PEN

The organisation was set up in 1935, at the end of the First International Congress of Writers held in the Salle de la Mutualité in Paris. It proposed to be a more partisan and...

EB resigned from PEN , because after reflection, she no longer [felt] in sympathy with their aims—presumably an allusion to PEN's strong anti-Fascist position.

JT did not self-identify as a feminist, though she was aware of having benefited from education in institutions which valued women as highly as men. She gave money to Scottish PEN , but her involvement...

CADS was first a poet; then after a long break in her publishing career she produced almost twenty novels, including works that make her a significant regional novelist of the Cornish coast. She also wrote...

JG was a novelist and dramatist who began publishing just before the end of the nineteenth century. The series of novels for which he is now best known, The Forsyte Saga, is historical, since...

According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, reviewers liked this book, praising its vivid and forceful use of language. PB , however, later remembered that it brought the killer bees out in force, led...

In late 2013 GS received the coveted Golden PEN award, announced at the same meeting at which she stepped down as president of PEN , one month prematurely, on a matter of principle which conveyed...

CAD was awarded an OBE in 1995. In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was created a CBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end of...

SJ received the English Centre of International PEN award for her last novel, There Will Be a Short Interval, published the previous year. Her long involvement with this association had included serving as its...

Her first letter to Dear Mrs. Woolf, written on 26 March 1923, was an invitation to join the PEN club . Sackville-West did not yet know Woolf at all well, since she supposed Woolf...

SJ published a one-act play, Full Circle, with Basil Blackwell in 1929. In 1950 she published her teleplay William the Defeated in The Book of PEN, edited by Hermon Ould . She issued...

Several chapters had begun as addresses given to meetings of the PEN Club while SJ was its president.