University of Rhode Island DigitalCommons@URI Iannone, Carol: Letters Opposing Nomination of Education: National Endowment for the Arts and (1991) Humanities, Subject Files I (1973-1996) 1991 Iannone, Carol: Letters Opposing Nomination of (1991): Correspondence 52 Larry McMurtry Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/pell_neh_I_33 Recommended Citation McMurtry, Larry, "Iannone, Carol: Letters Opposing Nomination of (1991): Correspondence 52" (1991). Iannone, Carol: Letters Opposing Nomination of (1991). Paper 32. http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/pell_neh_I_33/32 This Correspondence is brought to you for free and open access by the Education: National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, Subject Files I (1973-1996) at DigitalCommons@URI. It has been accepted for inclusion in Iannone, Carol: Letters Opposing Nomination of (1991) by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@URI. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PEJ\l American Center 568 Broadway, New York, New York 10012 (212) 334-1660/Cables: Acinterpen New York/Fax: (212) 334-2181 Presi~;,,nt Larry McMurtry Vice Presidents Robert Caro Edmund Keeley Susan Sontag Robert Stone Meredith Tax Secretary Betty Fussell May 9, 1991 Treasurer Lionel Tiger Executive Board Dore Ashton Ken Auletta Sven 81rkerts The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman Sara Blackburn Naomt Bliven Committee on Labor and Human Resources Magda Bogin Patricia Bosworth United States Senate Joseph Brodsky Wesley Brown Washington, DC 20510-6300 Hortense Callsher Jerome Charyn Amy Clampitt Dear Senator Kennedy: Joel Conarroe Jayne Cortez Barbaratee Oiamonste1n E. L. Doctorow I write to express the concerns of the Executive Board of the PEN American Jules Fe1lfer Frances FitzGerald Center in regard to the nomination of Carol Iannone for a seat on the NEH Sanford Friedman Charles Fuller National Council for the Humanities. Paula Giddings Allen Ginsberg Peter Glassgold Barbara Goldsmith Our concern is that Carol lannone's appointment to the Council is premature. Mary Gordon Marilyn Hacker Members of the Council are charged with advising the Chairperson in regard to a Robert Hass wide range of programs, policies, and procedures. The post is an important one; Nat Hentotf Eva Hoffman those selected for it have usually established distinguished records in the Anne Hollander Maureen Howard · humanities: scholarly, administrative, or creative. David Henry Hwang John Irving Susan Jacoby Lucy Kom1sar As her curriculum vitae makes clear, Carol lannone's contributions in these areas Eric Kraft Steven Kroll have so far been slight. A few book reviews, three or four scholarly essays, some Martha Weinman Lear Romulus Linney teaching, and a little editorial work do not, in our view, qualify her for this very Eileen Lettman Robert F. Lucid important post. Cynthia Macdonald Mary Mackey Norman Mailer Pamela McCorduck We believe that the health of the NEH -- and, consequently, the cultural health of Louise Meriwether Arthur Miller the nation itself -- wouiu be better serv~d by ~n appointee whose ~xperience is Mary Morris more extensive and whose own contribution to the work of the humanities more Victor Navasky Sidney Offit substantial. Grace Paley Raymond Patterson Kathrin Perutz Charles Rembar Carol R1nzler Edward Said Faith Sale Kirkpatrick Sale Jonathan Schell Harvey Shapiro -1M-~d Susan Richards Shreve Alix Kates Shulman cMurtry Rose Styron I William Styron Gay Talese Martin Tucker Robert Towers Kurt Vonnegut Edmund White Leon Wieselt1er Hilma Wolitzer General Counsel Leon Friedman PEN American Center. a non-profit incorporauon. Advisor/Freedom to Write 1s an affiliate of International PEN: an assoc1at1on of writers Floyd Abrams - poets. playwrights. essayists. editors. novelists- with centers 1n Europe. Asia. Africa. Executive Director Karen Kennerly Australia and the Americas .