Join Barack Obama, Ron Chernow, and other luminaries for our celebration of words and human rights

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Join us for this unique, one-night-only event as we toast to human rights, celebrate the power of words, and recognize our deserving Honorees.

We look forward to celebrating with you on Tuesday.
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.

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


** HOST
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Franklin Leonard

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