New Line co-chairman/co-CEO Bob Shaye will receive the Award of Honor from Pen USA in recognition of his work at New Line Cinema as well as his involvement in the funding and distribution of ...

Novelist Elmore Leonard will receive PEN USA's lifetime achievement award at a December ceremony. Leonard, 83, has written over 40 westerns, crime novels and mysteries, including "The Bounty Hunters," ...

PEN America and PEN Center USA, the East Coast and West Coast American branches of PEN International, will merge under the banner of PEN America, the nonprofits jointly announced on January 8. The ...

EXCLUSIVE: Incomparable writer, producer, First Amendment apostle and funny guy Norman Lear will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN Center USA, which works on global issues of ...

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