PEN America 2024

Free speech. It means something different to us. Over the past 100 years, PEN America has advocated for free expression, defended writers and artists at risk around the globe, and fought censorship in the United States and abroad. Our cause has been made all the more urgent by the current wave of book bans and censorship in schools.
This video was featured at the PEN America Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on May 16, 2024.