Award-Winning Documentary Screening, Expert Panel, and Community Bookstore Unite in DC for MLK Day 40th Anniversary ...

At least eight states are trying to crack down on attempts to remove books in school libraries, passing legislation that ...

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the book that inspired the hit musical and blockbuster adaptation ...

The novelist Dinaw Mengestu will lead the literary group at a time of escalating threats to free expression at home and abroad. By Jennifer Schuessler The novelist Dinaw Mengestu was elected president ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Writers in U.S. prisons will have a new path to getting their work seen through a website managed by PEN America that includes information on publishers, agents, journalists and other ...

Amber Ruffin looked out upon hundreds of writers, publishers and editors gathered for PEN America’s annual gala and shared her experience of being on the receiving end of censorship. “I’m officially a ...

For Pink, it’s time to turn the page on book banning. The star teamed up with literary nonprofit PEN America and Florida bookseller Books & Books to give away 2,000 banned books at her upcoming ...

Ruffin's new gig with PEN America comes after the White House Correspondents Association excluded her from its annual dinner. After the White House Correspondents Association axed Amber Ruffin from ...

The majority of books banned last school year highlighted stories featuring people of color and LGBTQ+ characters and subjects. A recent analysis of thousands of banned titles by PEN America found ...

Authors Jodi Picoult and Dinaw Mengestu will serve as literary co-chairs of the event Daniele Venturelli/Getty; Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage Sarah Jessica Parker is set to be honored by PEN America ...