PEN International

PEN stood for Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Editors, Novelists. Forty-five writers and journalists attended the dinner: they all became PEN's first members. John Galsworthy served as president until 1933.

PEN was inspired by the new post-war spirit of internationalism. CADS explained her vision for PEN: the idea is more to draw the nations together—a United States of Europe and America in literature. ....

After the founding, CADS remained essential to the organization and smooth functioning of PEN . As writers from war-torn Europe poured into London, they often sought her out first to gain an entrée into literary society.

Tributes to the founder of PEN poured in from writers and friends such as Louis Golding , Rebecca West , and Karel Capek .

Both kept up their political activity during the 1930s with active membership of such organizations as the National Council for Civil Liberties (whose first executive committee Sharp sat on) and of PEN International . Even...

MS attended the founding meeting in Soho of the P.E.N. Club , which became the well-known and influential writers' organization PEN International.

MS travelled to the USA as a delegate to the first-ever annual meeting of PEN International.

AS largely avoids intervening with her authorial presence in her writing, and argues that there is no clear point of intersection between her work and her allegiances or identities, national, sexual, and so on.

MS received many honours, including being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1963, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1978, an Officier de l'Ordre des...

NS was elected a member of P.E.N. Club (later PEN International ), which had been founded a decade earlier to help and support writers.

Before the First World War EHY was a keen climber or mountaineer. During the war she worked in a munitions factory after some time as a groom. She joined the Society of Authors during the...