New York PEN America, facing ongoing criticism over its response to the Mideast war, gathers for annual gala The gala, which is the organization's major fundraiser, raised more than $2 million ...

According to PEN America, 4,349 books were banned from schools between July and December 2023, more than the entire previous school year. More than 3,000 of those bans were in Florida.

According to a new study by nonprofit organization PEN America, schools have seen a 200% increase in book banning from 2023-2024. These are the books that have been most-banned during the 2023 ...

At the PEN America Literary Awards, David Sedaris, Judith Thurman and others discussed the role A.I. could play in literature. By Anna Grace Lee On Thursday evening, more than 1,000 writers ...

PEN America’s 2025 Literary Gala did not merely acknowledge this truth. It embodied it. Held beneath the haunting majesty of the 21,000-pound blue whale at the American Museum of Natural ...

Rhode Island signed into law the Freedom to Read Act on July 10. The law is the first to guarantee writers and readers a ...

PEN America, the century-old free speech organization, brought in Ruffin to host soon after the WHCA withdrew its invitation, contending it wanted to focus on the achievements of journalism.

PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, released data in the fall that found more than 10,000 instances of schools or their districts removing books from ...

Internal emails show how education ministry staff compiled pages of book titles that could be restricted through new content ...

PEN America and the authoritarian spirit. For writers living under an authoritarian regime, the price of intellectual independence is clear—censorship, prison, exile—but so is its value.

PEN America says in the 2023-24 school year, it found more than 10,000 instances of book bans, double from the year before. The ALA counts challenges to books from the media and librarians, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel “Nineteen Minutes," a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of ...