PEN American Center Annual Report 2009-2010

NEXTNEXT>>>> PEN American Center Annual Report July 1, 2009 – December 31, 2010*

PEN AMERICAN CENTER BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 2009-2010

Kwame Anthony Appiah (President), Maria Campbell (Treasurer), Ron Chernow, Francisco Goldman, Beth Gutcheon, Jessica Hagedorn (Vice President), A.M. Homes (Vice President), Laurence J. Kirshbaum (Executive Vice President), Jhumpa Lahiri, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Jaime Manrique, Claudia Menza, David Michaelis, Michael F. Moore, Steven Pleshette Murphy, John Oakes, Walter Pozen, Victoria Redel, Susanna Reich, Hamilton Robinson, Jr., Roxana Robinson (Secretary), Esmeralda Santiago, Elissa Schappell, Scott Spencer, Annette Tapert, Lynne Tillman, Monique Truong, Danielle Truscott, Doug Wright, Steven L. Isenberg (Executive Director), Leon Friedman (General Counsel) PEN AMERICAN CENTER STAFF

Maggie Abam (Staff Accountant), Antonio Aiello (Web Site Editor), Nick Burd** (Manager of Membership and Literary Awards), Robyn DesHotel (Director of Finance and Administration), Jonathan Dozier-Ezell (Prison Writing Coordinator), Alena Graedon (Manager of Membership and Literary Awards), Annmarie Granstrand (Membership and Writers’ Fund Coordinator), David Haglund (Managing Editor, PEN America), Sarah Hoffman (Freedom to Write Coordinator), Steven L. Isenberg (Executive Director), Meghan Kyle-Miller (Development Associate), Stacy Leigh (Readers & Writers and Open Book Director), Charles Leung (Associate Web Site Editor), Caro Llewellyn*** (PEN World Voices Festival and Public Programs Director), M. Mark (Editor, PEN America), Linda Morgan (Development Director), László Jakab Orsós (PEN World Voices Festival and Public Programs Director), Jessica Rotondi (Executive Assistant), Larry Siems (Freedom to Write and International Programs Director), Stefanie Simons (Readers & Writers and Literary Awards Associate), Tim Smalls (Prison Writing Mentorship Program Coordinator), Jackson Taylor (Prison Writing Program Director), Elizabeth Weinstein (PEN World Voices Festival and Public Programs Manager) ______

*PEN American Center has changed its fiscal year from July 1 - June 30 to January 1 – December 31. As a result, this report covers a one-time 18-month period from July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2010. **replaced by Alena Graedon in October 2010 ***replaced by László Jakab Orsós in October 2010

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04 Welcome Letter 06 Freedom to Write 09 Campaign for Core Freedoms 11 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature 15 Public Programs 17 Readers and Writers 18 Open Book 18 Prison Writing 19 International Program 20 PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers 21 Literary Awards 24 Membership 24 Membership Committees 25 Writers’ Fund 25 PEN.org 27 PEN American Center Branches 28 In Memoriam 29 Financial Report 30 Donors 38 Get Involved

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 0 3 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> Welcome Letter

Dear Friend of PEN,

All of us who stand with PEN understand how crucial it is to protect free expression everywhere. Writers, like other artists, are indispensable to a society because they express and deliberate its ideas and ideals. We all profit from the lively exploration— in poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, books and movies, television and blogs—of the challenges that face us singly and together. In spite of the economy’s continued uncertainty, your steadfast commitment to our work has helped us free imprisoned writers and journalists, challenge torturers, mobilize writers as human rights advocates, challenge First Amendment violations, and sustain a rich conversation of voices from this country and abroad. As we have from the very beginning, we have brought together writers and readers across national, cultural, and religious divides. We are immensely grateful for your support.

Nothing quite so embodies our efforts over the past year as the conferral of the Nobel Peace Prize on Liu Xiaobo, China’s most renowned writer and political activist. PEN has been leading the international campaign for Liu, who was a past president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, our colleague organization on the ground in China. Through a protest rally viewed worldwide, the promotion of a Congressional resolution recognizing Liu’s critical role in the struggle for free expression in China, petitions, and delegations to Beijing, we have kept up the pressure to free Liu and the other jailed writers and journalists in China.

PEN’s targeted advocacy work has also focused this year on the release of writers and journalists of conscience imprisoned in Cuba, Iran, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka; and on the U.N. Human Rights Council, where we contributed to the rejection of a proposed treaty criminalizing religious defamation internationally. At home, a major lawsuit filed by PEN and other organizations and the assistance of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helped bring an end to our government’s practice of “ideological exclusion.” We celebrated by producing an event with Tariq Ramadan, an Islamic scholar and now Oxford professor who was denied a visa on religious grounds six years ago when Notre Dame offered him a tenured position.

Our Core Freedoms Program concentrated on promoting accountability for torture and other post-9/11 human rights abuses of detainees in U.S. custody and building a consensus for reform. In partnership with the ACLU, we launched the compelling and innovative “Reckoning with Torture” documentary project, which reached sold-out audiences in New York and Washington.

The sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival demonstrated the power of literature to promote a more expansive world view by bringing an international literary fellowship to New York. More than 100 writers from 40 countries participated, among them Ben Okri (Nigeria), Maziar Bahari (Iran), Alina Bronsky (Russia), Ariel Dorfman (Chile), and Roddy Doyle (Ireland). Prominent

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 0 4 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> American or U.S.-based writers, including Toni Morrison, Shirley Hazzard, Sebastian Junger, and Jonathan Lethem, helped draw audiences for important international authors who are not yet well-known in this country. Public events held under the aegis of the Festival, included Iran: A Conversation about the Elections, Protest, and the Future, which was held immediately following Iran’s disputed election before a sold-out house at the 92nd Street Y.

The 2010 PEN Literary Awards was a lively affair with Don DeLillo receiving the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the addition of three new awards: the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, the PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature, and the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career.

This report covers the period from July 1, 2009 through December 31, 2010, marking a change in our fiscal year to conform to the calendar year. The one-time eighteen-month cycle necessarily affects some year-to-year comparisons, but the improvement to our financial planning capability that the changeover will bring more than justifies the temporary complications.

We would like to express our gratitude to you by sharing an excerpt from the invitation PEN American Center received to the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony:

Your outstanding work has inspired many Chinese freedom fighters like Mr. Liu and myself. Your brilliant efforts in “Free Liu Xiaobo” are truly admirable and indispensible to our cause, hence we would like to take this opportunity to thank you and to become personal friends “with you. I earnestly hope that you will join us in Norway to share the glorious moment in celebrating Mr. Liu’s courage and accomplishment. - Yang Jianli, former political prisoner and friend to Liu Xiaobo It is a thank you to all of you who have contributed so generously to PEN. ” With warmest regards,

K. Anthony Appiah Steven L. Isenberg President Executive Director

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 0 5 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> FREEDOM TO WRITE

Writers who are subjected to state censorship, threatened with imprisonment “or menaced by violent forces in their society clearly merit the support of those of us who enjoy freedom of expression. There are things a writer never takes for granted, like the long life he will need to live in order to write the long novel he is trying to write. Maybe freedom to write belongs at the top of the list, on behalf of those writers who face the grim reality of being enemies of the state. -Don DeLillo ”

Since 1921, PEN has been the leading international voice on behalf of persecuted writers and freedom of expression. PEN American Center is the largest of the 145 centers of International PEN in 104 countries. For over 50 years, the Freedom to Write Program has fought censorship and defended imprisoned and persecuted writers around the world. Recently, we have seen alarming evidence of more governments using violence and imprisonment to silence their citizens’ voices, including those of China and Egypt, and now many more countries in the Middle East. That is why PEN American Center’s free expression work is more important than ever to put pressure on those governments that try to bury their divisive issues and silence their dissenters. Through its Rapid Action Network, PEN has the unique ability to mobilize, almost instantly, an international advocacy network and to provide on-the-spot material support for writers in danger. PEN’s Rapid Actions have literally stopped the hands of torturers, prevented disappearances, and forced fair and open trials. When immediate release cannot be achieved, PEN begins the dogged day-to-day work that constitutes the core of our mission – sustained case-based advocacy. At any given moment, PEN is monitoring more than one thousand writers in prison, on trial, or under threat in more than ninety countries. PEN American Center is currently building on its successful partnership with the Independent Chinese PEN Center, which we helped establish in 2001, by planning partnerships with the Russian, Kenyan, and Mexican PEN centers to develop their capacity to become leading voices for free expression.

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 0 6 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> D e f e n d i n g I m p r i s o n e d W r i t e r s

On December 25, 2009, Liu Xiaobo, poet, literary critic, and former president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, which PEN American Center helped found, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power” through his writing. PEN has advocated on Liu’s behalf since his arrest in December 2008, and his conviction only strengthened our resolve to help win his release.

On December 31, 2009, PEN organized a rally on the steps of the New York Public Library to protest Liu’s conviction and demand his release. The program featured statements and readings by Edward Albee, E.L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Kwame Anthony Appiah, A.M. Homes, Honor Moore, and other PEN Members. After the event, a PEN delegation delivered a letter to the Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the U.N. protesting Liu’s conviction and asking for his release. More than 75 PEN members and journalists attended the rally, which received extensive coverage on CNN and in other major media.

In early 2010, PEN American Center’s President Kwame Anthony Appiah formally nominated Liu Xiaobo for the Nobel Peace Prize, and PEN lobbied in support of the nomination throughout the year. Liu was named Nobel Laureate on October 8, 2010, and honored in Oslo on December 10th in a moving ceremony at which his absence was marked by an empty chair.

The Nobel Peace Institute featured many PEN American Center documents in an exhibition in Oslo featuring Liu’s words and work, including video from PEN events and interviews, original texts, and translations by PEN members Don DeLillo and Jeffrey Yang. E dwa r d A l bee at P E N ’ s N ew Y ea r ’ s E v e 2 0 0 9 r a l ly PEN testified before Congress on behalf of Liu Xiaobo and his supporters, including members of i n s u pp o r t o f L i u X i a o b o , t h e i m p r i s o ned w r i te r , the Independent Chinese PEN Center, drawing attention to the frighteningly restrictive conditions p o l i t i c a l a c t i v i s t, and in which they live and work. f o r m e r P r e s i dent o f t h e Independent C h i ne s e P E N PEN acted on behalf of over 1,000 writers in 106 countries in the past year, working to secure c E N T E r , w h o wa s l ate r their release from prison, forestall harsher treatment, and protect them from threat of arrest, awa r ded t h e 2 0 1 0 N o be l prosecution, or physical attack. One-hundred-thirty-two of these writers and journalists re­gained P ea c e P r i z e their freedom, including:

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 0 7 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> • Eighteen Cuban writers arrested during the 2003 “Black Spring Crackdown,” among them PEN American Center Honorary Members Normando Hernández González, winner of the 2007 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award; Dr. José Luis García Paneque; and Léster Luis González Pentón

• Uighur PEN Member Ilham Tohti, who was arrested on July 7, 2009, and released August 23, 2009

• Sayed Parwez Kahmbakhsh, a young Afghan journalist who was sentenced to death for “blasphemy,” released in August 2009, and helped to safety in a third country

• Iranian-Canadian writer, journalist, and filmmaker Maziar Bahari, who was arrested June 21, 2009, in the crackdown that followed disputed presidential elections, released on October 17, 2009, and featured in the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival

• PEN American Center Honorary Member J. S. Tissainayagam, a Tamil journalist in Sri Lanka, who was arrested on March 7, 2008, and released January 11, 2010

• PEN American Center Honorary Member Kareem Amer, an Egyptian blogger who was arrested on November 6, 2006, and released November 15, 2010

U. N . R e l i g i o u s Defamation R e s o l u t i o n

Over the past several years, PEN has been working to counter a move by several countries at the United Nations to ban speech and written expression considered defamatory to religions. On September 16, 2010, PEN led a panel discussion at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva arguing that such restrictions would do little to foster mutual understanding and respect, but could easily be used to stifle creative freedom. That discussion, which U.N delegates in attendance have called the most nuanced and effective discussion of the subject at that forum, included a PEN American Center-produced montage of videotaped reflections by four of PEN’s leading international voices: Wole Soyinka, Ariel Dorfman, Azar Nafisi, and PEN American Center President K. Anthony Appiah. As a result of efforts by PEN and other free expression organizations, support for a prohibition on religious defamation had waned considerably by year end.

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 0 8 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> T h e E m e r g e n c y f U n d for Writers in Danger

This fund assists writers and their families who, because of imprisonment or persecution, are facing serious financial challenges. Grants are given either for legal help for writers or for emergency sustenance for their families. In the past year and a half, the Emergency Fund delivered direct financial assistance for writers facing persecution in the Gambia, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and China, as well as to exiled writers living in the United States.

CAMPAIGN FOR CORE FREEDOMS

Launched in 2003, PEN’s Campaign for Core Freedoms focuses on threats to freedom of expression and human rights in the United States post-9-11. Using a full spectrum of advocacy tools – Congressional outreach, grassroots organizing, lawsuits, and online campaigning – the Core Freedoms Campaign has made measurable progress in restoring privacy protections for bookstore and library records, reining in National Security Letter and National Security Agency surveillance authorities, and ending the exclusion of foreign scholars and writers on ideological grounds. It has also partnered with the ACLU to create a public record of torture and other human rights violations committed by the United States in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, collaborating to produce The Torture Report and staging a series of public programs and events to build momentum for accountability for these abuses.

In 2009-2010, the Campaign focused especially on three areas of concern:

• Expanding safeguards for bookstore and library records and limiting the scope of secret surveillance programs The Campaign for Reader Privacy—PEN’s joint initiative with the American 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 the safeguards for the privacy of bookstore and library records that were eliminated by Section 215 of the Patriot Act.

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 0 9 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> • Ending ideological exclusion In January 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton signed orders effectively ending the exclusion of Swiss/Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan from the United States after nearly six years of legal challenges from PEN and other organizations, and on April 8, 2010, PEN hosted a panel discussion with Ramadan in New York City. PEN continued to challenge the exclusion of other scholars, including Colombian journalist Hollman Morris, who assumed a Harvard fellowship after finally being granted a visa.

• Eliminating torture and promoting accountability for human rights abuses In September 2009, PEN joined with the ACLU to stage “Reckoning With Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the ‘War on Terror’” at Cooper Union in New York City, an event in which writers, artists, actors, members of Congress, and former CIA and military agents read from the detailed reports of numerous prisoners, government memos authorizing abusive techniques, and other documents detailing the scope and disastrous human cost of the U.S. torture program. The highly successful event has been expanded into an ongoing national performance and film project. A second “Reckoning” event was presented at W r i te r I s h m ae l B ea h at P E N ’ s “ r E c k o n i n g w i t h Georgetown Law School in March 2010, and by the end of T o r t u r e ” e v ent r ead i n g f r o m t h e s w o r n s tate m ent the year, acclaimed director Doug Liman had signed on to o f Lt. C o l . D a r r e l v A N D E v e l d , a p r o s e c u t o r f o r direct another production of the program at the Sundance t h e o F F i c e o f M i l i ta r y C o m m i s s i o n s at G u antana m o Film Festival in January 2011, as well as a documentary B ay w h o r e s i g ned f o r et h i c a l r ea s o n s based on the PEN/ACLU “Reckoning with Torture” events. (Please see the public programs section for further details.)

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 1 0 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> 2010 PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL OF INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE

The 2010 PEN World Voices Festival was held April 26 through May 2. The 150 writers from 40 countries who participated explored the insights literature brings to today’s political and cultural challenges in order to advance cross-cultural understanding and expand Americans’ world view. Prominent American or U.S.-based writers drew audiences for important international authors who are not well known in this country. Among the participants were: Homero Aridjis (Mexico), Maziar Bahari (Iran), Alina Bronsky (Russia/Germany), Ariel Dorfman (Chile/U.S.), Roddy Doyle (Ireland), Richard Ford (U.S.), Mohsin Hamid (Pakistan), Shirley Hazzard (Australia/U.S.), Aleksandar Hemon (Bosnia/U.S.), Sebastian Junger (U.S.), Jonathan Lethem (U.S.), Yiyun Li (China/U.S.) Toni Morrison (U.S.), Ben Okri (Nigeria/U.K.), Miguel Syjuco (Philippines/Canada), and Janne Teller (Denmark).

There were more than 60 readings, performances, panel discussions, and conversations not only in New York City, but in other cities across the country, including Berkeley, F r o m l eft, A nd r z e j s T A s i u k ( P o l and ) , D an i e l e CA; Buffalo, NY; Cambridge, MA; Chestertown, MD; Chicago, m A s t r o g i a c o m o ( P a k i s tan / i T A ly ) , Y i y u n L i ( C h i na / U . S . ) , IL; Kingston, RI; Minneapolis, MN; Portland, OR; Pittsburgh, A l be r t o R u y - S á n c h e z ( m E X i c o ) , A t i q r A h i m i ( A f g h an i s tan ) , PA; Rochester, NY; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle, WA. This M o h s i n h A m i d ( P a k i s tan / U . K . ) , S o f i O k s anen ( F i n l and ) , was the first year in which select PEN World Voices events M i g u e l s Y juco (Phili pp i ne s ) , w i t h s A l m an R u s h d i e , P E N W o r l d V o i c e s F e s t i v a l C h a i r , at “ r E A D i n g s f r o m A r o u nd were live-streamed and a significant number made available t h e G l o be , ” o pen i n g n i g h t o f t h e 2 0 1 0 F e s t i v a l in video format on the PEN website (www.pen.org/festival). The number of downloads on YouTube and the PEN website is in the hundreds of thousands.

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 1 1 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> 2010 Festival highlights included:

Weather Report: What Can We Do? a pril 29, 2010— T h e M etropolitan m U s e u m o f A r t

As part of PEN’s continuing collaboration with The New York Review of Books and the Fritt Ord Freedom of Expression Foundation of Norway, we were pleased to present a major transatlantic conversation about the latest on global warming, the Copenhagen climate talks, and policy options for the future, featuring some of the premier scientists and writers from the U.S. and Scandinavia: Frederic Hauge, founder and director of the Bellona Foundation, an international environmental organization; Bjørn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World; Jostein Gaarder, author of the novel Sophie’s World and creator of the Sophie Prize; Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and numerous other books; James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climatologists and author of Storms of My Grandchildren; author and environment journalist Andrew Revkin; and Cynthia Rosenzweig, co-chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change, a body of experts convened by the mayor advising the city on adaptation for its critical infrastructure. The New York Review of Books editor, Robert Silvers, moderated.

Toni Morrison and Marlene van Niekerk in Conversation with K. Anthony Appiah m ay 1, 2010— T h e G r e at H a l l , C ooper Union

Marlene van Niekerk is best known for her novel Triomf, a darkly comic and controversial depiction of post-apartheid South Africa, written in her native Afrikaans. On this special I never thought the post-racial occasion, Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning author of such novels as Beloved idea was real. It’s like a fantasy to and The Bluest Eye, talked with van Niekerk about South African politics, the Afrikaans “me. A good fantasy, but not real. language and literature, and whether the U.S. has a post-racial society. PEN President K. Anthony Appiah, who conducted the conversation, noted that people have a need The election of Barack Obama to belong or not belong but that it is not racial difference that is the problem, it is was an occasion for conversation the hierarchy. Morrison responded that belonging is terribly important for Americans because most never belonged here initially. about the possibility of a post- racial world... I find now there’s War really no way to talk about race. m a y 1 , 2 0 1 0 ­— L e P o i s s o n R o u g e - Toni Morrison This panel featured journalists who have experienced war, including Deborah Amos

” P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 1 2 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> (U.S.), an award-winning correspondent who reported on the Gulf War in 1991 and covered the Iraq War for NPR; Philip Gourevitch (U.S.), who has reported on the genocide in Rwanda; Arnon Grunberg (Netherlands/U.S.), recently returned from Iraq; Sebastian Junger (U.S.), author of the recently released book War and co-director of the award-winning documentary Restrepo; Daniele Mastrogiacomo (Pakistan/Italy), who was kidnapped by the Taliban, an experience he wrote about in his book Days of Fear; and Sarah Montague (U.S.), a public radio producer and director of documentary and spoken word programs, including Public Radio International’s short story series “Selected Shorts.” The group was introduced by Steven Isenberg, Executive Director of PEN American Center.

Iran: A Conversation with Maziar Bahari and The Daily Show’s Jason Jones m a y 2 , 2 0 1 0 — F r e n c h I n s t i t u t e a l l i a n c e F r a n ç a i s e ( f i a f ) , F l o r e n c e G o u l d H a l l

In June 2009, Canadian-Iranian journalist, playwright, and documentary filmmaker Maziar Bahari was among hundreds of people arrested following the disputed Iranian presidential elections. He was held for 118 days in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. PEN and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) led an international campaign for his release, gathering over 100 signatories among the world’s most prominent writers to call for his release. The signatures appeared alongside petitions from journalists’ and filmmakers’ organizations in magazines and newspapers such as The Washington Post, Newsweek, and the International Herald Tribune. Due to international pressure, Bahari was released on October 17, 2009, four and a half months after he was first arrested. PEN and CPJ are now working with him to draw attention to the many writers and journalists currently imprisoned in Iran.

Shortly before he was arrested, Bahari filmed an interview with The Daily Show’s Jason Jones, who had traveled to Iran to do a series of satirical–and poignant–pre-election reports about the Iranian people, entitled “Access of Evil.” While in prison, Bahari was questioned about his interview with Jones, whom his interrogators labeled a spy. Bahari and Jones reunited to discuss a tumultuous year in the Islamic Republic of Iran. I r an i an c A N A D i an j o u r na l i s t, f i l m m a k e r , and h u m an r i g h t s a c t i v i s t m A z i a r B a h a r i i n c o n v e r s at i o n w i t h T h e D a i ly S h o w ’ s j A s o n J o ne s at t h e 2010 PEN Worl d V o i c e s F e s t i v a l

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 1 3 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> F r o m l eft, T h o m a s P l et z i n g e r ( g E r m any ) , B en O k r i ( N i g e r i a ) , and A l be r t o R u y - S á n c h e z ( m E X i c o ) at “ B l o g s , T w i tte r , t h e K i nd l e : T h e F u t u r e o f r E A D i n g ” at t h e 2010 PEN Worl d V o i c e s F e s t i v a l

In 2010, PEN celebrated the 50th anniversary of its campaigns on behalf of persecuted writers. To highlight this ongoing work, an empty chair was placed on the stage at each event to represent the artists around the world who have been robbed of their right to freedom of expression and are prevented from practicing their craft openly or without fear of persecution. It was intended as a reminder to audiences that the silencing of writers in one country robs the entire world of their voices. Each particular chair was dedicated to one of the more than 900 writers who were either killed, on trial, in hiding, or had disappeared for their work in 2009-10.

The Festival is more important than simply being a great place to launch a work in translation—its history parallels (or maybe even drove) the rise of interest in interna- “tional literature among publishers, reviewers, and readers. Looking toward the future, the Festival’s evolution bodes very well for the increased acceptance of works from beyond our borders… I don’t think it’s too extreme to claim that PEN changed the very nature of the conversation about literature in translation. -From “PEN World Voices as Change Agent” by Chad Post, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Open Letter Press at the University of Rochester (Publishing Perspectives, May 2010)

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r”t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 1 4 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> PUBLIC PROGRAMS

During the 2009-2010 season, Public Programs worked with many departments within PEN to present special events that underscored PEN’s mission and featured acclaimed international and American writers. Highlights included:

Iran: A Conversation About the Elections, Protest, and the Future JU LY 15, 2009—92n d S t Y

On July 15, 2009, PEN American Center organized New York City’s first public discussion on the protests against the undoubtedly rigged national election in Iran. The participants included moderator Shaul Bakhash, Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University; Roger Cohen, the New York Times Foreign Editor, who was in Iran reporting on the election when the chaos begin; Haleh Esfandiari, Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, former Deputy Secretary General of the Women’s Organization of Iran, and author of the memoir My Prison, My Home, based on her arrest by Iranian security authorities in 2007 and subsequent 105 days in solitary confinement in Tehran’s Evin Prison; and Karim Sadjadpour, an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former chief Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group based in Tehran. A sold-out audience filled the 92nd St Y for the discussion and, in k A r i m s A D j adp o u r o f t h e the first week after the event, the video was downloaded over 3,500 times on YouTube; it c A r ne g i e E nd o w m ent f o r has been downloaded thousands of times since then, spiking during the increased unrest in i N T E r nat i o na l P ea c e ta l k i n g Iran in November 2009. t o an a u d i en c e m e m be r afte r “ I r an : A C o n v e r s at i o n A b o u t t h e E l e c t i o n s , P r o te s t, and t h e Bearing Witness in Chechnya: The Legacy of Natalia Estemirova F u t u r e , ” a P E N p u b l i c p r o g r a m o c t o B e r 29, 2009—92n d S t Y h e l d o n J u ly 1 5 , 2 0 0 9 Natalia Estemirova, an award-winning human rights activist and journalist, was murdered in Russia on July 15, 2009. On October 29, 2009, at the 92nd St Y, PEN American Center honored Estemirova’s legacy while calling attention to the situation regarding freedom of expression abuses in the provinces of the North Caucasus and Russia as a whole with readings and conversations by: Salman Rushdie, writer, former PEN President, and founder of the PEN World Voices Festival; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Arena; Elena Milashina, leading correspondent for the prominent Russian publication Novaya Gazeta; Tanya Lokshina, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Moscow office; Keith Gessen, founder of the magazine n+1 and translator of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Voices from Chernobyl; and documentary filmmaker Zarema Mukusheva.

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 1 5 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the “War on Terror” o c t o B e r 1 3 , 2 0 0 9 — C o o p e r u n i o n ’ s G r e at H a l l m a rch 3, 2010—georgeto w n l a w s c h o o l

In 2009-2010, PEN partnered with the ACLU to mount two productions of “Reckoning with Torture.” Participating writers, actors, former interrogators, and leading human rights advocates read excerpts from formerly secret documents, testimonials, and other primary-source materials. Artist Jenny Holzer’s work, incorporating U.S. government documents, provided a backdrop to both readings. • October 13, 2009 (The Great Hall at Cooper Union): With Matthew Alexander, Jonathan Ames, K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Auster, Ishmael Beah, David Cole, Don DeLillo, Eve Ensler, Nell Freudenberger, Jenny Holzer, A.M. Homes, Jameel Jaffer, Susanna Moore, Jack Rice, George Saunders, Amrit Singh, and Art Spiegelman before an audience of more than 700. • March 3, 2010 (Georgetown Law School): With Matthew Alexander, Jonathan Ames, K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Auster, Ishmael Beah, David Cole, Don DeLillo, Eve Ensler, Nell Freudenberger, Jenny Holzer, A.M. Homes, Jameel Jaffer, Susanna Moore, Jack Rice, George Saunders, Amrit Singh, and Art Spiegelman reading to a sold-out crowd.

State of Emergency: Censorship by Bullet in Mexico : An Evening in Solidarity with Mexican Journalists co - s po n s ore d b y t h e j o h n S . a n d J a me s L . k n i g h t fou n d at i o n , t h e P E N C lu b d e M é x i co a n d t h e C omm i t t ee t o P ro t ec t j O U R n a l i s t s o c t o B e r 1 9 , 2 0 1 0 — c o o p e r U n i o n ’ S g r e at h a l l

At least eight journalists were murdered in Mexico in 2010 alone, and many more have been kidnapped, threatened, or have disappeared. Every day, in towns and cities throughout the country, journalists are defying Mexico’s “censorship by bullet” to expose critical truths. Renowned Mexican and American journalists and authors came together on October 19, 2010, at Cooper Union’s Great Hall for an evening of readings and conversation to call attention to the silencing of Mexican journalists trying to investigate drug-related violence in their country, especially along the U.S./Mexico border. With readings by Paul Auster, Calvin Baker, Don DeLillo, Laura P a u l A u s te r r ead i n g f r o m an ed i t o r i a l i n E l Esquivel, Francine Prose, Jose Zamora, and poets Victor Manuel Mendiola D i a r i o d e j U a re z d u r i n g “ s T A T E o f E m e r g en c y : and Luis Miguel Aguilar, and a conversation with Carmen Aristegui (CNN c E N s o r s h i p by B u l l et i n m E X i c o , ” a P E N p u b l i c en Español), Rocio Gallegos (El Diario de Juárez), and José Luis Martinez p r o g r a m h e l d o n O c t o be r 1 9 , 2 0 1 0 (Milenio Diario); moderated by Julia Preston (The New York Times).

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 1 6 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> READERS AND WRITERS

Readers & Writers is PEN’s literary arts enrichment program designed to advance literary appreciation and reading/writing skills and to develop real talent among young people in under- resourced NYC public high schools. In 2009-10, the program provided approximately 1,000 students and teachers with:

• In-School Literary Workshops, presenting a diversity of exciting new and distinguished authors in writing & reading workshops focused on issues of interest to urban teens. In- school literary workshops in 2009-10 included “No Love Like This: How To Avoid Writing Cliché” with Geoff Bankowski and “Nobody’s Victim: Agency & Voice Across Genres” with Tayari Jones. Guest authors included Dave Johnson, Susan Kuklin, Julie Otsuka, Joanna Reiss, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, and Tom Zoellner.

• Young Scholars and Literature Events, featuring authors in readings, panel discussions, and conversations, followed by Q&A sessions and book signings, and held in NYC universities and arts institutions to broaden students’ cultural experience. s T u dent s v o l u ntee r i n g t o an s we r an a u t h o r ’ s Events in 2009-2010 included “Face Off: Overcoming Barriers” q u e s t i o n d u r i n g “ F a c e o F F ! O v e r c o m i n g B a r r i e r s , ” with David Almond, Alina Bronsky, Janne Teller, and Tommy a p r o g r a m o f t h e 2010 PEN Worl d V o i c e s F e s t i v a l Wieringa; and “All Revolutions Are Local” with Coe Booth, Wesley Brown, Rachel McKibbens, and Saïd Sayrafiezadeh.

• The PEN Writing Institute provides a progressive series of writing workshops that simulate a professional writers’ workshop experience. Admitted students meet weekly at the PEN offices with a writer/instructor to learn the process of creative writing and experiment with technique. Writing Institute workshop instructors included Caitlin McDonnell, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, John Buffalo Mailer, Dante Micheaux, Robin Beth Schaer, Lynne Goldhammer, Chelsea Lemon Fetzer, and Geoffrey Bankowski.

Participating students came from Reader & Writer Partner Schools: Bayard Rustin Campus & East Side Community High School; Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies; High School for Enterprise, Business, & Technology; DreamYard Preparatory School; Marie Curie High School for Nursing. A small number of students were selected from other New York City public high schools.

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Open Book increases the participation of African, Arab, Asian, Caribbean, Latino, and Native American writers within PEN and the literary culture at large. In addition to supporting PEN membership outreach, Open Book presented the Open Book Awards (in Literary Awards section) and hosted a series of three public sessions with a featured guest. Guests included author/illustrator Javaka Steptoe, poet Roger Sedarat, and arts administrator Anna Disley who presented recent work and participated in a discussion with the writers, educators, and publishing professionals in attendance.

PRISON WRITING

Since 1973, the Prison Writing Program has provided writing instruction and mentoring services to prisoners nationally, advocated for prisoners’ rights in collaboration with PEN’s Freedom to Write Program, and produced the annual PEN Prison Writing Awards, including public celebrity readings to increase the visibility of award winners. In 2010, more than 1,500 manuscripts were submitted for the 2010 Awards, and a total of 36 prizes were awarded in the categories of Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Nonfiction/Essay, and Memoir. The PEN Prison Writing Program distributed 10,000 copies of its most recent publication, Handbook for Writers in Prison, free of charge.

Public Prison Writing events in FY2010 included:

Breakout: Voices From Inside N o v e m b er 9, 2009—W n y c ’ s T h e J e r o m e L . G r e e n e P erformance S p a c e P o et and s p o k en w o r d a r t i s t l E m o n A nde r s en r ead i n g “ P r i s o n M o o n ” by J o r g e A nt o n i o r E N A u d , As an installment of WNYC’s series “The NEXT New York a r e c i p i ent o f n i ne P E N P r i s o n W r i t i n g C o nte s t Conversation,” this event, featuring readings of Prison Writing awa r d s , at “ B r ea k o u t: V o i c e s F r o m t h e i N s i de , ” a Award-winning works, was broadcast on WNYC and the BBC benef i t f o r t h e P E N P r i s o n W r i t i n g P r o g r a m , w i t h a c t or Eric Bogosi an and w r i te r D aw u d G o n z a l e z , at WNY C ’ s T h e j E r o m e L . G r eene P e r f o r m an c e s P A c e

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 1 8 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> and also live-streamed on the internet for access by incarcerated men and women. Participants included: Lemon Andersen, writer and star of the play County of Kings and original cast member and writer of Russell Simmons’ Tony Award-winning Def Poetry Jam on Broadway; Eric Bogosian, writer and star of the play Talk Radio, for which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and Tony award; Mary Gaitskill, the author of Veronica for which she was nominated for the 2005 National Book Award; Jamal Joseph, Chair of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program and executive artistic director of Impact Repertory Theater for Harlem teens; Marie Ponsot, poet, author of The Green Dark, Admit Impediment, and True Minds and professor in the graduate writing program at Columbia University; and Sean Wilsey, author of Oh the Glory of It All.

Prison Writing Benefit n o v e m b er 1, 2010— L e P o i s s o n R o u g e

PEN celebrated the prize-winning stories and poems from the 2010 PEN Prison Writing Contest with rapper and poet Talib Kweli; Wally Lamb, author of She’s Come Undone and prison writing instructor for more than ten years; Junot Díaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Wahida Clark, who published the first three novels of her “Thug” series while incarcerated and now runs Wahida Clark Presents Publishing; Barbara Parsons, winner of the 2004 PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award and author of Reawakening Through Nature: A Prison Reflection and Puzzle Pieces; Lisa Dierbeck, novelist and co-founder of Mischief + Mayhem, a new writers’ collective; and Sean Dalpiaz, a poet who began publishing while still in prison. The program was produced by Prison Writing Committee Member Cara Benson.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM

PEN American Center is the largest of the 145 PEN centers in 104 countries that comprise International PEN (IP). Based in London, IP promotes literature and defends freedom of expression worldwide by supporting the development of PEN centers in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. In the past year, IP:

• Concentrated on implementing a plan for PEN in Asia and fortifying an expanding network of PEN centers in North Africa and the Middle East. Among its notable successes was the formal establishment of the new Cambodian PEN Center, the culmination of a two-year partnership with PEN American Center.

• Worked with new and established PEN centers in Asia and the Middle East to achieve sustainability, create programs that advance PEN’s mission and values, and make PEN a visible and active leader in the cultural lives and civil societies of key countries in these regions. In September 2010, IP held its annual World Congress of Writers in Tokyo, showcasing PEN’s expanding presence in Asia and bringing writers and the leaders of PEN centers from throughout the continent together to review and plan projects.

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 1 9 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> PEN AMERICA: A JOURNAL FOR WRITERS AND READERS

PEN American Center’s award-winning literary journal expands the reach of its programing, publishing conversations, literary tributes, and talks delivered at PEN events along with fiction, poetry, and essays by Members, PEN Literary Award-winners, and winners of the PEN Prison Writing Contest. PEN America was distributed in both in Barnes & Noble bookstores and on line for the first time in 2010.

In 2010, PEN America received a Pushcart Prize for “Memories of the Decadence,” a story by Hari Kunzru from our tenth issue, Fear Itself. Another piece from Issue 10—“February the Fourteenth,” a poem by Saw Wei, with a coded message critical of Burma’s military dictator—was reprinted in the February 2010 issue of Harper’s magazine, with credit given to the English translation’s original publication in PEN America. The Journal was also nominated for an Utne Independent Press Award in the category of international coverage and described by Utne as a “virtual gathering place, where inquiring minds share exceptional fiction and poetry, compelling essays and conversation.”

2009-2010 issues included:

PEN America 11: Make Believe, which examined the question of belief in all its forms and featured a short memoir by Khaled al-Berry recounting the author’s experience with Islamic radicalism and conversations with recent Nobel laureate J.M.G. Le Clézio, recent National Book Award-winner Colum McCann, and many others.

PEN America 12: Correspondences, which considered the changing technologies of writing, reading, and correspondence, and included comics from Lebanon and Iran. The issue’s opening e-mail exchange between Jonathan Lethem and David Gates has already been selected for an anthology of writers on the future of fiction, which will be published next year.

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 2 0 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> LITERARY AWARDS

The 2010 PEN Literary Awards (with prizes ranging from $3,000 to $35,000) were presented on October 13 in Proshansky Auditorium at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in New York City. Many of this year’s winners and judges were in attendance, including Anne Carson, Susan Choi, Don DeLillo, Theresa Rebeck, and Philip Roth.

The PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a first novel or collection of short stories published in the previous year—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise. The 2010 Bingham Fellow was Paul Harding, selected on the merits of his novel Tinkers (Bellevue Literary Press).

The PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction is presented to a distinguished living American author whose body of work in English possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career, placing him or her in the highest rank of American literature. Don DeLillo was the 2010 honoree.

The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography honors the author of an outstanding biography. The 2010 award went to Michael Scammell for Koestler (Random House).

The PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama recognize a master American dra­matist and an American playwright in mid-career. The 2010 honorees were David Mamet—best known for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed- the-Plow and his screenplays The Verdict and Wag the Dog—and Theresa Rebeck, whose plays include Our House, Bad Dates, Omnium Gatherum, The Scene, and Mauritius

The PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career recognizes a mid-career writer who has made significant contributions to the American literary landscape. The 2010 recipient was Susan Choi.

The PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature goes to the author of a work of Paraguayan literature to assist with its translation into English and publication in the United States. The inaugural PEN/Tuck Award went to Esteban Bedoya for El apocalipsis según Benedicto (Arandurã Editorial).

The PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing recognizes a distinguished book on sports purlished in the United States. The 2010 award went to Marshall Jon Fisher for A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played (Crown).

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 2 1 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry recognizes an American poet whose distinguished and growing body of work represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature. The 2010 recipient was Marilyn Hacker, whose works include Presentation Piece; Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons; Going Back to the River; and Names.

The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship provides a children’s author with a measure of financial support to complete a book-length work in progress. The 2010 fellowship went to Pat Schmatz, author of the forthcoming Bluefish.

The PEN Translation Prize is given for a distinguished book-length translation from any language into English. The 2010 award went to Michael Henry Heim for his translation from the Dutch of Wonder by Hugo Claus (Archipelago Books).

The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is given for a book-length translation of poetry. The 2010 award went to Anne Carson for her translation from the Greek of An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides (Faber & Faber).

Open Book Awards The Open Book Awards, administered by the Literary Awards Program, were conceived under the aegis of the Open Book Program, which strives to increase the participation of African, Arab, Asian, Caribbean, Latino, and Native American writers within PEN and the literary culture at large. These awards celebrate gifted authors whose exceptional works often do not attract the ex­posure they need or deserve.

The 2010 Open Book Award winners were: Sherwin Bitsui for Flood Song (Copper Canyon Press) Robin D.G. Kelley for Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press) Canyon Sam for Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History (University of Washington Press)

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 2 2 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> T ranslation f U n d G r a n t s

The PEN Translation Fund supports the translation of book-length works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama that have not previously appeared in English or have appeared only in an outdated or otherwise flawed translation. Judges: Esther Allen, David Bellos, Susan Bernofsky, Edwin Frank, Michael Moore, and Jeffrey Yang.

The 2010 Translation Fund Grantees were: • Daniel Bruent for his translation from the German of The Last Fire, a play by Dea Loher • Alexander Dawe for his translation from the Turkish of a collection of stories by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpmar • Peter Golub and Ainsley Moore for their translation from the Russian of a collection of flash fictions by Linor Goralik • Piotr Gwiazda for his translation from the Polish of Kopenhaga, poetry by Grzegorz Wroblewski • David Hull for his translation from the Chinese of Waverings, a novel by Mao Dun • Akinloye A. Ojo for his translation from the Yorùbá of Afaimo and Other Poems, the only poetry collection by Akinwumi Isola • Angela Rodel for her translation from the Bulgarian of Holy Lights, stories by Georgi Tenev • Margo Rosen for her translation from the Russian of Poetry and Untruth, a novel by Anatoly Naiman • Chip Rossetti for his translation from the Arabic of Animals in Our Days, short stories by Mohamad Makhzangi (to be published by the American University in Cairo Press) • Bilal Tanweer for his translation from the Urdu of Love in Chikiwara (And Other Such Adventures), a novel by Muhammad Khalid Akhtar • Diane Thiel for her translation from the Greek of The Great Green, a novel by Eugenia Fakinou

T h e p e n / O . H e n r y P r i z e S t o r i e s

Since 1919, twenty stories have been chosen each year and collected in the annual O. Henry Prize Stories, whose mission is to strengthen the art of the short story. Now in partnership with PEN, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories continues the tradition of recognizing excellence in the short story and encouraging writers and readers alike to celebrate the form. The following writers received this honor in 2010:

Chris Adrian; Kenneth Calhoun; Jennine Capó Crucet; Jane Delury; Tamas Dobozy; Judy Doenges; Brian Evenson; Adam Foulds; Lynn Freed; David Means; Susan Minot; Matthew Neill Null; Lori Ostlund; Leslie Parry; Jim Shephard; Helen Simpson; Mark Slouka; Elizabeth Tallent; Lily Tuck; and Brad Watson.

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 2 3 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> MEMBERSHIP

As of December, 2010, PEN American Center had more than 3,000 members, including many of the most distinguished and influential members of 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 our nonprofessional tier of Membership, total more than 1,000. This group of committed supporters is indispensable to PEN American Center, providing a broad base of volunteers and online activists who share PEN’s core values.

Many Members are continuing PEN’s nearly 90-year-old activist tradition by participating in human rights work and literary programming. More than 200 Members sat on the committees that guide the organization, and hundreds more participated in advocacy casework that directly affected the lives of persecuted and imprisoned writers. This year, more than 100 Members participated in public programs, including the PEN World Voices Festival; hundreds contributed writing to PEN.org and PEN America; and thousands signed petitions and were active in PEN freedom of expression advocacy campaigns.

Membership Committees

Created by PEN Members, Membership Committees assume a number of T h e 2 0 1 0 N ew m E m be r s / N ew B o o k s P a r ty forms, from informal meetings to readings to public discussions. Information c e l eb r at i n g new P E N m E m be r s and m e m be r s w i t h new b o o k s p u b l i s h ed d u r i n g t h e about the four principal PEN Member Committees—Children’s/Young Adult pa s t yea r , h e l d o n j A N u a r y 10, 2011, at Book Authors, Open Book, Prison Writing, and Translation—is presented in p o we r H o u s e A r ena their respective sections of this report. Now in its 18th year, the Woman’s Literary Workshop met 13 times and hosted its annual readings and receptions at the PEN office on September 29, 2009 and September 27, 2010. The Writers’ Roundtable, inaugurated in 2004, hosted three sessions at Paragraph, the writers’ space near Union Square, with discussions led by John Wray, Nicholas Dawidoff, and Kamy Wicoff. These sessions were moderated by PEN Members Barbara Fischkin and Jennifer Vanderbes.

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The PEN Writers’ Fund gives grants to professional writers in acute financial crisis. From July 2009 through December 2010, the Committee allocated $60,720 to 38 writers, editors, and translators suffering from a range of medical and professional emergencies.

Recipients included: a Vietnam War veteran and AIDS activist living with PTSD; a children’s book writer and publisher needing financial assistance for cancer treatment; a poet whose house was in foreclosure; and a memoirist left with medical debt after multiple kidney transplants.

PEN.org

PEN.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. They also find advocacy resources, in addition to audio and video of PEN’s public programs. Recent video production and dissemination has resulted in an explosion of traffic and followings for PEN on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. PEN has effectively become a powerful micro- publisher of literary translations, domestic literature, podcasts, video casts, and human rights advocacy news and information. In 2010, PEN videos were watched more than 117,000 times on YouTube, causing PEN to be ranked as high as number 3 among non-profit producers on daily and weekly views. Through YouTube, we have been able to broadcast PEN programming around the world to China, Iran, Egypt, Turkey, and dozens of other countries. During this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, we were able to video, edit, and post more than 35 events in less than six days.

With automated e-mail blasts, online petitions, letter-writing campaigns, and a Rapid Action Network for writers in peril, the PEN website has become an invaluable platform for domestic and international human rights campaigning. For example:

• When renowned Chinese writer and former Independent Chinese PEN Center President Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to prison in December, 2010, PEN produced a protest rally with Edward Albee, Don DeLillo, E.L. Doctorow, and others on the steps of the New York Public Library. We videotaped the rally, posted it on YouTube, and sent out email blast action alerts and press releases that captured the attention of multiple news organizations. The video went viral on YouTube with 50,000

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 2 5 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> views, and PEN’s advocacy software logged over 1,100 emails sent to His Excellency Hu Jintao, President of the People’s Republic of China, demanding the immediate release of Liu Xiaobo, who was subsequently successfully nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by PEN American Center President K. Anthony Appiah.

• When Burmese blogger Nay Phone Latt received this year’s PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award, we published an online feature with his writing and a call to action. We sent out an email action alert and a press release. In the week of the action alert alone, we were able to send over 250 emails to Senior General Than Shwe demanding the immediate release of Nay Phone Latt.

Over the past 18 months we have developed a comprehensive communications strategy aimed at broadcasting PEN’s human rights and cultural programming to an ever-growing national and international audience. In addition to the YouTube broadcasts mentioned above, highlights include:

• Podcasts/Audio: Over 125,000 podcasts of PEN programming were downloaded every month. The 2010 PEN World Voices Festival events were downloaded more than 9,000 times in the first three weeks of May alone.

• Email Monthly Newsletter: We currently have an email list of over 13,000 subscribers who signed up for ongoing news and information about PEN’s programming and human rights advocacy.

• Twitter: PEN currently has over 4,000 followers on Twitter which connects them to PEN audio and video features, manuscripts, advocacy campaigns, letter writing campaigns, and online literary features focusing on translation, works by minority writers, international literature, and human rights issues.

• Media Partnerships: PEN delivered audio recordings of more than 20 Festival events to WNYC New York Public Radio’s website to be made available as podcasts.

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 2 6 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> PEN AMERICAN CENTER BRANCHES

Regional branches give voice to Members nationwide and provide opportunities for direct engagement in the causes PEN cares about most. There are three branches of PEN American Center.

PEN New England

PEN’s New England chapter once again produced a full year-round calendar of events promoting a culture of literature, defending freedom of expression, and celebrating the region’s literary community. Highlights included: a special literary tribute to champion of writers and independent publishers Howard Zinn and the establishment of the Howard Zinn The People Speak Award; “Lyrics & Literature,” a conversation with Paul Simon, Paul Muldoon, and Bill Flanagan, and the announcement of the PEN New England Prize for Literary Excellence in Lyric Writing; the annual presentation of the PEN/Hemingway & the PEN New England/Winship Awards; and the Nature Writing Committee’s presentation of The Henry David Thoreau Prize for literary excellence in nature writing to scientist and author Edward O. Wilson.

PEN West

PEN West hosted six events during the 2009–2010 season. These included readings and talks with Helen Benedict, Constance Borde, Novella Carpenter, Lynn Freed, Ann Harleman, Sheila Malvany-Chevallier, Stephen O’Connor, Peter Orner, Irvin D. Yalom, and Marilyn Yalom; as well as an event with Huang Xiang and Sandra Gilbert, which was held in conjunction with the Center for Art and Translation. The annual celebration in honor of local PEN Members and associates who published books during the year took place on April 11, 2010, at the home of PEN West President Brenda Webster.

PEN Northwest

PEN Northwest administers the annual Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, now in its 20th year. In exchange for routine caretaking, the resident receives the profound solitude of a remote homestead in Oregon’s Rogue River Canyon and the support of a $5,000 stipend. The current holder of the residency, Josie Sigler, is a poet and fiction writer.

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 2 7 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> IN MEMORIAM ( J u ly 1 , 2 0 0 9 – D e c e m be r 31, 2010)

Ai Gerald Green Walter James Miller Louis Auchincloss Bernice Grohskopf Barbara Robinette Moss Vance Bourjaily Thomas Guinzburg Carlene Hatcher Polite Dennis Brutus James Baker Hall Hazel Rowley Knox Burger Barry Hannah Budd Schulberg Jim Carroll E. Lynn Harris Erich Segal John Chase Arthur Herzog Ray Shaw Lucille Clifton William Hoffman Ben Sonnenberg Barbara Thompson Davis Lucy Kavaler Robert Donald Spector L. J. Davis Robert Kornfeld Joseph Stein Dominick Dunne Arnold Kramish Janine Pommy Vega Raymond Federman Steven Kroll David J. Weber Renaldo Ferradas Isabella Leitner Rachel Wetzsteon Sid Fleischman David Markson Paul Williams Sanford Friedman Norma Fox Mazer Howard Zinn Richard Gilman Frank McCourt Isabel Glass Milton Meltzer

Every effort has been made to ensure that this list is complete. If you know of a PEN Member who has passed away in the last eighteen months and who is not listed here, please contact us so we can remember him or her in our next report.

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 2 8 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> FINANCIAL REPORT FY10 Financial Information INCOME EXPENSES

Contributions $1,363,830 Personnel $1,340,467 Fundraising Benefits (net) 792,319 Program Consultants 186,936 Membership Dues 213,076 Event & Development Consultants 42,400 Professional & Administrative Fees 162,439 Participant Fees & Purchases 134,268 Rent & Occupancy 199,941 Investment Income 3,682 Office Supplies & Expense 31,892 Miscellaneous 6,099 Electronic Communications 67,900 Total Income $2,513,274 Print Communications 146,923 Awards, Grants & Other Support 132,271 Event & Meeting Expense 118,463 Travel 120,712 EXPENSES BY CATEGORY Book Purchases & Distribution 10,516 Other Program Expense 14,735 Other Administrative Expense 16,777 Total Expenses Before Depreciation $2,592,371 Surplus (Deficit) After Depreciation $(79,097)

m i n 8 % d a Depreciation $60,555 Total Expense After Depreciation 2,652,926 Surplus (Deficit) After Depreciation $(139,652)

r a i s i n1 g6 % d n f u In 2010, we changed our fiscal year to be concurrent with the p r o g r a m s calendar year. This move necessitated a one-time, eighteen- month accounting period from­ July 1, 2009 through December 31, 2010. For comparability purposes, the information shown above represents the twelve-month period from July 1, 2009 to 7 6 % June 30, 2010 (our prior fiscal year basis), and is derived from our FY2010 audited financial statements, covering the eighteen- month period and available from PEN upon request.

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 2 9 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> DONORS

A list of contributors to PEN American Center from July 1, 2009, to December 31, 2010 follows. Contributers include PEN members (*) and Associate Members (˚) who contributed above membership dues; trustees; individuals; foundations; corporations; and government agencies. Contributions have been designated for PEN’s 2010 Literary Gala, the 2010 Authors’ Evenings, the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival, the 2010 Literary Awards, specific PEN programs, and the PEN general fund. We are enormously grateful to all those have supported PEN’s work and are delighted to acknowledge their generosity.

$400,000 and above The Kaplen Foundation

$100,000 - $200,000 The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust; The Lannan Foundation; Open Society Institute/The Foundation to Promote Open Society

$50,000 - $99,999 The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; LJK Literary Management; Steven* & Ann Pleshette Murphy; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; Random House, Inc.; John* & Louisa Troubh; Lily Tuck*; Anonymous

$25,000 - $49,999 Amazon.com; Atlas & Co.; The Bank of New York Mellon; Bloomberg; The Marc Haas Foundation; Instituto Cervantes; The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Yoko Ono Lennon; The Arthur Loeb Foundation; Michael Moritz & Harriet Heyman; National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts-a state agency; Penguin Group (USA); Daniel & Joanna Rose; The Arthur Ross Foundation; Annette Tapert* & Joseph Allen; The Diller- von Furstenberg Family Foundation

$15,000 - $24,999 Roger Altman & Jurate Kazickas; Clara Bingham*; Disney ABC Television Group; FJC- a Foundation of Philanthropic Funds; Institusjonen Fritt Ord; Hachette Book Group; HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.; The Hearst Corporation; Institut Ramon Llull; Macmillan; The New Yorker; The Laura Pels Foundation; Holly Peterson; Anonymous

$10,000 - $14,999 The Atlantic Philanthropies Director/Employee Designated Gift Fund; Mr. & Mrs. Carter Bales; Barnes & Noble Booksellers; City University of New York/Chancellor Matthew Goldstein; Cognizant Technology Solutions; Condé Nast Publications; Susan W. Dryfoos*; The R.S. Evans Foundation; Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature; Wendy Gimbel* & Douglas Liebhafsky; Edwin A. & Lorna Goodman; Houghton Mifflin Company; Steven & Barbara Isenberg; John &

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 3 0 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> Tina Keker; The Leon Levy Foundation; Vanessa Lilly; Carol & Earle I. Mack; The Overbrook Foundation; Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Schwarzman; Simon & Schuster; Sony Corporation of America; Eva & John Usdan; Jacqueline Weld* & Rodman Drake; William Morris Endeavor Entertainment; The Norman & Rosita Winston Foundation, Inc.; Anonymous

$5,000 - $9,999 Kwame Anthony Appiah*; Joan Bingham*; Roxanne Donovan; Toni Goodale*; The Jerome L. Greene Foundation/Christina McInerney; Grove/Atlantic, Inc.; Beth Gutcheon* & Robin Clements; Danielle Truscott & Andrew Kaufman; Eric Lax*; Jeffrey Levy-Hinte & Kristin Kusama; Carol & Rick Malone; Yvonne & Michael Marsh; The New York Review of Books; The Royal Norwegian Consulate General; Tess O’Dwyer; Frank Rango & Barbara Mantel; The Estate of Rochelle Ratner*;W. W. Norton & Company; The Edna Wardlaw Charitable Trust; Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation; The Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation; Joan K. Davidson*(The J.M. Kaplan Fund); Anonymous

$1,000 - $4,999 John Brooks Adams*; Allen Adler & Frances Beatty; Richard Albright & Terry K. Albright; Eleanor Alger; Mr. & Mrs. O. Kelley Anderson; Stuart Applebaum; Ken Auletta* & Amanda Urban; Australian Consulate General, New York; Angelica* & Euan Baird; Louis Begley*; Benetton USA; Amelia Michelle Black; Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Blanchard; Helen Bodian & Roger Alcalay; Donnaldson Brown; Maria B.* & Woodrow Campbell; Michael V. Carlisle* & Dr. Sally Peterson; Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Carron; Mr. & Mrs. Monty Cerf; Ron Chernow*; Joel Conarroe*; Mariana Cook & Hans P. Kraus, Jr.; Elizabeth de Cuevas; Don DeLillo*; Letizia DeRosa˚; Ariel Dorfman*; Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones; John K. Doyle & Judy Crawford; Duke University Center for International Studies; The Charles Engelhard Foundation; Morgan Entrekin*; Mr. & Mrs. J. Pepe Fanjul; Leigh Feldman*; Flemish Literature Fund; Robert Flug; Mr. & Mrs. Henry Fownes; Dorothea Frank; Mr. & Mrs. David Gaunt; German Book Office; Bruce & Juliana Terian Gilbert; Jim Glanzer˚; Goethe Institut New York; Lynn Goldberg*/Goldberg McDuffie Communications; Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. Greenberg; Christopher Grisanti & Suzanne Fawbush; Kate C. Gubelmann; Douglas Hamilton; Jennifer Hand & Tom Tierney; Paul Harding*; Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hoppin˚; Susan Isaacs*; James & Gail Isenberg; Istituto Italiano di Cultura; Erica Jong*; Wayne Kabak; Edmund Keeley*; John P. Kehoe; Mr. & Mrs. Harris L. Kempner, Jr.; Christine Kuehbeck & Carl Bernstein; Susan Kuklin*; Wally Lamb*; Sue Lehmann; Geraldine Lettieri Marcus; Jeanne Levy- Church; Harper’s Magazine/John R. MacArthur*; Estate of William Marchant; James Marlas˚ & Marie Nugent-Head Marlas˚; Celia˚ & Henry˚ McGee; Mr. & Mrs. Jason McManus; Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Menschel; Mr. & Mrs. William J. Michaelcheck˚; David Michaelis*; Gail Monaghan; Mr. & Mrs. Hans Morris; Barbara S. Mosbacher; Victor Navasky*; Lynn Nesbit; Mark & Lorry Newhouse; Audrey Niffenegger*; John G. H. Oakes*; Sidney Offit*; Hannah Pakula*; Perseus Books LLC; Alexandra Lally Peters & Frederick Peters; Kate & Gianni Picco; Mr. & Mrs. Leon B. Polsky; Susanna Porter & James Clark; Walter Pozen; Mr. & Mrs. James Price; Pro Helvetia; Quebec Government Office; Mary Ann & Bruno* Quinson; Elizabeth Rea˚; Victoria Redel*; Frank Richardson & The Honorable Kimba Wood; Roxana* & Hamilton Robinson; Shirley Lord Rosenthal˚; Daryl Roth; Michael Rudell; Jeannette Watson Sanger*; Simon Schama*; Lawrence Schiller*; Leigh Seippel & Susan Patterson; Jane & Paul Shang; Siegel Family Foundation; Mr. & Mrs. David Solomon˚; Paul Steiger & Wendy Barnes; Mr. & Mrs. Michael Steinberg; Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Taubman; Felicia Taylor; Mary Ann Tighe & David Hildago; Tin House Books; Bara Tisch; Laurie Tisch/ The Laurie M. Tisch Ilumination Fund; Mr. & Mrs. Lee Vance; Mr. & Mrs. Enzo Viscusi; Betsy von Furstenberg; Charlotte Von Vongt˚;

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 3 1 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> Fredrica Wagman*; Robert Weil*; Davis Weinstock* & Elizabeth Hawes Weinstock*; Bryan Weiss; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Jason H. Wright; Douglas Wright*; The Wylie Agency

$500 - $999 Eliza Anderson˚; Christopher Arambul; Alberta Arthurs*; Russell Banks*; Hyatt Bass*; Helena & Peter Bienstock; Jeanne Blaustein; Dr. & Mrs. Ralph S. Blume; Mary Breasted & Ted Smyth; Ken Buckfire˚; Jonathan Bunge˚; Frederick Butler; Conrad & Ludmila Cafritz; Susan Calhoun & Charles Moss; Jayni Chase; Mr. & Mrs. Alan Cohn; Mark Colman; Joel Conarroe*; Robert Coover*; Ivy Crewdson; Deutsches Haus NYU; Layla Diba; Katha Diddel-Warren; E. L. Doctorow*; Michele Oka Doner & Frederick Doner; Nancy Drosd; Anne Edelstein*; Bob & Bonnie Eisenhardt; Inger McCabe Elliott; Alexandra Enders˚; Steven Engelberg & Pamela Covington; Leslie Fahrenkopf & Tom Foley; Jeanmarie & William Fenrich; L. Scott Frantz; Warren Freyer; Johanna Garfield*; Paula Gerden; Mark Gimbel & Dede Welles; Enrique Foster Gittes; Loretta Brennan Glucksman; Mr. & Mrs. Richard Godosky; Peter & Aliette Goldmark; Angeline Goreau*; Estate of Roberta Leslie Gourse*; Graywolf Press; Robert & Ann Gross; Rachel Hadas*; Jessica Hagedorn*; Daniel Handler*; Margaret Harper; Joanna Hedge˚; Marshall & Linda Heinberg; Ivan Held˚; William Herrman & Dana Herrman; James Hirschfeld; Judy Hottensen; The Ellen E. Howe Foundation; Wolf & Rita Jakubowski; Wendy Kaminer*; Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Kaufman; Ana Carolina Khouri; Frances Kiernan*; Steven Klugman & Mary Faucher; Neil Koenigsberg; Victor Kovner; Mr. & Mrs. James Lally; Edie Langner & Michael Coles; Starling Lawrence˚; Elmore Leonard*; Alexia Leuschen; Christina Lewis; Nancy W.˚ & Robert G.˚ Lewis; Gordon Litwin; Irene Lowenkron; Jeff MacGregor*; Marshall Marcovitz; Donald Margulies*; Alfred, Lee & Peter Mayer Foundation; Alice E. Mayhew*; Cal Barnett Mayotte; William & Dana McAvity; Wesley McCain˚ & Noreene Storrie˚; Ellen McCourt; Nick McDonell*; Mr. & Mrs. William J. Miller, Jr.; Amber Morgan & Tom Tobin; Harryette Mullen*; Peter Nadin & Anne Kennedy; Mr. & Mrs. Michael M. Nesbitt; New Zealand Book Council; Elizabeth˚ & Christian˚ Oberbeck; Mr. & Mrs. Marne Obernauer, Jr.; Mark W. Pasmantier; Ellen Peckham˚; Mr. & Mrs. Oscar S. Pollock; Puffin Foundation Ltd.; Reed Rayman; Jules Reid; George Repeczky; Eileen Robert; Constance Roosevelt; Wanda Root; Dr. & Mrs. Mitchell S. Rosenthal; Zoe Sakoutis; Ellen Sargent & Steven Nicholas; Sidney Seifer; Ellen K. Solender; Susan & Peter Solomon; Parry Daniel Sorensen; Rubin Standefer; Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.; Hume Steyer; Julia Strayer; Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr.; Claiborne Swanson; Georgia Tapert; David Thomas; Mr. & Mrs. Donald Tober; Noreen Tomassi/ The Center for Fiction; Jeffrey Toobin; Mr. & Mrs. William vanden Heuvel; Alex & Carrie Vik; Nela Wagman & Steven Wein; Kate Walbert*; Alice Walker*; Rosalind P. Walter; Carl Weisbrod & The Hon. Jody Adams

$100 - $499 Debra Aboodi; Cigdem Acar˚; Terry Ain; Annelyse M. Allen; Joseph Amiel*; Jon Lee Anderson*; Nicole Aragi*; Amy Archer; Helen Armide; Kate Ascher; David Auburn*; Judith Auchincloss; Jean M. Auel*; Paul Auster*; Sarah Baker*; Neil Baldwin*; Claudia Ballard; Jodi & Craig Balsam; Benjamin Barber*; Ann Louise Bardach*; Mary Ellin Barrett*; Hyatt Bass*; Lauren Belfer*; Pamela Bell; Thomas Bender*; John Berendt*; Andrew Bergman*; Laurence Bergreen*; Nicholas Bernstein; Nina Bernstein*; Sandra Berris˚; Flora Miller Biddle*; Ruth Bishop˚; Alex Blankfein; Valerie Block*; Ben Brantley*; John Brennan˚; Lily Brett*; Abraham Bronchtein & Patricia Groom; Hadassah Brooks-Morgan; Nicholas Brown; Wesley Brown*; Jesse Browner*; Judith Bruce; Jackson R. Bryer; Candace Bushnell*; Leigh Butler; Britt Caputo; Vanessa Carlton; Robert A. Caro*; Judi Caron; Hodding Carter*; Erika Casriel; Kelly Ann Castagnaro; Claire Elena Catenaccio; Jennifer Chamberlain; Leslie Chang*; Alan

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 3 2 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> Chasanoff˚; Ellen Chesler*; Bell Gale Chevigny*; Genevieve Christy; City Lights Books; Joan Hardy Clark˚; Priscilla Cogan*; Alden Duer Cohen; Todd Cohen; Joanna Cole*; Lauren Collins; Linda Collins*; Joel Colton*; Ronald Columbus˚; Eva Livia Corredor˚; Joan Crowell*; James Cryer*; Nina Curley; Judith Curr*; John D. Dale˚; Ana Daniel; Joan K. Davidson*; David John Davies; Bruce Degen*; Frank Delaney*; Carl Dennis*; Ariane Dewey*; Fernando Dias de Souza; Junot Diaz*; Morris Dickstein*; Gregory Djanikian*; John Dobkin; Carolyn N. Dolan; Wallis Dolan; Jonathan Dolger*; Del Donati; Ariel Dorfman*; Erika Duncan*; Eleanor Dunn; Christopher Durang*; David Ebershoff*; Jennifer Egan*; Elizabeth Ehrlich; Therese Eiben & George Milling-Stanley; Ellen Elias-Bursac*; Bret Easton Ellis*; Gaetana Enders; Mandie Erickson; Harold Espen & Caroline Fraser; Susan C. Evans; Alexandria Faiz˚; Gayle Feldman*; Amanda Filipacchi*; Henry Finder*; Claudette Fink; Karen Finley*; Robert Fishman; Tommye Fitzpatrick; The Ford Foundation Matching Gift Program; Ben Fountain*; Paula Fox*; Julia Devon Frakes; Umindi Francis; Francisco Franklin; Ralph Freedman*; Richard Fremantle*; B. H. Friedman*; Sanford Friedman; Nicole Fuller; Dorothy Gallagher*; Beatrize Garcia; Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier*; Barbara Gelb*; Dan Gerber*; Victoria Ghilaga; Elizabeth Gilbert*; Stacie Gillian; Robert Giron*; Celia Gittelson*; Glimmer Train; Paul Goldberger*; Tijs Goldschmidt; Bruce Goldsmith*; Frank Gonzalez & Deborah Gonzalez; Mimosa Gordon; Francis Greenburger˚ & Isabelle Autones˚; Gael Greene*; Stephanie Gregerman˚; David & Joan Grubin˚; Arnon Grunberg; Sydney Gruson; Laurie Gunst*; Peter Guralnick*; A. R. Gurney*; Perry Haberman˚; Linda Hamalian*; Francesca Hammerstein; Benjamin Harnett; Roby Harrington*; Ron Hartenbaum; Darrell Hartman; Matthea Harvey*; Ihab Hassan*; Tony Hearns; Marian S. Heiskell; Daniella Helayel; Anne C. Heller; Tony Hendra*; Gabriella Herkert*; Arlene Heyman˚; Carl Hiaasen*; Bonnie Bryant Hiller*; Jane Stanton Hitchcock*; Minfong Ho*; Mary Ann Hoberman*; Kelley Holland˚; Anne Hollander*; Helen Honig; Charlotte Howard; Amy Hunter; Anne Huntington; Charles Huschle; Siri Hustvedt*; Sally Huxley˚; Anne Isaak; Ellen M. Iseman; Katherine Jackson˚; Alexander Jaffe; John Jakes*; Mary S. Jemail; Henry Joost; Katherine Kahan; Richard Kahan; Charles H. Kahn*; Thomas Kail; Arthur Kalita & Sharon A. Korsgaard; David Karnovsky; Margaret Katz; Elizabeth S. Katz*; John Katzenbach*; Pat Kaufman*; Lucy Kavaler*; Dodie Kazanjian & Calvin Tomkins; Ian Kelley˚; X. J. Kennedy*; William Kennedy*; Linda K. Kerber*; Klaus Kertess*; Charlotte Kidd; Kirby Kim; William Kingsland; Barbara Kingsolver; Steven Kippur; Adam Klaff; Margaret Klemm; Marshall Klimasewiski*; Jason Klurfeld; Page Knox; Mary Lynn Kotz*; Nick Kotz*; Faran Krentcil; Nancy Kricorian*; Billy Kuhn; Lily Kwong; Mrs. Henry Labalme; Sandra & Robert LaCava; Estefania Lacayo; Sophie Laffont˚; Jhumpa Lahiri*; Dylan Landis˚; Lori Lansens*; Robert M. Laughlin*; Roxana Laughlin˚ & Rev. Ledlie Laughlin˚; Anne Adams Laumont˚; Lisa Lavora; Kristin May Lee; Katherine Leiner*; Joseph Lelyveld*; Harding Lemay*; Lillian Lerman & George Domingo; Miriam Levine*; Elizabeth Levy*; Peggy & Lawrence Levy; Peter R. Limburg*; Arthur Lipow˚; Darrell & Oivind Lorentzen; Lisa Lupinski; Anne Marie Macari*; Joshua Mack; John Macomber; Caitlin Macy*; Janet Malcolm*; Mannuccio Mannucci; David Maraniss*; Stephen E. Marston˚; Bruce Mason; Natalie Matthews; Peter Matthiessen*; Alice Mattison*; Anne Mazer*; Gillian McCain*; Stephen McCauley*; Pamela McCorduck*; Valeria McCulloch; Michele McGrain; Patrick McGrath*; Anita Williams McGuire; Jay McInerney* & Anne R. Hearst; Clarissa McNair*; Tom McNeal*; Taylor McNeill; Donald McQuade*; Grete Meilman; Tanya Melich*; Daniel Menaker*; Ana Merino*; Candice Miller; Breon Mitchell*; John Mollett; Janel Molton; Rick Moody*; Michael S. Moore*; Edmund S. Morgan*; Thomas B. Morgan*; Charles Morris*; Cara Morrissey; Tamara Moscowitz; Nahid Mozaffari*; Bharati Mukherjee*; Erika Munk*; Antonio Muñoz Molina*; James Munves*; Brian Murphy & Jessie Randall; Hilla Narov; Peter Nazareth*; New Mexico Community Foundation; Joshua & Jessica Newman; Caroline Niemczyk; Matthew Nimetz; Susan Nitze; Joseph O’Neill*; David Oshinsky*; Patricia Palmer; Sara Paretsky*; Ann Patty*; Susan Petersmeyer˚; Claire Pettengill˚; Nat Philbrick*; Lauren Remington Platt;

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 3 3 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> Kristin Powers*; Betsy Prioleau*; Terry A. Pristin; Noah Pritzker; Loretta Prosser; Hilda S. Pyun; Clementine C.* & Gregory Rabassa*; David Rabe*; Theresa Rebeck*; Marcus Rediker*; Gail Hunt Reeke; Susanna Reich*; James Reuben; Adrienne Rich*; Irving Richlin; Sandra Roche; Indre Rockefeller; Michelle Rorke; Mordecai Rosenfeld*; Edward & Amy Rosenthal; Mary Calder Rower; Laura Rubin; Marly Rusoff*; Richard Russo*; Linn Sage˚; Esmeralda Santiago*; Greg Sarris*; Margaret Sayers Peden*; David R. Schanker*; Yvette Scheven; Stacy Schiff*; David Schiffman; Pat Schmatz*; William Price Schwalbe*; John Burnham Schwartz*; Joanna Scott*; Robert Scott & Carole Artigiani; David Sedaris*; Craig Seligman*; Carol Selle; Michael Shae; Lawrence Shainberg*; Frederick M. Shaine*; Hazel & Marvin Shanken; Richard Shelton*; Jerome B. Sherman; Georgia Shreve˚; Marisa Silver*; Ira Silverberg*; Al Silverman*; Joel Simon; Curtis Sittenfeld*; Melissa Skoog; Harry Smith*; Winston Smith; Andrew Solomon*; Patrick Somerville*; Ben Sonnenberg*; Jose M. Soriano; Scott Spencer*; Celina Spiegel*; Catharine Stimpson*; Terry Stokes*; Susan Ades Stone; Caren Sturges; Rose Styron*; Catherine La Farge Summers; Feifei Sun; Susan Sussman; Betsy Swindell; Gay Talese*; Nan A. Talese*; Frances Taliaferro; Wilbert A. Tatum*; Mark Taylor*; Mieke Ten Have; Megan Terry*; John C. Thomas, Jr.; Judith Thurman*; Hannah Tinti*; Frances Todd; Lester Tour; Patricia Towers*; Scott Univer; Dr. Harold E. Varmus & Constance Casey; Glyn Vincent*; Margo Viscusi˚; Patricia Volk*; Mr. & Mrs. Steven Volk; Jane von Mehren*; Daniel Wallace*; Janet Wallach*; Amei Wallach*; John Wareham*; Ted Wasserman; Robert Wechsler*; Calvin Wei; Wendy Weil; Jonathan Weiner*; Elaine M. Weissman˚; Peregrine Whittlesey & Robert Timpson; Emily Wiedemann; Marc Wiesenfreund; Roger Williams; Cappi Williamson; Krishna Winston*; Christy Nan Wise˚; Arden Wohl; James Wolcott*; Tobias Wolff*; Michael Wood*; Robin Wright; Rafael Yglesias*; Crystal Yin; George Yonemura˚; Brian Yorkey*; Charles Young; Sandra Zweig; Anonymous (2)

up to $99 Sagal Abshir˚; Ali Jimale Ahmed*; Meena Alexander*; Luis Alberto Ambroggio*; Maggie Anderson*; Tony Ardizzone*; Sally Arteseros*; Michael & Susan Ashmore; Linda Phillips Ashour*; Dore Ashton*; Ed Aubrey˚; Russell Baker*; Deborah Baker*; Trudy Balch*; Virginia Barber*; Wendy Barker*; Coleman Barks*; Joan Barthel*; Alyssa Battistoni; Christian Bauman*; Jeanne Marie Beaumont*; Chris Belden; Aimee Bender*; Jeffrey Berenson; Mary Berger˚; Eleanor Bergstein*; Ira Berkow*; Emily Bernard*; Adria Bernardi*; David Bernstein˚; Norman Birnbaum*; Gloria Bletter˚; Lucienne Bloch*; George Bradley*; Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brawer˚; Kim Bridgford*; Mary Brogan˚; Peter Brooks*; Rosellen Brown*; Monica Brown*; Sylvia Brownrigg*; Kate Buford*; Terrance Butler; Viola Irene Canales*; Peter Canby˚ & Anne Putnam˚; Steve Cannon*; Peter Carey*; Luis Castro; Marcia Cavell*; Jennifer Cecil; Peter Chilson*; Ludmila David Chorekchan˚; Maramis Choufani; Odile Cisneros*; Phyllis Cohen & Jeffrey Lazarus; Thomas Colchie*; Janet Coleman*; Ted Conover*; Harriet Cooper˚; Debbie Coulson; Eleanor Craig-Green*; Justin Cronin*; Ron Currie*; Lewis Dabney*; Saralyn Daly˚; Mark Z. Danielewski*; John Darnton*; Nina daVinci*; Kimberly Davis˚; Jessica de Koninck˚; Andrew Delbanco*; Bruno Dellinger*; Peter Demetz*; Barbaralee Diamonstein Spielvogel*; Joan Downs*; Michael Drinkard*; André Dubus III*; Rikki Ducornet*; Barton Dudlick; Austin Edgington; Amy Ehrlich*; Evan Eisenberg*; Deborah Eisenberg*; Jill Eisenstadt*; Monroe Engel*; Merle Englander˚; Howard Epstein*; Elizabeth Evans*; Marguerite Feitlowitz*; Nancy Festinger*; Barbara Fischkin*; Jonathan Fish; Nicole Fix˚; Stewart Florsheim˚; Robert Flynn*; Eva Fogelman*; Peter Fogtdal*; Carolyn Forche*; Jennifer Fortin˚; Elizabeth Frank*; Lynn C.

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 3 4 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> Franklin*; Samuel G. Freedman*; Russell Freedman*; Charles Fuller*; Rachel Gallagher˚; Beatrix Gates*; Alan Gelb*; Jane Gelfman*; Tyler Gentry; Jean Gerard; Amitav Ghosh*; Edes Gilbert˚; Peter Glassgold*; David R. Godine*; Carol Goldberg˚; Andrew Goldberg˚; Frances Goldin*; Pam Goldman˚; Silvianna Goldsmith˚; Edward Gomez*; Mary Ellen Goodman˚; Robert Goolrick*; Mary Alice Gordon*; Beatrice Gottlieb˚; Lisa Govan; Lillian Grable; Barbara Graham*; Francine du Plessix Gray*; Jeffrey S. Green˚; Lorna Greenberg˚; Melinda Greenblatt˚; Alexis Greene*; Joan Grenier; Constance Grey˚; Lauren Groff*; George Gudauskas˚; Judith Guest*; David Guterson*; Marilyn Hacker*; Sheldon Harnick*; Y. M. Hartman*; Molly Haskell*; Adam Haslett*; Charles Hatfield*; Douglas Haynes˚; Chris Hedges*; Robert L. Hemphill; Beth Henley*; Eileen B. Hennessy˚; Lolita Hernandez*; Joanna Hershon*; Robert Hershon*; Anne Hettinger; Oscar Hijuelos*; Kathleen Hill*; Joyce Hinnefeld*; Parul Hinzen˚; Joanne Lauck Hobbs; Gail Hochman*; Andrew Holleran; Gail Holst-Warhaft*; Phoebe Hoss˚; Cheryl Willis Hudson*; Cheryl Willis Hudson*; Violaine Huisman*; Gwyn Hyman Rubio*; Important Gifts, Inc.; Perri Beth Irvings˚; Rashidah Ismaili*; Shelley Jackson*; Jennifer Jilks; Marthe Jocelyn*; Joy Johannessen*; Rebecca Johns*; Sharon Johnson˚; Diane Johnson*; Hettie Jones*; Barbara Jordan*; Norton Juster*; Mira Kamdar*; James Kantner; Temma Kaplan*; Stanley Karnow*; Frances Kaye; Sheila Keenan*; Matt Kelley; Maurice Kenny*; Judith Kerman*; Stephen Kessler*; Daniel Kevles*; Joy Jones Keys; Hanhwe Kim; Eric A. Kimmel*; Kathy Kirk; Francine Klagsbrun*; Tina Kover*; Rekha Krishnamurthi; Maxine Kumin*; Jeffrey Kutler˚; George LaCas˚; Rosa Lacen; Phyllis LaFarge Johnson*; David Lahm & Julie Kreston; G. Evelyn Lampart˚; Nathaniel Lande*; Patricia LaPointe˚; Robert Lasner*; Isaac Steele Lassiter˚; Kathleen R. Lawrence*; Sydney Lea*; Eric Gabriel Lehman*; Herbert Leibowitz*; Christopher T. Leland*; Phillis Levin*; Gail Carson Levine*; Madeline G. Levine*; Thomas C. Lewis*; John L’Heureux*; Warren Liebesman˚; Grace Lin*; Michael Lindgren˚; Vicki Lindner*; Arturo Lindsay; Barbara Lingens; Romulus Linney*; Roger Lipsey*; Sam Lipsyte*; Larry Lockridge*; Lorraine Lopez*; Adriana López*; Thomas Loretta˚; Jennifer Lutterbie; Susan Lyne˚; David Major*; Gary Marx; Joyce Maynard*; Pamela McAllister; Jean McCabe; Jill McCorkle*; Edna McCown*; Fran McCullough*; Lavern McDonald; Maggie & David McGirr; James A. McPherson*; D. H. Melhem*; David & Joan Mendel; Valerie Miles*; Stephen Miller*; Rebecca Miller*; Nicolaus Mills*; Eugene Mirabelli*; Jerilyn Miripol˚; David Misch˚; Fred Misurella˚; Anna Mockler˚; Jim Moore*; Mary McGarry Morris*; James Morrow*; Howard F. Mosher*; Thylias Moss*; Laura Mullen*; Eleanor Munro*; Barbara Beasley Murphy*; Edward Mycue; Phyllis Nagy*; Elyse Nass*; New Directions Publishing; Myrna Nieves*; Barbara Novak*; Stanley Noyes*; Debra Nystrom*; Avodah K. Offit*; Susan Olson; Gertrude Oothout*; Linda O’Reilly˚; Joe Osterhaus*; Hans Ostrom*; Sally Otos; Michelle Padget˚; Nell Irvin Painter*; Richard Panek*; Edith Parga˚; G. E. Patterson*; Caroline Patterson; Ellen Peckham˚; Joan Peyser*; Gloria Phares*; Robert Phillips; Daniel Pinkwater*; Jill Pinkwater*; Helene Podziba˚; Marie Ponsot*; Kym Ragusa˚; Chris Raschka*; Robin Raybould; Ishmael Reed*; Alastair Reid*; Nelly Reifler*; Edward J. Renehan*; Shelley Rice*; Eléna Rivera*; Hazel Rochman*; Barbara Romaine*; Paul Rosenfield; Lucy Rosenthal*; Cynthia Boyd Rush˚; Albert Russo*; Mary Ann Ryan˚; Oneida Sanchez˚; Lauren Sanders*; Victoria Sanford*; Mark Sarvas*; Jeannine Savard*; Lauret Savoy˚; Valerie Sayers*; Michael Scammell*; Deborah Schneider*; Ben Schrank*; Rainer Schulte*; Philip Schultz*; Caroline Seebohm*; Charles Seife*; Bob Shacochis*; Jeffrey Shandler*; Harvey Shapiro*; Jeffrey & Darcie Sharlein˚; James Shearwood; Marsha Lee Sheiness*; Ashley Shelby*; Delia Sherman*; Kashmira Sheth*; Joan Silber*; Jane Simon˚; Barbara Sjoholm*; Brian Smith˚; David Smith*; George Smith; William Jay Smith*; Ann Snitow*; Ann Snodgrass*; Peter Sourian*; Sarah Sousa˚; Stephanie Spinner*; Charlene Spretnak*; Susanne Stahl; Peter Stambler*; Suzanne Fisher Staples*; Denny Stein˚; Mary Sternbach˚; Carla Stevens Bigelow*; Jay Stilwell;

P en A m e r i c an c ente r ann u a l r ep o r t 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 3 5 << p r e v i o u s NEXT >> Barbara Stone*; Patricia Storace*; Monica Strauss˚; Joseph Peter Strelka*; Elizabeth Strout*; Ettie Taichman˚; Katherine Tam; William Taubman˚; Thomas Teal*; Stacia Thompson; Susan Thomsen*; Madeline Tiger*; Lynne Tillman*; Natasha Trethewey*; Anna-Rose Tykulsker˚; Lisa Vanderhoof; Alexandra Vassilaros*; Neela Vaswani*; Vera Vento; Robert Viscusi*; Stephen Walt*; Shelley Wanger*; Roxanne Warren; Kathryn Watterson*; Gerald Weales*; Regina Weinreich*; Lawrence Weschler*; Bert Axel Westerstrom˚; Thomas Weyr*; David White˚; Kimberly Whiting; Wallis Wilde-Menozzi*; Wilder Family Foundation; Kirstie Willean; Tami Williams˚; Lanford Wilson*; Christine Wiltz*; Ronna Wineberg*; Linda Winston*; Hilma Wolitzer*; Meg Wolitzer*; Margaret Wu; Paul O. Zelinsky*; Richard Zink˚

Matching gifts AXA Foundation; Ford Foundation Matching Gifts Program; Goldman, Sachs & Company Matching Gift Program; Random House Matching Gifts Program

2 0 1 0 a U t h o r s ’ E v e n i n g s H o s t s

Joan Bingham*; Mary Breasted & Ted Smyth; Maria B.* & Woody Campbell; Susan W. Dryfoos*; Barbara Gimbel; Wendy Gimbel* & Douglas Liebhafsky; Lorna & Edwin Goodman; Nancy˚ & Charles˚ Hoppin; Amy Jedlicka; Frances* & Howard Kiernan; Stephanie LaCava & Bryan Weiss; Anne Landsman* & James Wagman; Joshua L. Mack & Ron Warren; Hugh Malone; Michael & Yvonne Marsh; Tom & Diahn McGrath; Susan & Robert Morgenthau; Steven* & Anne Pleshette Murphy; Elizabeth˚ & Christian˚ Oberbeck; Roxana* & Hamilton Robinson; Timothy Seldes* & Susan Shreve; David & Shelley Sonenberg; Eve Stuart˚; John* & Louisa Troubh; Danielle Truscott-Kaufman & Andy Kaufman; Margo & Anthony Viscusi; Jeanette Watson Sanger* & Alexander Sanger; Davis Weinstock˚ & Elizabeth Hawes Weinstock*; Jacqueline Weld* & Rodman Drake

2 0 1 0 a U t h o r s ’ E v e n i n g s C o n t r i bu t i o n o f B o o k s

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