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board of trustees 2011

k. anthony appiah, PresidentJohn troubh, Executive Vice President

ron chernow, Vice PresidentVictoria redel, Vice Presidentmaria b. campbell, Treasurerroxana robinson, Secretary

susan bernofskyed burlingame

anne burtron chernow

morgan entrekinwendy Gimbel peter Godwin

Jeri Laber Joanne Leedom-ackerman

claudia menzaJohn oakes

christian oberbeckTess O’Dwyer

hannah pakula

walter pozentheresa rebecksusanna reich

hamilton robinson, Jr.esmeralda santiago

elissa schappellclinton ives smullyan Jr.

rose styronannette tapertLynne tillman

monique truongdanielle truscottdavis weinstockJacob weisberg

General CounselLeon friedman

Executive Directorsteven L. isenberg

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staff 2011antonio aiello, Website Editor

emma connolly, Executive AssistantJasmine davey, Membership, Literary Awards, & Writers’ Fund Coordinator

robyn deshotel, Director of Finance & Administrationalena Graedon, Manager of Membership & Literary Awards

david haglund, Managing Editor, PEN America & Communications Coordinatorsarah hoffman, Freedom to Write Coordinator

steven L. isenberg, Executive Directormeghan kyle-miller, Development Associate

stacy Leigh, Readers & Writers and Open Book Directorchuck Leung, Associate Website Editor

m mark, Editor, PEN AmericaLinda morgan, Director of Developmentdeji olukotun, Freedom to Write Fellow

László Jakab orsos, Director of the PEN World Voices Festival & Public Programs Jessica rotondi, Executive Assistant & Social Media Associate

Larry siems, Freedom to Write & International Programs Directorstefanie simons, Readers & Writers Associate

tim smalls, Prison Writing Mentorship Program CoordinatorJackson taylor, Prison Writing Program Director

elizabeth weinstein, PEN World Voices Festival & Public Programs Manager


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weLcome Letter Dear PEN Members and Friends,

As recent events across the globe have shown—the continued imprisonment of Liu Xiaobo, the abhorrent record of violence against journalists in Mexico, the thrilling citizen protests at the heart of the Arab Spring, attempts by repressive governments to control the spread of information through new media—PEN American Center’s mission remains vitally relevant. In 2011, writers under threat in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Ecuador, Tibet, Syria, and several other countries reached out to PEN for support and assistance as we continued our efforts to free imprisoned writers and journalists, challenge torturers, mobilize writers as human rights advocates, challenge First Amendment violations, and create, through our public programs, a bridge across cultural divisions.

We are enormously grateful to all those who make our work possible: our Members and Associate Members, individual donors, foundation, corporate, and government supporters, programming partners, and our dedicated staff, volunteers, and interns. 2011 brought some important new support in the form of a grant from the Ford Foundation, PEN’s first, which expanded our free expression campaigns in Russia, South Africa, and Haiti. A challenge grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for a complete overhaul of PEN.org will strengthen our freedom of expression and human rights advocacy and allow for wider dissemination of our public programs. The new site will be launched in beta in the fall of 2012, with the full launch to take place a few months later.

highlights of the past year include:

• the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival, which brought together 150 participants from 30 countries, including Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua), Elif Shafak (Turkey), Vladimir Sorokin (Russia), and Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), and received unprecedented press coverage

• the “Reckoning with Torture” project, which seeks to document the United States’ use of torture to help restore this country’s credibility as a defender of human rights, grew in its national impact as it teamed with filmmaker Doug Liman for a documentary film project and performances at the Sundance Film Festival , featuring Robert Redford and Ellen Barkin, and at Lincoln Center , featuring Dianne Wiest and Lili Taylor

• the PEN public program with Liao Yiwu , the “Studs Terkel” of China, in August 2011, marking his first appearance in the U.S. after escaping from China. Liao was slated to participate in the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival, but was barred from travelling by the Chinese government

• the PEN delegation to Beijing, which met with both dissident and “official writers,” pressed the cases of dozens of writers and journalists currently imprisoned, created the framework for ongoing Independent Chinese PEN Center/PEN American Center campaigning on China, including preparations for a major report, and celebrated ICPC’s 10th anniversary

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My dear colleague was very eager to send her personal message tonight, however, in prison, she is even deprived of prisoner’s rights…and could not send her message…I proudly accept the prize on her behalf and thank all those who respect freedom of expression, not only in their own countries, but all over the world.Next year, 2012, we will celebrate PEN American Center’s 90th anniversary. It as an important benchmark, both for the durability of the idealism of PEN American Center’s founding principles and for the generosity of those who sustain our work.

With warm regards,

• PEN’s presence at the Nobel Prize ceremony for Liu Xiaobo and our own relentless campaign for his release from prison. Read Freedom to Write Program Director Larry Siems’ dispatch from Oslo here

• the “Honor Courage” campaign, an initiative to gain public recognition for the American servicemen and women, intelligence officers, and other public officials who fought to stop the abuse and torture of prisoners in U.S. custody

2011 also marked the 25th anniversary of the 1986 PEN Congress in New York, described as “a gathering of writers that has become a literary legend ” by Salman Rushdie, who was inspired by the Congress to create the PEN World Voices Festival. Presided over by Arthur Miller and then-PEN President Norman Mailer, participants explored literature as, in Salman’s words, “a lofty, transnational, transcultural force, that could in [Saul] Bellow’s great formulation, ‘open the universe a little more.’” Among those attending were Rushdie, Günter Grass, Wole Soyinka, Mario Vargas Llosa, Saul Bellow, Raymond Carver, E.L. Doctorow, Toni Morrison, Edward Said, William Styron, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, Czeslaw Milosz, Ryszard Kapu ́s ci ́n ski, Nadine Gordimer, and J. M. Coetzee. We honored this anniversary during the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival at a symposium with writers addressing the responsibilities of writer-intellectuals today, opened by Toni Morrison’s stirring argument for literature as a bulwark of truth, reason, and imagination to move a society forward. Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, accepted the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award on behalf of Nasrin Sotoudeh at the 2011 Gala, expressing gratitude to all members of the PEN community for this opportunity to put pressure on the government of Iran for Sotoudeh’s release:

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freedom to write From crowds filling public squares in the Middle East and demanding an end to authoritarian rule to spontaneous social media protests against official malfeasance in China, 2011 was a remarkable year for freedom of expression, a year that saw both the power of the Internet to advance this essential right and the extremes to which some governments will go to keep this right in check. Around the world, PEN members were on the front lines of the push for a greater voice for the people. In Tunisia, journalist and human rights activist Sihem Bensedrine returned home from exile to help build a freer press the day the Ben Ali government fell, and writer and archivist Emad Abu Ghazi was named Minister of Culture in post-Mubarak Egypt. In China, Ye Du and Teng Biao helped lead a wave of Internet activism in their country and paid a heavy price for their courage.

Defending fellow PEN members and all those working to protect and expand the freedom to write is PEN’s international network of 144 centers in more than 100 countries. As the largest of these PEN affiliates, PEN American Center is making a difference every day in the lives of writers and journalists all over the world. Through joint campaigns with PEN partners in countries with acute free expression challenges, the use of our Rapid Action Network that mobilizes actions in support of writers facing imminent threats or imprisonment, and our groundbreaking multimedia initiatives to preserve and promote respect for core human rights values in the United States, PEN American Center staff and members are challenging the censors, preventing disappearances, stopping the hands of torturers, and pressing for the release of all who have been jailed simply for what they have written.

Highlights of PEN’s advocacy work this past year follow:

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Building on three years of joint campaigning with the Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC), PEN American Center led an international delegation to Beijing and Hong Kong in July 2011 to press for the release of former ICPC President and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and more than 40 other writers, journalists, and bloggers currently imprisoned in China. The visit followed a major crackdown on free expression activists in China that included two prominent ICPC members jailed or disappeared: Ye Du, ICPC’s webmaster; and Teng Biao, a prominent human rights lawyer and ICPC’s legal consultant. Both were subsequently released, but faced continued restrictions on their movements and activities throughout the year.

During the delegation’s visit, its members had an opportunity to witness first-hand the dynamic tug-of-war between China’s citizens and its censors. As a result, in December, PEN was once again invited to share its assessment of the climate for free expression at a hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China on Capitol Hill.


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One of the year’s most dramatic stories involved a third ICPC member targeted in the government’s February 2011 crackdown. Poet and nonfiction writer Liao Yiwu was barred from leaving the country to appear at the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature in April. In July, Liao managed to elude authorities and leave China, eventually resettling in Germany with PEN’s assistance. He is finally able to work and write freely, and in September, Liao made his first U.S. appearance at a sold-out PEN American Center event in New York City. (Please see the public programs section for more information about this event.)

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PEN has been working for several years to counter an initiative at the United Nations to ban expression considered defamatory to religions and permit the kinds of prohibition on blasphemy that have led to the persecution of writers in a number of countries. 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 clearly would stifle creative freedom. PEN’s sustained advocacy efforts paid off in March 2011, when countries favoring the restrictions abandoned their efforts and supported instead a new initiative to promote religious tolerance that keeps free expression protections intact.

Thanks to a new grant from the Ford Foundation that is funding our inaugural Freedom to Write Fellow position, PEN was also able to expand its entire U.N. advocacy program. As an accredited human rights NGO with observer status, PEN routinely protests rights abuses within the United Nations’ human rights apparatus. With the additional staff resources, PEN was able to make formal representations to the U.N. protesting threats to writers and freedom of expression in Somalia, Thailand, Venezuela, Syria, Tunisia, South Africa, Bahrain, and Ecuador.

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PEN acted on behalf of 888 writers in 90 countries in 2011, working to secure their release from prison, forestall harsh treatment, and protect them from threat of arrest, prosecution, or physical attack. Eighty-five of these writers and journalists re gained their freedom, including:

• Vietnamese writer and PEN American Center Honorary Member Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, who was arrested in 2009 and sentenced to three and a half years in prison on

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trumped-up assault charges. Intense international pressure led to her release in July 2011, and she has since safely relocated with her daughter to the United States.

• Burmese comedian and poet and PEN American Center Honorary Member Maung Thura, known as Zargana, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for criticizing government relief efforts following Cyclone Nargis. Zargana’s release in October signaled the beginning of a wave of releases of Burmese writers whose cases PEN had been pressing, including 2010 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award recipient Nay Phone Latt.

• Uzbek journalist and PEN American Center Honorary Member Dzamshid Karimov, who was disappeared following his coverage of the killing of civilians during demonstrations in the city of Andijan in 2006. It later became clear he was being jailed in a psychiatric hospital. Karimov was released in November, shortly after a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. PEN had petitioned Clinton to lobby for his release.

PEN American Center was honored to present the 2011 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award to Nasrin Sotoudeh, a writer, lawyer, and leader of the women’s and children’s rights movement in Iran. Sotoudeh, arrested on September 4, 2010, has been imprisoned for her outspoken advocacy in defense of her clients arrested after the June 2009 presidential elections. Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, accepted the Award on Sotoudeh’s behalf at the 2011 PEN Literary Gala. Five months after the ceremony, Sotoudeh’s 11-year sentence was reduced to six. She still has four years left to serve.

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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, the Emergency Fund delivered direct financial assistance to writers from Ethiopia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, and Cuba.


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campaiGn for core freedoms

Launched in 2003, PEN’s Campaign for Core Freedoms is an advocacy campaign that targets threats to freedom of expression posed by anti-terrorism and national security policies in the United States.

in 2011, the campaign focused on three areas of concern:

• Curtailing excessive surveillance programs The Campaign for Reader Privacy—PEN’s joint initiative with 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. Meanwhile, a U.S. court of appeals ruled in March that PEN’s lawsuit challenging the NSA’s secret telephone and Internet surveillance program could proceed to trial.

• Ending ideological exclusion PEN won an important victory in its efforts to end the practice of denying visas to foreign writers or scholars on political grounds when it received assurances from the U.S. Department of State in January that it will give “significant and sympathetic weight” to applications from writers seeking to fulfill speaking engagements in the United States.

• Promoting accountability for human rights abuses PEN’s signature advocacy project for 2011 was the groundbreaking “Reckoning With Torture” film project, a joint initiative of PEN, the ACLU, and acclaimed director Doug Liman that promotes accountability by encouraging public readings from declassified documents that detail the abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody since September 11, 2001. Liman staged and filmed “Reckoning” readings at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and at Lincoln Center in New York featuring prominent writers, actors, and former military and intelligence officials. PEN is now working with Liman and the ACLU to expand the project into a national grassroots campaign that invites ordinary Americans around the country to stage and film their own “Reckoning” readings and submit the footage for inclusion in a full-length “Reckoning With Torture” film. (Please see the public programs section for more information about “Reckoning” events.)


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2011 pen worLd Voices festiVaL of internationaL Literature

The [PEN World Voices Festival] is a bold reminder that writing is not just a leisure art resulting in a commodity, but an instrument of change, a tool for probing everything from revolution to the human psyche, and a vital bridge between nations and individuals...the Festival’s character is really shaped by the dozens of writers less familiar to Americans, introducing audiences to new texts, new experiences, and shared concerns about human rights and other key issues of our time. —Sarah Montague, producer of WNYC’s “Selected Shorts” “Written On the Water, Heard In the Wind: PEN World Voices Festival”


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The 2011 PEN World Voices Festival, held April 25th through May 1st, featured 150 participants from 30 countries who shared insights on today’s critical political, social, and cultural matters. Writers such as Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua), Yael Hedaya (Israel), Rula Jebreal (Palestine), Hanif Kureishi (UK), Colum McCann (Ireland), Toni Morrison (US), Amélie Nothomb (Belgium), Vladimir Sorokin (Russia), Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), and Elif Shafak (Turkey) drew attention to other important writers well known in their own countries but unfamiliar to most Americans.

Through the generosity of two major sponsors, PEN World Voices had a geographic center for the first time in 2011: The Standard, New York and the High Line. The majority of international participants lodged at the Standard, and, although events took place all over the city, many were held at the hotel, on the High Line, and in the surrounding community.

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The more than 50 events ranged from programs on the perilous state of free expression in Russia and China, the extraordinary changes in the Arab world, and the issues arising from WikiLeaks’ release of classified information; to performances by master international storytellers and poets; to a special one-day conference led by Toni Morrison on the moral responsibility of writer-intellectuals. Morrison said, in her keynote address:

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As a simultaneous investigation of human character in time, in context, and in space, [literature], in metaphorical and expressive language, organizes the disorienting influences of excess of realities, heightened realities, virtual realities…[It] refuses and disrupts passive or controlled consumption of the spectacle designed to nationalize identity in order to sell us products…I sometimes think that authors don’t know how valuable they are to the culture, to the world, in making language work. ”

“This subject of the responsibility of writers was addressed by many Festival participants: from Wole Soyinka, “Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development, thus it must be safeguarded”; from the young Arab writers and journalists (paraphrasing), “After the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. and the economic turndown in Europe, we realized that we could no longer escape from responsibility

and had to create our own ‘West’ at home”; from Vladimir Sorokin, “In the days of Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev, and Yeltsin, I was constantly trying to suppress the responsible citizen in me. I was influenced by the Moscow (artist) underground, where it was common to be apolitical. This was one of our favorite anecdotes: As German troops marched into Paris, Picasso sat there and drew an apple. That was our attitude – you must sit there and draw your apple, no matter what happens around you. I held fast to that principle until I was 50. Now the citizen in me has come to life.”

The Festival drew live audiences of 12,000 and reached more than 250,000 people online. The reach of the Festival was extended once again with events in twelve U.S. cities featuring thirteen up-and-coming international writers, including Yan Lianke (China), Kyung-sook Shin (Korea), Hervé le Tellier (France), and Leila Aboulela (Sudan). A majority of Festival events are available for download as video or audio files on the PEN website.

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For the first time, PEN created daily Festival e-books (compatible with Kindle, iPhone, iPad, Nook, and most other e-readers), which provided “a literary mixtape” of writing from Festival participants. The seven e-books, which include pieces by Malcolm Gladwell, Arnon Grunberg, Hervé Le Tellier, Carmen Boullosa, Edmund White, Elif Shafak, Kyung-sook Shin, and Vladimir Sorokin, among other writers, are available for download on the PEN website.

2011 festival highlights included:

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Novelists Rick Moody and Sandro Veronesi joined editor Michael Pietsch for a consideration of The Pale King, a work left unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace’s death. Karen Green, Wallace’s wife, gave all manuscripts, computer files, and notebooks to Pietsch, who had edited each of Wallace’s books since Infinite Jest. Pietsch then spent two years piecing together the novel. Moderated by Laura Miller, Salon.com’s book editor, the panel discussed topics including “the decency of suffering” and Pietsch’s role in creating The Pale King.

The conversation is available in its entirety on the PEN website.

R e V o l u t i o n A R i e s i n t h e A R A b W o R l dApril 27, 2011—92nd St Y

Before a full house at the 92nd St Y, Alex Nunns, editor of Tweets from Tahrir—a collection of key tweets leading to the start of Egyptian revolution in January 2011—joined Palestinian author/journalist Rula Jebreal (Miral), blogger Issandr El Amrani (The Arabist), Moroccan writer Abdellah Taia, and Moroccan-Dutch writer Abdelkader Benali to explore the recent sweeping political changes in the Arab world. They explored topics such as the changing role of the public intellectual and how social media and citizen journalism galvanized the revolution. In the words of Benali: “For the first time people are not just whispering ‘no!’ or shouting ‘no!’ in private, they are shouting ‘no!’ in public!”

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c h i n A i n t W o A c t s April 28, 2011—The Cooper Union’s great hall

Zha Jianying, new Yorker contributor and author of several books in Chinese and English, began the evening with a 30-minute presentation on the polarized political order and cultural forces that are shaping China now. After her remarks, she joined Ian Buruma, nonfiction author and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College; fiction writer Yan Lianke of China; Dutch journalist Linda Polman; and American journalist David Rieff to discuss topics including the U.S.’s debt to China, China’s reaction to Liu Xiaobo being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, censorship, and the charges against artist Ai Wei Wei. About human rights in China, Zha said:


A m e R i c A n e x i l e : t h e p R i s o n i n d u s t Ry April 30, 2011—The Cooper Union The prison industry has become a profitable social solution. It hides and silences a disproportionate number of men and women of color. Their incarcerations, as well as those of political resisters and radicals, purport to isolate dangerous criminal activity from the rest of society, but all too often

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“The questions of values and human rights lie not outside China but in China. And with the Chinese people and the Chinese leaders. This is about their life and their future. nowhere else have these issues been debated and fought with as much passion and with a wider array of positions, the views as polarized and complicated as the situation. And the characters involved are four dimensional, not black and white.








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they disguise social injustice. The panel of experts offering ways to reform this inequitable system of punishment and ever-burgeoning industry included: Michelle Alexander, a longtime civil rights advocate, litigator, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness; John Lonergan, retired governor of Ireland’s Mountjoy Prison; Susan Rosenberg, an American radical political activist, educator, and lecturer for social justice; novelist Shahrnush Parsipur, author of Women Without Men; and moderator Jackson Taylor, Director of the PEN Prison Writing Program.


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Nigerian writer, poet, and playwright Wole Soyinka closed the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival with the 6th annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture at the New York Public Library’s Celeste Bartos Forum. WNYC’s Culture Producer Julia Furlan reported that “Soyinka used Humpty Dumpty as a metaphor for dictators across nations and cultures, and likened writing to sorcery. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about his speech, though, is the elevated and elegant language he used to address the freedom of writers both historically as well as in present day.”

Soyinka was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be so honored. In 1994, he was designated UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of African culture, human rights, freedom of expression, media, and communication.

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pubLic proGrams In 2011, 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:

R e c k o n i n g W i t h t o Rt u R e : m e m o s A n d t e s t i m o n i e s F R o m t h e “ WA R o n t e R R o R ”

In 2011, PEN staged two productions of “Reckoning With Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the War on Terror,” directed by renowned film director Doug Liman (Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) and filmed for a forthcoming documentary, also directed by Liman. The first performance took place on January 29th before a sold-out audience at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and the second on May 24th before a sold-out house at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Participating writers and actors, side by side with former interrogators and leading human rights advocates, read excerpts from formerly secret documents, testimonials, and other primary-source materials. At Sundance, participants included America Ferrera, Paul Auster, Annie Proulx, Alex Gibney, George Saunders, Naomi Wolf, Esmeralda Santiago, Sandra Cisneros, Jack Rice, and Matt Alexander. In New York, participants included Russell Banks, Col. Morris Davis, Nick Flynn, Peter Godwin, Beth Gutcheon, Rula Jebreal, Dahlia Lithwick, John Buffalo Mailer, Jack Rice, Lili Taylor, and Dianne Wiest. Artist Jenny Holzer’s work, which incorporates U.S. government documents, provided a backdrop to both readings.

The Sundance Film Festival production is available in its entirety on the PEN website.

V i VA t h e b e l A R u s F R e e t h e At e RJanuary 19, 2011—Le Poisson rouge Two weeks prior to this event, every member of the Belarus Free Theater was either in jail or in hiding. Miraculously, they all made it to New York

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to perform their play Being Harold Pinter as part of the Under the Radar Festival. To celebrate the performers’ trip, PEN invited Tom Stoppard, Billy Crudup, Don DeLillo, and others to join the Belarus Free Theater for an evening of literature and music that would draw attention to the outrages of President Alexander Lukashenko, “Europe’s last dictator,” who has persecuted Belarusian artists and writers. There was a chilling short play by Tom Stoppard about government-sponsored terrorism directed toward writers and journalists, followed by a riveting song, dance, and mime performance portraying the suffering of the Belarus people beneath projections of horrifying quality of life statistics.

This event is available in its entirety on the PEN website.

A n e V e n i n g W i t h l i A o y i W u September 13, 2011— The new School, Tishman Auditorium

PEN American Center was honored to present poet, novelist, musician, and documentarian Liao Yiwu, one of China’s most frequently censored writers, in his first U.S. appearance. Liao Yiwu, who has been called the “Studs Terkel of China” for his vivid literary portraits of ordinary Chinese lives, was denied permission to travel to New York for the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival in the spring of that year, but escaped to Berlin via the Vietnamese border on July 6, 2011. Mr. Liao was imprisoned for four years in the 1990s for his epic poem “Massacre,” a condemnation of the government’s bloody crackdown at Tiananmen Square, and has endured constant harassment since his release. Though all his books are banned in China, he has continued to write. He visited New York on the eve of the publication of his new book god Is red: The Secret Story of how Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China, translated by Wen Huang. Huang, a journalist and author, joined Liao at the event. Not only has Huang been working actively to support and publicize Liao Yiwu’s work since 2001, he has translated Liao’s major works into English. Huang received a PEN Translation Fund Grant in 2007.





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As PEN President Kwame Anthony Appiah noted, “As it gets harder for independent-minded writers to leave China, an opportunity like this to hear directly from a great Chinese writer is an increasingly precious thing.” This evening of music and words included a reading from Liao’s forthcoming book and a performance of the xiao, or Chinese flute, which he learned to play while incarcerated. PEN World Voices Festival founder and chair Salman Rushdie introduced the event and journalist Philip Gourevitch joined Liao for an on-stage interview.

This event is available in its entirety on the PEN website.

b R e A k o u t: V o i c e s F R o m t h e i n s i d e november 9, 2011—The national Arts Club Please see the Prison Writing Program section for a description of this event.

readers & writers Since 1990, Readers & Writers has brought distinguished PEN writers, who are also dynamic teachers and storytellers, to thousands of students from New York City public high schools and provided them with inspiring reading and writing experiences. Through Readers & Writers, PEN promotes a broader exchange of ideas essential to culturally vibrant societies by giving voice to the youth of underrepresented groups. Our goal is to train and encourage future generations of cultural participants—new writers and new audiences for literature.

Readers & Writers distinguishes itself from other literacy programs by the extraordinary resource of participating prominent authors; the quality of session content; the emphasis on becoming a writer as well as a reader; and a generous contribution of books and study materials.

Readers & Writers works first and foremost with a select group of New York City public high schools. These Partner Schools advise PEN staff as they plan each year’s events and activities and participate in the full array of Readers & Writers programming offered each year. In 2011, Partner Schools were: in Brooklyn, Enterprise, Business, and Technology High School and Brooklyn Secondary School for Collaborative Studies; in the Bronx, Marie Curie High School of Nursing and Dreamyard Preparatory School; and, in Manhattan, A. Philip Randolph High School.

in 2011, the program provided approximately 630 students with:

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focused on issues of interest to New York City teens. Workshops in 2012 included “Where is My Voice?,” with poet Geoff Bankowski leading 9th and 10th graders from the Brooklyn Secondary School for Collaborative Study through a series of writing exercises culminating in the creation of sensory poems; and “Pain and Truth” with acclaimed memoirist and playwright Saïd Sayrafiezadeh working with 9th graders from Brooklyn’s Enterprise, Business, and Technology High School following an in-depth discussion of his memoir When Skateboards Will Be Free, which thoroughly engaged the students. Other guest authors included Tom Zoellner, Julie Otsuka, and Moustafa Bayoumi.

• Young Scholars and Literature Events, which feature authors in readings, panel discussions, and conversations, followed by Q&A sessions, and provide opportunities for teens to interact one-on-one with the participants. Events in 2011 included: “Writing the World: An Interview Project for High School Journalists” with journalist and science writer Richard Panek, poet Tony Medina, and novelists Natacha Appanah and Dahlma Llanos Figueroa; and “Borough, Barrio, Block: New York Neighborhoods and How They Got That Way,” featuring Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, author of Harlem is nowhere; novelist and former PEN Trustee Esmeralda Santiago; journalist T.J. English; and writer/performer Michele Carlo, all reflecting on some of the forces—political, social, and historic—that have given rise to the city that we currently know.

• The PEN Writing Institute, which provides a progressive series of writing workshops that simulate a professional writers’ workshop experience. Admitted students meet three times per week at the PEN offices for observational field trips, literature-centered small group meetings, one-on-one review sessions with professional writers, and creative writing workshops. Guest writers included Elinor Lipman, Kekla Magoon, Coe Booth, Victoria Brown, and Roger Sedarat. Writing Institute instructors included Geoffrey Bankowski, Stacey Engels, Elana Bell, Brook Stephenson, and Jacqueline Jones LaMon.

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open book The Open Book program increases the participation of African, Arab, Asian, Caribbean, Latino, and Native American writers within PEN and literary culture at large. In addition to supporting PEN membership outreach, Open Book presented the Open Book Award (described in the Literary Awards section) and worked with the editors of PEN’s website to recruit editors for special features and produce the Poetry Relay, a series of readings and conversations that work to connect contemporary poets to their peers. The relay features a podcast reading by each poet, a conversation that covers the poet’s inspiration and influences, followed by a hand-off to another poet to continue the series.

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 the Freedom to Write Program, and produced the annual PEN Prison Writing Awards, including public celebrity readings to increase the visibility of award winners. More than 1,500 manuscripts were submitted for the 2011 PEN Prison Writing Awards and a total of 35 prizes were awarded in the categories of Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Nonfiction/Essay, and Memoir. Over the course of the year, the PEN Prison Writing Program distributed more than 8,000 copies of the PEN Handbook for Writers in Prison free of charge to men and women serving sentences in prisons throughout the United States. The anthology Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing was reprinted with a new forward and updated biographies of the 51 original contributors. When first released, the new York Times said that the collection contained “a groping authenticity of language…that encourages us to think again about prison life.” Words Over Walls: Starting a Writing Workshop in Prison remains available online and can be downloaded free of charge.

With the help of a new grant from the Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation, the mentorship program will double the number of mentorships it provides to incarcerated men and women around the country. For the first time, inmates who submitted promising work to the annual prison writing contest but did not receive an award are able to receive instruction from professional writers.

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public prison writing events in 2011 included:

b R e A k o u t: V o i c e s F R o m t h e i n s i d eOctober 9, 2011—The national Arts ClubAt the fourth annual fundraiser for the Prison Writing Program, three former prisoners took part in a panel discussion before an audience of 300, reflecting on the vital role that literature played in surviving their incarcerations. Mel Williams, who completed a 15-year sentence just six days before the event, spoke of the discovery he made about himself during a prison poetry class: that he is a poet and he is passionate about Shakespeare (“He’s my bible now”). Susan Rosenberg, whose memoir An American radical: A Political Prisoner in My Own Country was recently published, became a poet and author during her 16 years in prison. Randall Horton served almost five years in prison and is the author of two poetry collections, The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street and The Definition of Place. Williams, Horton, and Rosenberg joined other writers— including poets Cara Benson, Hettie Jones, and Marie Ponsot; novelists John Paul Infante and Tiphanie Yanique; literary agent and Prison Writing Chair Claudia Menza; and Prison Writing Program Director Jackson Taylor— for a reading of prize-winning stories and poems from the PEN Prison Writing Contest. Prison Writing Committee member Cara Benson, who teaches poetry at the Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility in upstate New York, produced the program.

The event is available in its entirety on the PEN website.

internationaL proGramLondon-based PEN International serves as the official secretariat of PEN centers in more than 100 countries around the world. For several years, PEN American Center, the largest of all the centers, has partnered with PEN International to increase the organization’s capacity to carry out its mission of promoting literature and defending freedom of expression on the ground in every region of the world. Over the past year, with a grant from the Ford Foundation to support the inaugural Freedom to Write Fellow, Deji Olukotun, PEN American Center was able to help PEN International expand PEN’s advocacy role at the United Nations on critical policy issues and also assist PEN centers in Russia, Haiti, South Africa, and Mexico in building their capacity to more effectively confront serious challenges to writers and freedom of expression in their countries.

Following a resolution at the 2011 PEN Congress in Serbia in September, PEN American Center has also been spearheading an effort to help PEN’s global membership respond to the unique challenges of free expression in the information age. PEN American Center has prepared the PEN International Draft Declaration on Free Expression and Digital Technologies—a concise statement of PEN’s approach to issues such as digital surveillance and corporate human rights abuses—that will be presented for approval by the organization’s global membership at the PEN Congress in Korea in September 2012.

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PEN AMERICA: a JournaL for writers and readers

For twelve years, PEN American Center’s award-winning literary journal has expanded the reach of the organization’s programs by documenting, interpreting, and preserving evidence of PEN’s important literary and human-rights accomplishments. PEn America publishes adapted transcripts of conversations, literary tributes, and talks delivered at the PEN World Voices Festival and other PEN events along with fiction, poetry, memoir, and essays by authors and translators whose work has been recognized by PEN Literary Awards, Prison Writing Awards, and Translation Fund grants.

In 2011, PEn America published two issues. “The Good Books,” Issue 14, asked writers and readers to imagine they’d been invited to the world’s greatest book swap: “At this make-believe event, you’ll join writers and readers from around the world in on one place (where? when? you tell us) and you’ll bring a beloved book to trade.” Since literary translations make up only 3 percent of what gets published in the U.S. and since PEN is devoted to fostering global understanding, we encouraged forum participants to choose a book originally published in a language other than English. The journal published literary appreciations by more than fifty writers, including Rabih Alameddine, Karen Russell, Eileen Myles, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Wayne Koestenbaum, Srikanth Reddy, Jessica Hagedorn, Amitava Kumar, Paul La Farge,Yiyun Li, David Shields, Meena Alexander, and Gary Shteyngart.

Issue 15, entitled “Maps,” looks at the ways we organize and visualize information. The issue begins with a forum of personal essays by both emerging and established writers including Billy Collins, Heidi Julavits, Colum McCann, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Susan Bernofsky, Ishion Hutchinson, and Amitava Kumar. “Maps” also includes memoir by Mahmoud Darwish, Binyavanga Wainaina, Elif Shafak, and Yvette Louisell, a young woman serving life in prison; fiction by Aleksandar Hemon, Danielle Evans, Samanta Schweblin, and Elvira Dones; poetry by Adonis, Jennifer Tseng, and Crystal Williams; drama by David Henry Hwang; and appreciations of and by the incomparable Roger Angell. As we investigate mapping from a variety of perspectives, PEn America continued its tradition of publishing remarkable art—this time by Matthew Cusick, Wendy MacNaughton, Miru Kim, and other daring young artists.


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LiterarY awardsThe 2011 PEN Literary Awards were presented on October 12th in Proshansky Auditorium at the Graduate Center, CUNY, in New York City. Many of this year’s winners, judges, and speakers were in attendance, including André Aciman, Roger Angell, Susan Cheever, Aleksandar Hemon, Nicole Krauss, Phillip Lopate, Stacy Schiff, Lizzie Skurnick, and Mark Slouka.

PEN presented 17 awards, with prizes ranging from $1,660 to $25,000, including one that was revived after a five-year hiatus, the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Three awards were offered for the first time: the PEN Emerging Writers Awards, the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. Through the generosity of the award sponsors, PEN distributed nearly $150,000 in 2011 to some of the most gifted writers, editors, and translators working today.

pen/robert w. bingham prize ($25,000) honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a first novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise. The 2011 Bingham Prize was shared by two writers: Susanna Daniel for Stiltsville (Harper Perennial) and Danielle Evans for Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Riverhead).

pen/e. o. wilson Literary science writing award ($10,000) recognizes a distinguished book of literary nonfiction on the subject of the physical or biological sciences. The inaugural award was presented to Siddhartha Mukherjee for The Emperor of All Maladies (Scribner).

pen/w. G. sebald award for a fiction writer in mid-career ($10,000) recognizes a mid-career author who has published at least three significant works of literary fiction. The 2011 recipient was Aleksandar Hemon.

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith award for Nonfiction ($10,000) is a biennial award that recognizes a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective, in addition to illuminating important contemporary issues. The 2011 award went to Robert Perkinson for Texas Tough: The rise of America’s Prison Empire (Metropolitan Books).

pen/Laura pels international foundation for theater awards ($7,500) honor a master American dramatist and an American playwright in mid-career. David Henry Hwang was recognized with the Master American Dramatist Award for his body of work, including the plays FOB, M. Butterfly, and Chinglish. Marcus Gardley, whose plays include On the Levee and every tongue confess, was honored with the Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career, and received the $7,500 prize.


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pen/diamonstein-spielvogel award for the art of the essay ($5,000) recognizes a distinguished book of essays that exemplifies the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature. The 2011 award went to Mark Slouka for Essays from the Nick of Time: reflections and refutations (Graywolf Press).

pen/espn award for Literary sports writing ($5,000) recognizes a distinguished book on sports published in the United States. The 2011 award went to George Dohrmann for Play Their Hearts Out (Ballantine Books).

pen/espn Lifetime achievement award for sports writing ($5,000) honors a living American or U.S. based writer whose body of work represents an exceptional contribution to the field of literary sports writing. The inaugural award was given to Roger Angell.

pen/Jacqueline bograd weld award for biography ($5,000) recognizes a distinguished biography possessing notable literary merit. The 2011 award winner was Stacy Schiff for Cleopatra: A Life (Little, Brown & Company).

pen/Joyce osterweil award for poetry ($5,000) is presented in odd-numbered years to an emerging American poet showing promise of further literary achievement. Ishion Hutchinson was presented with the 2011 award for Far District (Peepal Tree Press Ltd.).

pen/nora magid award ($5,000) honors a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have contributed significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits. The 2011 award went to Brigid Hughes, the founding editor of A Public Space.

pen/phyllis naylor working writer fellowship ($5,000) provides a young adult or children’s book author with financial support to help complete a book-length work in progress. The 2011 Fellowship went to Lucy Frank for Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling, a novel in verse.

pen award for poetry in translation ($3,000) is given for a book-length translation of poetry. The 2011 award went to Khaled Mattawa for Adonis: Selected Poems (Yale University Press, The Margellos World Republic of Letters Series).


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pen translation prize ($3,000) is awarded for a distinguished book-length translation from any language into English prose. The 2011 prize went to Ibrahim Muhawi for Journal of an Ordinary grief by Mahmoud Darwish (Archipelago Books).

pen emerging writers awards (Three awards of $1,660 each) recognize a fiction writer, nonfiction writer, and poet who show exceptional talent but have not yet published a book-length work. The fiction prize went to Smith Henderson, the nonfiction prize was presented to David Stuart MacLean, and Adam Day was recognized with the poetry award.

pen open book award ($5,000) is sponsored by the PEN 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. This award celebrates gifted authors whose exceptional works often do not attract the exposure they need or deserve. The 2011 PEN Open Book Award winner was Manu Joseph for Serious Men (W. W. Norton & Company).

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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. In 2011, the PEN Translation Fund Committee was chaired by Michael Moore, and the judges were David Bellos, Susan Bernofsky, Edwin Frank, Michael Reynolds, Natasha Wimmer, and Jeffrey Yang. Grants of $3,000 each were awarded to the following:

• Amiri Ayanna for her translation from Middle High German of The St. Katharinental Sister Book: Lives of the Sisters of the Dominican Convent at Diessenhofen

• Neil Blackadder for his translation from the German of The Test (Good Simon Korach), a play by Swiss dramatist and novelist Lukas Bärfuss

• Clarissa Botsford for her translation from the Italian of Sworn Virgin, a novel by Albanian writer and filmmaker Elvira Dones

• Steve Bradbury for his translation from the Chinese of Salsa, a collection of poems by Taiwanese poet Hsia Yü

• Annmarie S. Drury for her translation from the Swahili of Selected Poems of Euphrase Kezilahabi


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• Diane Nemec Ignashev for her translation from the Russian of Paranoia, a novel by Belarusian author Viktor Martinovich

• Chenxin Jiang for her translation from the Chinese of Memories of the Cowshed, a memoir by Chinese author Ji Xianlin

• Hilary B. Kaplan for her translation from the Portugese of Rilke Shake, a collection of poetry by Brazilian writer Angélica Freitas

• Catherine Schelbert for her translation from the German of Flametti, or the Dandyism of the Poor, a novel by German writer Hugo Ball

• Joel Streicker for his translation from the Spanish of Birds in the Mouth, a collection of short stories by Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin

• Sarah L. Thomas for her translation from the Spanish of Turnaround, a literary thriller by Spanish writer Mar Goméz Glez

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Since 1919, twenty stories have been chosen each year for the annual publication of the O. Henry Prize Stories collection, whose mission is to strengthen the art of the short story. Now in partnership with PEN, the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories collection continues the tradition of recognizing excellence in the short story and encouraging writers and readers alike to celebrate the form. The judges for the 2011 prize were A.M. Homes, Manuel Muñoz, and Christine Schutt. The anthology was edited by Laura Furman.the following writers received this honor in 2011:

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membership A significant adjustment to PEN American Center’s by-laws occurred in 2011 when the Board of Trustees voted and agreed to change PEN’s eligibility requirements for becoming a Professional Member. Whereas previously authors, playwrights, and screenwriters had to have multiple books published or plays produced in order to be eligible to join PEN, the new requirements stipulate that those with at least one published book or one play produced in a professional setting would be eligible. As a result, PEN witnessed a rise in the number new members, including highly acclaimed emerging novelists, poets, and playwrights, in the second half of 2011. In addition, the change in eligibility requirements means that now editors, agents, and publishers, and those who have made a significant contribution to the publishing industry have also joined PEN’s ranks, adding their talents, tastes, and specific skills to illustrate the diversity of PEN’s Membership throughout the literary community

In addition, it was determined that PEN Members will have a one-year grace period following the expiration of their membership in which to submit their dues payment. After a year of nonpayment, they will be considered lapsed Members who are no longer in good standing. Previously, the grace period has been three years. PEN’s Membership numbers declined as a result of no longer including lapsed Members in its roster of active Members. In December 2011, PEN American Center had more than 2,200 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 the nonprofessional tier of Membership, totaled more than 800. This group of committed supporters has been indispensable to PEN, 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: A Journal for Writers and Readers; and thousands signed petitions and were active in PEN’s freedom of expression advocacy campaigns.


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On January 11, 2011, John Oakes, Chair of PEN American Center’s Membership Committee, welcomed 134 new Members at the annual New Members New Books Party, held at powerHouse Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn, to celebrate those who joined PEN in 2010. On November 1, 2011, K. Anthony Appiah and the entire Membership Committee welcomed 184 new Members at 2011’s New Members New Books Party, which was also held at powerHouse Arena. At both events, hundreds of Members and their guests were in attendance to meet with fellow authors, translators, and editors, as well as PEN American Center staff.

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In addition to the change of the by-laws and the subsequent expansion of PEN American Center’s Membership, PEN sponsored opportunities for its members to connect and provided important gathering places for the literary community and the reading public during writers’ conferences and book festivals. PEN American Center host ed tables and booths at the Brooklyn Book Festival (Brooklyn, NY, September 18, 2011); the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference (Washington D.C., February 2-5, 2011); and BookExpo America (New York, NY, May 24-26, 2011).

In addition, PEN hosted several intimate cocktail receptions in its office in SoHo in order to cultivate relationships with new members. In particular, PEN invited MFA students and program directors in anticipation of the AWP conference. PEN also escalated its social media outreach, primarily through Facebook and Twitter, and saw steady growth in followers interested in being a part of PEN’s digital community.

membership committees Created by PEN Members, Membership Committees assume a number of forms, from informal meetings to readings to public discussions. Information about the four principal PEN Member Committees—Children’s/Young Adult Book Authors, Open Book, Prison Writing, and Translation—is presented in their respective sections of this report. In addition, the Women’s Literary Workshop was founded twenty years ago by its current chair, Ilsa Gilbert. In 2011, the Workshop met nine times and hosted its annual readings and reception at the PEN office on September 26, 2011.


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CHilDrEN’s/YOuNG aDulT book authors proGram

The Children’s/Young Adult Book Authors Committee supports writers of work for children and young adults as well as school librarians. The Committee has a particular interest in banned or challenged books and invites reports of any such actions so that a prompt response can be made. Please contact Committee Chair Susanna Reich at [email protected] to make a report.

in 2011, the committee:

• Continued its strong partnership with the Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School, the only school in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward to survive Hurricane Katrina, providing authors for school programs. The Committee was honored to receive a “Drum Major of Education” award at the school’s gala in New Orleans. Committee members Robie Harris, Elizabeth Levy, Fatima Shaik, and Susan Kuklin published The Story Is Us! in collaboration with students from the school in 2009.

• Hosted monthly meetings on topics of interest to writers of children’s literature, including “Found in Translation,” a conversation about the state of translated children’s books in the U.S., led by Scholastic editor Cheryl Klein, and a discussion on “Books for Boys” led by PEN member Robert Lipsyte.

• Produced Public Programs such as “Writing Dangerously” (February 7, 2011, Instituto Cervantes), in which four children’s and young adult authors discussed how they approach controversial subjects, challenge convention, and confront the psychological risks of the creative process.

• Sponsored programs at the PEN World Voices Festival, such as the panel “Who Tells the Story? Children’s Book Writers Talk About Voice,” at which panelists discussed finding an authentic voice for a young character.

• The Committee mourns the loss of its former chair and PEN Board member Steven Kroll and was honored by Steven’s generous bequest to PEN, which funded the PEN/Steven Kroll Award for an American or U.S.-based writer of an exceptional text illustrated in a children’s book, to be presented for the first time in 2012. The Committee also helps to administer the annual PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship for a work-in-progress by an author of fiction for children or young adults, which in 2011 was awarded to Lucy Frank.


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transLation committee

The PEN Translation Committee, chaired by Susan Bernofsky, has an ongoing commitment to promoting the recognition of American translators through public forums, awards, and the annual World in Translation Month celebration each May. The Committee also works to uphold the rights of translators by appealing on behalf of those who are censored or persecuted, and through the initiatives of the Watchdog Subcommittee, which monitors the publishing industry and media to ensure that translators are given full and public credit for their work.

In 2011, the committee met bimonthly to discuss new initiatives and programming opportunities that foster an appreciation of literature in translation and help translators find the resources they need.

over the course of the year, the committee:

• Hosted a workshop on Translation Contract Issues with intellectual property attorney Erach Screwvala

• Produced “Translator Rights/Translator Wrongs,” a panel on copyright/contract issues, at the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival

• Produced the “Translation Slam” at the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival

• Revised the “Model Contract for Translators” and continued writing “Guidelines for Reviewers of Translations” for PEN.org

• Provided blog posts about translation for The Daily PEn American



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PEN wriTErs’ fuND Through the generous support of the Lannan Foundation and PEN Members, the PEN Writers’ Fund gives grants of up to $2,000 to writers, editors, translators, and other literary professionals in acute financial crisis. From January 2011 through December 2011, the Committee allocated $57,454 to 39 applicants suffering from a range of medical and professional emergencies.

Recipients included: a playwright and theater company founder in danger of a utility shutoff that would prevent his home dialysis treatment; a hearing impaired journalist and AIDS activist in need of new hearing aids; a young science writer working on a book about frontotemporal dementia whose PEN grant helped with living expenses so she could continue to assist her mother who suffers from this condition; and a fiction writer and past Guggenheim Fellow facing eviction whose PEN grant allowed him to continue to provide a home for his daughter and two young grandchildren in his care.

In 2011, the Writers’ Fund Committee continued outreach efforts within the literary community to encourage writers in need to apply.

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. In addition to audio and video of PEN’s public programs, visitors also come to PEN.org to find advocacy resources. In 2011, PEN.org attracted 2.4 million visitors worldwide. Recent video production and dissemination has resulted in an explosion of traffic and followings for PEN on social media platforms such as Facebook, Tumblr, 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 2011, PEN videos were watched more than 201,000 times on YouTube. 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 record, edit, and post more than 30 events.




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PEN.org’s communication strategy aims 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 included:

• Podcasts/Audio: Over 150,000 podcasts of PEN programming were downloaded every month. The site regularly podcasts two PEN programs per week.

• Monthly E-Newsletter: We currently have an email list of over 14,700 subscribers who have signed up for ongoing news and information about PEN’s programming and human rights advocacy.

• Media Partnerships: PEN delivered audio recordings of Festival events to be broadcast as podcasts from WNYC New York Public Radio’s website.

• Social Media: PEN.org’s social media platforms actively engage ever-expanding global literary and advocacy communities by publishing breaking news, campaign updates, calls to action, podcasts, and new literature. In 2011 PEN almost tripled the number of its Twitter followers to over 11,300, including The new Yorker’s Book Bench, Margaret Atwood, and Colson Whitehead.

Our Facebook timeline connected our 5,500 followers to a curated feed of PEN literature, multimedia, and events.

PEN’s Tumblr feed, a curated micro blog of news, multimedia, and quotes, was regularly showcased by Tumblr’s editors pushing PEN American Center to the forefront of Tumblr’s literary and advocacy communities. PEN’s Tumblr feed is already ranked as one of the best literary Tumblrs by The Millions .

W e b s i t e o V e R h A u l

With the generous support of The Carnegie Corporation of New York, Google Inc, and the Board of Trustees, PEN American Center is currently undertaking a complete overhaul of PEN.org, the primary point of interaction among PEN’s advocacy and cultural programming, its core constituencies, and the general public. In addition to delivering PEN content to a growing variety of digital devices in a format that will make the site easier to navigate and the pages more easily shared across social networks, the new multimedia platform will also enhance our advocacy tools and the capability to tie into, archive, and link current and past advocacy campaigns, making it easier for advocates, supporters of PEN, and the press to access the timely and historic information they contain.

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http://www.facebook.com/PENamerican

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The overhaul will make thousands of pages of articles, essays, interviews, poetry, dramatic writing, and events from PEN’s 90-year history more readily available to PEN’s audience. Nearly all of PEN’s content from the last eight years is digital. These documents—text, video, and audio—depict the organization’s current and historical efforts to promote literature and literary translation and to defend freedom of expression around the world. They serve as a compelling record of the organization’s longstanding advocacy of imprisoned and persecuted writers and of freedom of expression campaigns.

We are excited to mark PEN’s 90th anniversary in 2012 by strengthening and expanding PEN.org’s capacity to broadcast PEN’s distinct message and content to as broad an international audience as possible.

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pen american center branches The three regional branches of PEN American Center give voice to Members nationwide and provide opportunities for direct engagement in the causes PEN cares about most.

pen new enGLand In 2011, PEN’s New England chapter once again produced a full and remarkable calendar of events promoting a culture of literature, defending freedom of expression, and celebrating the region’s literary community. Highlights included: “Lyrics & Literature,” a conversation with Paul Simon, Paul Muldoon, and Bill Flanagan; the announcement of PEN New England’s Prize for “Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence”; the monthly Writers Series featuring conversations between Christopher Lydon and guest authors from New England such as such as Edith Pearlman, Andre Dubus III, Rosanna Warren, Nicholson Baker, Paul Harding, and Henri Cole; the expansion of Prison Writing Workshops with an increased corps of volunteer teachers; a literary celebration of the 50th anniversary of Cape Cod’s National Seashore featuring Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Alice Hoffman, Dale Peterson, Steven Pinker, and Richard Russo; and the presentation of annual literary awards, including:

• The PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction • The PEN New England/Winship Awards for best New England fiction,

non-fiction, and poetry


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• The Susan P. Bloom Awards, presented at the 13th Annual Children’s Book Discovery evening

• The Henry David Thoreau Prize for literary excellence in nature writing, presented to scientist and author Edward O. Wilson

• The Howard Zinn “People Speak” Award presented to Wendell Berry

All of this and a lot more…including a new home for PEN New England headquarters at MIT, with exciting possibilities for creative collaborations between the PEN and MIT communities.

pen westPEN West hosted seven events in the 2011 season, featuring Helen Benedict, Michael David Lukas, Yiyun Li, Lynn Stegner, Ron Hansen, Dan Bellm, Sandra Gilbert, and Cecile Pineda. Its annual party celebrating PEN members and associates who published books during the year was held June 22nd at the home of PEN West President Brenda Webster. Among the many honorees were Bill Broder, Paula Fass, Joan Frank, Anne O. Fisher, Sandra M. Gilbert, Arlie Hochchild, Ron Hansen, Ericka Lutz, Mary Mackey, Mary Jo McConahay, Edie Meidav, Deborah Mitchell, Victoria Nelson, Larry Rothe, and Victoria Zackheim. About 50 people attended. PEN West is planning a Freedom to Write Event with PEN member Michael David Lukas for next year.

pen northwest PEN Northwest administers the annual Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, the only extended back-country residency in the United States. 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 2011 resident, poet and fiction writer Josie Sigler, was highly productive during her six month residency and is now finishing her PhD at the University of Southern California.

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in memoriam pen mourned the loss of several members in 2011:

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isAbel glAssJeAnnette hopkins

steVen kRollRomulus linney

sidney lumetsVeRRe lyngstAdmoRRis philipson

hAZel RoWley

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 past year and who is not listed here, please contact us so we can remember him or her in our next report.


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fY 11 financiaL report

ContributionsFundraising Benefits (net)Membership DuesParticipant Fees & PurchasesInvestment IncomeMiscellaneousTotal Income

$1,941,547762,101243,395134,138

14,435 5,281$3,100,897

PersonnelProgram ConsultantsEvent & Development ConsultantsProfessional & Administrative FeesRent & OccupancyOffice Supplies & ExpenseElectronic CommunicationsPrint CommunicationsAwards, Grants & Other SupportEvent & Meeting ExpenseTravelBook Purchases & DistributionOther Program ExpenseOther Administrative ExpenseTotal Expenses Before DepreciationSurplus (Deficit) After Depreciation

DepreciationTotal Expense After DepreciationSurplus (Deficit) After Depreciation

$1,496,640204,526

35,86099,034

199,26030,08267,365

159,558277,288234,010220,873

5,82321,283

20,098$3,071,700

$29,197

$51,440 3,123,140

$(22,243)

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The financial information shown above represents unrestricted operating activity for the twelve months from January to December, 2011 and has been derived from our 2011 audited financial statements, which are available from PEN upon request.

FUNDRAISING$444,041

ADMINISTRATION$191,636

PROGRAMS$2,436,023

EXPENSES BEFORE DEPRECIATION$3,071,700

79%

6%

15%

100%

FUNDRAISING$444,041

ADMINISTRATION$191,636

PROGRAMS$2,436,023

EXPENSES BEFORE DEPRECIATION$3,071,700

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donors A list of contributions to PEN American Center from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2011 follows. Contributors include PEN Members (*) and Associate Members (˚) who contributed above membership dues, trustees, individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies. Contributions have been designated for the 2011 PEN Literary Gala, the 2011 PEN Authors’ Evenings, the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival, the 2011 Literary Awards, specific PEN programs, and the PEN general fund. We are enormously grateful to all those who have supported PEN’s work and are delighted to acknowledge their generosity.

$400,000 and aboveThe Kaplen Foundation

$100,000 - $250,000Hachette Book Group; Open Society Institute/The Foundation to Promote Open Society

$50,000 - $99,999The Ford Foundation; The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust; The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; The Lannan Foundation; Steven* & Ann Pleshette Murphy; National Endowment for the Arts; Random House, Inc.; John* & Louisa Troubh; Davis Weinstock & Elizabeth Hawes Weinstock*; The Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation

$25,000 - $49,999Amazon.com; Atlas & Co.; Joan Bingham*; Carnegie Corporation of New York; ESPN; The R.S. Evans Foundation; Wendy Gimbel* & Douglas Liebhafsky; Instituto Cervantes; Barbara Kingsolver; The Arthur Loeb Foundation; Other Press; Penguin Group (USA); The Arthur Ross Foundation; Annette Tapert* & Joseph Allen; Thomson Reuters; Anonymous

$15,000 - $24,999Roger Altman & Jurate Kazickas; Clara Bingham*; Bloomberg; Condé Nast Publications; Barbaralee Diamonstein Spielvogel*; FJC- A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds; Institusjonen Fritt Ord; Barbara L. Goldsmith*/The Barbara L. Goldsmith Foundation; The Marc Haas Foundation; HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.; Steven & Barbara Isenberg; Laurence J.* & Barbara Kirshbaum; Vanessa Lilly; Macmillan; New York State Council on the Arts- a state agency; The new Yorker; The Royal Norwegian Consulate General; The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater; Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature; Simon & Schuster; The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program; Danielle Truscott & Andrew H. Kaufman; The Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation; Anonymous

*PEN Members ˚ Associate Members


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$10,000 - $14,999Austrian Consulate General; Barnes & Noble Booksellers; BNY Mellon; Barbara & Ray Dalio; The Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation; Disney-ABC Television Group; Roxanne Donovan & Tom Scarangello; Toni K.* & James Goodale; The Jerome L. Greene Foundation; HBO; Houghton Mifflin Company; Mr. & Mrs. Seward Johnson; The Leon Levy Foundation; Elizabeth & Christian Oberbeck˚; The Reed Foundation; Alice Sebold*; The Alvin and Fanny B. Thalheimer Foundation; Trust for Mutual Understanding; Eva & John Usdan; Jacqueline Weld* & Rodman Drake; Anonymous

$5,000 - $9,999Helen Bodian & Roger Alcaly; Maria B.* & Woodrow Campbell; City University of New York/ Chancellor Matthew Goldstein; Consulate General of Sweden; Vivian Donnelley; Susan Dryfoos*; The Edinburgh Book Festival; Leigh Feldman*/The Feldman Family Fund Inc.; Dorothea Frank; Edwin A. & Lorna Goodman; Grove/Atlantic, Inc.; Beth Gutcheon* & Robin Clements; The International Freedom to Publish Committee of the Association of American Publishers on behalf of the Jeri Laber Prize; Istituto Italiano di Cultura; Joan K. Davidson* (The J.M. Kaplan Fund); John & Tina Keker; Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte & Kristin Kusama; Eric Lax*; Yvonne & Michael Marsh; The new York Review of Books; Tess O’Dwyer*; Debra Perelman & Gideon Cil; Perseus Books LLC; Bruno* & Mary Ann Quinson; Roxana* & Hamilton Robinson; Daniel & Joanna Rose; Simon Schama*; Mimi Sternlicht; The Edna Wardlaw Charitable Trust; Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation; The Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation; Barrie & Deedee Wigmore; William Morris Endeavor Entertainment

$1,000 - $4,999Bruce W. Addison; Liaquat Ahamed*; The American Ireland Fund; Kwame Anthony Appiah*; Stuart Applebaum; The Atlantic Philanthropies Director/Employee Designated Gift Fund; Angelica* & Euan Baird; Russell Banks*; Hyatt Bass*; Louis Begley*; Stephen Benedek; Jill Braufman & Daniel Nir; Perdita & Edward L. Burlingame*; Candace Bushnell*; Michael V. Carlisle* & Dr. Sally Peterson; Gregory C. Carroll; Mr. & Mrs. Monty Cerf; Ron Chernow*; Joel Conarroe*; Culture Ireland; Don DeLillo*; The Dobkin Family Foundation; John K. Doyle˚ & Judy Crawford˚; Inger McCabe Elliott; The Charles Engelhard Foundation; Morgan Entrekin*; Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Evans; Mr. & Mrs. Henry Fownes; Anna Frajlich-Zajac/PEN Centre for Writers in Exile; Barbara P. Gimbel; Jim Glanzer˚; Lynn Goldberg*/Goldberg McDuffie Communications; Mr. & Mrs. Michael Golden; Marshall Goldin & Jo Ann Goldin; Peter & Aliette Goldmark; Angeline Goreau*; Michael Graff & Carol Ostrow; Christopher Grisanti & Suzanne Fawbush; Agnes Gund & Daniel Shapiro; Marlene Hess & James D. Zirin; Mr. & Mrs. Warren Hoge; Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hoppin˚; Susan Isaacs*; Gloria Joseph; Wendy Kaminer*; Betsy Karel; Edmund Keeley*; Mr. & Mrs. Harris L. Kempner, Jr.; Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Kempner, Jr.; Eleanora & Michael Kennedy; Mr. & Mrs. Breene M. Kerr; Susan C. Krysiewicz & Thomas Bell; Nathan Leventhal & Katherine Brown; Jeanne Levy-Church; harper’s Magazine/John



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R. MacArthur*; Jeff MacGregor*; Estate of William Marchant; Marie Claire Magazine; Wesley McCain˚ & Noreene Storrie˚; Mr. & Mrs. Henry McGee˚; Mr. & Mrs. Jason McManus; Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Menschel; Mr. & Mrs. William J. Michaelcheck˚; David Michaelis*; James Mintz & Deborah Stewart; Garrett & Mary Moran; Mr. & Mrs. Hans Morris; Barbara S. Mosbacher; Peter Nadin & Anne Kennedy; Lynn Nesbit; Mr. & Mrs. Mark Newhouse; Caroline Niemczyk; NYC & Company, Inc.; John G. H. Oakes* & Karin Cuoni; Kelly & Jerry Pasciucco; Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Peek; Holly Peterson; Susanna Porter & James Clark; Walter Pozen; Mr. & Mrs. James Price; Quebec Government Office; Elizabeth Rea˚; Theresa Rebeck*; Victoria Redel*; Frank Richardson & The Honorable Kimba Wood; Estate of Harvena Richter; Wanda Root; Mr. & Mrs. Michael Rudell; Gerald Ruttenberg & Perri Peltz; Jeannette Watson Sanger* & Alexander Sanger; Mr. & Mrs. Peter Scannell; Lawrence Schiller*; Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Schlosser; Ralph Schlosstein & Jane Hartley; M. David Sherrill; Gil Shiva; Clinton Ives Smullyan Jr.˚; Mr. & Mrs. David Solomon˚; Shelly & David Sonenberg; The Standard, New York; Paul Steiger & Wendy Brandes; Mr. & Mrs. Michael Steinberg; George Stephanopoulos; James Stevenson & Josephine Merck; Benjamin Taylor*; Mary Ann Tighe & Dr. David Hildalgo; Mr. & Mrs. Donald Tober; Mr. & Mrs. Enzo Viscusi; Mary Ellen von der Heyden; Betsy von Furstenberg; Washington College; Jacob Weisberg*; David Young

$500 - $999 John Brooks Adams*; Linda Alexander˚; Eleanor Alger; Nicole Aragi*; Donald F. Barney, Jr.; Lauren Belfer*; Pamela Bell; Kathryn & Charles Berry; Vicky Bijur*; Dr. & Mrs. Ralph S. Blume; Katherine Bonniwell & Bill Leibovitz; Alison Bourke; Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brawer˚; Mary Breasted & Ted Smyth; Mr. & Mrs. Ken Buckfire˚; Leigh Butler; William W. Cobbs & Annette DeLara Cobbs; Mariana Cook & Hans P. Kraus, Jr.; Gabriella De Ferrari*; Kate Hughes Del Tufo & Robert Del Tufo; Mr. & Mrs. Robert DeScenza; E. L. Doctorow*; Michele Oka Doner & Frederick Doner; Ariel Dorfman*; Dr. & Mrs. Harold B. Ehrlich; Mr. & Mrs. John Ellis; Bret Easton Ellis*; Dr. Amanda Foreman*; Lucy Frank*; L. Scott Frantz; Hugh D. Fremantle˚ & Susan F. Stevens˚; James Friedlich & Melissa Stern; Deborah Futter*; Carolina Garcia-Aguilera*; Peter Godwin*; Josephine & Jeffrey Goetz; Sara Goodman & Mott Hupfel; Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Greene; Perry Haberman˚; John A. Hargraves*; Deborah & Stephen Harnik; Liliane & Christian Haub; Joanna Hedge˚; James & Gail Isenberg; Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Kaufman; Cheri Kaufman; Steven Klugman & Mary Faucher; Page Knox; Sarah Laird; Mr. & Mrs. James Lally; Gary & Cissy Lefer; George Litton; Marcia Loughran; Mark & Nan Lvoff; Caitlin Macy*; Mr. & Mrs. Rick Malone; Donald Margulies*; Tanya Melich*; Mr. & Mrs. William J. Miller, Jr.; Honor Moore*; Alejandro Moreno; Amber Morgan & Thomas Tobin; Mr. & Mrs. Michael Najjar; Victor Navasky*; Nancy Newman*; Audrey Niffenegger*; Alison Oakes; Mr. & Mrs. Marne Obernauer, Jr.; Sidney Offit*; James S. Olson & Karen H. Shaw; Peter Osnos; Sara Paretsky*; Mark Pasmantier, M.D.; Jon Patricof; Ellen Peckham˚; Alexandra Lally Peters & Frederick Peters; Mr. & Mrs. Oscar S. Pollock; Kristin Powers*; Clifford & Elizabeth Press; Mr. & Mrs. Peter O. Price; Terry Pristin & Ron Silverman; Mr. & Mrs. Hector Prud’homme; Howard Read, III; Mr. & Mrs. David Redden; Betty Sargent*; Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Saul; Stacy Schiff*; Amy Schulman & David Nachman;



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Mr. & Mrs. Alex Seiler; Ivy Shapiro; Joel Simon; Mr. & Mrs. Jay Snyder; Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.; Margaret Stevens; Hume Steyer; Douglas Stumpf; Arthur O. Sulzberger; M.L. Swander; Mr. & Mrs. Frederick A. Terry, Jr.; Mr. & Mrs. William vanden Heuvel; Theodora & Howard Waltman; Teresa Waterman; Robert Weil*; Mr. & Mrs. Grant Winthrop; Robert Zimmerman; Anonymous

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