PEN America Virtual Gala - Join Barack Obama in conversation with Ron Chernow - Tuesday, December 8, 2020

PEN America today announced that President Barack Obama will accept the PEN America 2020 Voice of Influence Award at our virtual gala celebration on December 8. To mark this honor, President Obama will join Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ron Chernow for an exclusive writer-to-writer conversation about Obama’s new memoir A Promised Land and why the freedom to write matters now more than ever.

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PEN America’s Gala will be a crucial moment for our community to stand together in recognition of our deserving Honorees and to fortify our mission at a time of extraordinary demands. We hope you’ll join us for this unique, one-night-only event to toast to human rights and the power of words.

HONOREES

PEN America Voice of Influence Award: President Barack Obama
PEN/Audible Literary Service Award: Patti Smith
PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award: Xu Zhiyong
PEN/Benenson Courage Award: Darnella Frazier and Marie Yovanovitch

2020 PEN America Corporate Honoree: Frank A. Bennack Jr.

PRESENTERS

Madeleine Albright
Joan Baez
Bono
Ron Chernow
Steven J. Corwin
Spike Lee
Soledad O’Brien
Steven R. Swartz
Emma Thompson

HOST

Franklin Leonard

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