robin Clements; The International Freedom to Publish Committee of the Association ofAmerican Publishers on behalf of the Jeri Laber Prize; Istituto Italiano di Cultura; Joan K. Davidson* (The J.M.Kaplan Fund); John & Tina Keker; Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte & Kristin Kusama; Eric Lax*; Yvonne & Michael Marsh;The New York Review of Books; Tess O’Dwyer*; Debra Perelman & Gideon Cil; Perseus Books LLC; Bruno* & MaryAnn Quinson; Roxana* & Hamilton Robinson; Daniel & Joanna Rose; Simon Schama*; Mimi Sternlicht; The EdnaWardlaw Charitable Trust; Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation; The Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation; Barrie & DeedeeWigmore; William Morris Endeavor Entertainment$1,000 - $4,999Bruce W. Addison; Liaquat Ahamed*; The American Ireland Fund; Kwame Anthony Appiah*; Stuart Applebaum; TheAtlantic Philanthropies Director/Employee Designated Gift Fund; Angelica* & Euan Baird; Russell Banks*; HyattBass*; Louis Begley*; Stephen Benedek; Jill Braufman & Daniel Nir; Perdita & Edward L. Burlingame*; CandaceBushnell*; Michael V. Carlisle* & Dr. Sally Peterson; Gregory C. Carroll; Mr. & Mrs. Monty Cerf; Ron Chernow*;Joel Conarroe*; Culture Ireland; Don DeLillo*; The Dobkin Family Foundation; John K. Doyle˚ & Judy Crawford˚;Inger McCabe Elliott; The Charles Engelhard Foundation; Morgan Entrekin*; Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Evans; Mr. &Mrs. Henry Fownes; Anna Frajlich-Zajac/PEN Centre for Writers in Exile; Barbara P. Gimbel; Jim Glanzer˚; LynnGoldberg*/Goldberg McDuffie Communications; Mr. & Mrs. Michael Golden; Marshall Goldin & Jo Ann Goldin; Peter& Aliette Goldmark; Angeline Goreau*; Michael Graff & Carol Ostrow; Christopher Grisanti & Suzanne Fawbush;Agnes Gund & Daniel Shapiro; Marlene Hess & James D. Zirin; Mr. & Mrs. Warren Hoge; Mr. & Mrs. CharlesHoppin˚; Susan Isaacs*; Gloria Joseph; Wendy Kaminer*; Betsy Karel; Edmund Keeley*; Mr. & Mrs. Harris L.Kempner, Jr.; Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Kempner, Jr.; Eleanora & Michael Kennedy; Mr. & Mrs. Breene M. Kerr; SusanC. Krysiewicz & Thomas Bell; Nathan Leventhal & Katherine Brown; Jeanne Levy-Church; Harper’s Magazine/John*PEN Members˚ Associate MembersPen American center annual report 2011 // 38

R. MacArthur*; Jeff MacGregor*; Estate of William Marchant; Marie Claire Magazine; Wesley McCain˚ & NoreeneStorrie˚; Mr. & Mrs. Henry McGee˚; Mr. & Mrs. Jason McManus; Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Menschel; Mr. & Mrs. WilliamJ. Michaelcheck˚; David Michaelis*; James Mintz & Deborah Stewart; Garrett & Mary Moran; Mr. & Mrs. HansMorris; Barbara S. Mosbacher; Peter Nadin & Anne Kennedy; Lynn Nesbit; Mr. & Mrs. Mark Newhouse; CarolineNiemczyk; NYC & Company, Inc.; John G. H. Oakes* & Karin Cuoni; Kelly & Jerry Pasciucco; Mr. & Mrs. JeffreyPeek; Holly Peterson; Susanna Porter & James Clark; Walter Pozen; Mr. & Mrs. James Price; Quebec GovernmentOffice; Elizabeth Rea˚; Theresa Rebeck*; Victoria Redel*; Frank Richardson & The Honorable Kimba Wood; Estateof Harvena Richter; Wanda Root; Mr. & Mrs. Michael Rudell; Gerald Ruttenberg & Perri Peltz; Jeannette WatsonSanger* & Alexander Sanger; Mr. & Mrs. Peter Scannell; Lawrence Schiller*; Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Schlosser; RalphSchlosstein & Jane Hartley; M. David Sherrill; Gil Shiva; Clinton Ives Smullyan Jr.˚; Mr. & Mrs. David Solomon˚;Shelly & David Sonenberg; The Standard, New York; Paul Steiger & Wendy Brandes; Mr. & Mrs. Michael Steinberg;George Stephanopoulos; James Stevenson & Josephine Merck; Benjamin Taylor*; Mary Ann Tighe & Dr. DavidHildalgo; Mr. & Mrs. Donald Tober; Mr. & Mrs. Enzo Viscusi; Mary Ellen von der Heyden; Betsy von Furstenberg;Washington College; Jacob Weisberg*; David Young$500 - $999John Brooks Adams*; Linda Alexander˚; Eleanor Alger; Nicole Aragi*; Donald F. Barney, Jr.; Lauren Belfer*; PamelaBell; Kathryn & Charles Berry; Vicky Bijur*; Dr. & Mrs. Ralph S. Blume; Katherine Bonniwell & Bill Leibovitz; AlisonBourke; Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brawer˚; Mary Breasted & Ted Smyth; Mr. & Mrs. Ken Buckfire˚; Leigh Butler; WilliamW. Cobbs & Annette DeLara Cobbs; Mariana Cook & Hans P. Kraus, Jr.; Gabriella De Ferrari*; Kate Hughes DelTufo & Robert Del Tufo; Mr. & Mrs. Robert DeScenza; E. L. Doctorow*; Michele Oka Doner & Frederick Doner;Ariel Dorfman*; Dr. & Mrs. Harold B. Ehrlich; Mr. & Mrs. John Ellis; Bret Easton Ellis*; Dr. Amanda Foreman*;Lucy Frank*; L. Scott Frantz; Hugh D. Fremantle˚ & Susan F. Stevens˚; James Friedlich & Melissa Stern; DeborahFutter*; Carolina Garcia-Aguilera*; Peter Godwin*; Josephine & Jeffrey Goetz; Sara Goodman & Mott Hupfel; Mr. &Mrs. Eugene Greene; Perry Haberman˚; John A. Hargraves*; Deborah & Stephen Harnik; Liliane & Christian Haub;Joanna Hedge˚; James & Gail Isenberg; Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Kaufman; Cheri Kaufman; Steven Klugman & MaryFaucher; Page Knox; Sarah Laird; Mr. & Mrs. James Lally; Gary & Cissy Lefer; George Litton; Marcia Loughran; Mark& Nan Lvoff; Caitlin Macy*; Mr. & Mrs. Rick Malone; Donald Margulies*; Tanya Melich*; Mr. & Mrs. William J. Miller,Jr.; Honor Moore*; Alejandro Moreno; Amber Morgan & Thomas Tobin; Mr. & Mrs. Michael Najjar; Victor Navasky*;Nancy Newman*; Audrey Niffenegger*; Alison Oakes; Mr. & Mrs. Marne Obernauer, Jr.; Sidney Offit*; James S.Olson & Karen H. Shaw; Peter Osnos; Sara Paretsky*; Mark Pasmantier, M.D.; Jon Patricof; Ellen Peckham˚;Alexandra Lally Peters & Frederick Peters; Mr. & Mrs. Oscar S. Pollock; Kristin Powers*; Clifford & Elizabeth Press;Mr. & Mrs. Peter O. Price; Terry Pristin & Ron Silverman; Mr. & Mrs. Hector Prud’homme; Howard Read, III; Mr.& Mrs. David Redden; Betty Sargent*; Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Saul; Stacy Schiff*; Amy Schulman & David Nachman;*PEN Members˚ Associate MembersPen American center annual report 2011 // 39

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