PEN America, an non-profit organisation that defends freedom of expression and human rights in the US and around the world, "has documented nearly 16,000 book bans in public schools nationwide ...

Winfrey received an honorary National Book Award in 1999. She will accept her PEN/Faulkner award during a virtual ceremony to be held May 2.

Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis ... Now Follow TPM The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the party once known as the ...

“We hope grandparents and grandchildren everywhere will see themselves in the pages of this book," the couple tell PEOPLE of the book, out in 2025 Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial ...

American author Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel Nineteen Minutes, a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of the ...

Book bans are sharply on the rise, according to a new study by PEN America. PEN America, a nonprofit organization that raises awareness for the protection of free expression through the ...

NEW YORK — Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel “Nineteen Minutes," a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of the ...

The Sunshine State led the nation in school book bans for the 2023-24 academic year, according to a new report released Friday. There were 4,561 instances of book banning in Florida public school ...

On Friday, PEN issued a report that expands upon numbers released in September for Banned Books Week, when libraries and stores around the country highlighted censored works. PEN compiled more ...

The most commonly banned author in America’s schools last year, according to a new PEN America report: Ellen Hopkins (523 instances of bans, affecting 19 of her books), followed by Sarah J.