NORMAN MAILER
 PEN American Center notes with great sorrow the passing of former PEN
president and longtime member Norman Mailer. Read the tributes by Patricia Bosworth, Alan Cheuse, Barbara Solomon, and Gay Talese.
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GRACE PALEY
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“Grace Paley was a revolutionary American writer, for me and many other
writers among the most important because she was writing about a world
I knew about but hadn’t seen in literature . . . ”
—PEN President Francine Prose
PEN Members including Francine Prose, Jessica Hagedorn, Rick Moody,
Joel Conarroe, and Meredith Tax, among many, pay tribute to the life
and legend of Grace Paley.
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| ARTHUR MILLER
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"Arthur Miller was a writer of genius. He made plays with the
grandeur and power of high tragedy, revealing what he called, in
the opening stage directions of Death of a Salesman, the 'dream
rising out of reality.' With the profound resonance of characters
such as Salesman's Willy Loman, The Crucible's Abigail Williams or
Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge, these works have strong
claims to immortality . . . "
—PEN President Salman Rushdie
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SUSAN SONTAG
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"Susan Sontag was a great literary artist, a fearless and original
thinker, ever valiant for truth, and an indefatigable ally in many
struggles. She set a standard of intellectual rigor to which I and her
many other admirers continue to aspire, insisting that with literary
talent came an obligation to speak out on the great issues of the day,
and above all to defend the sovereignty of the creative mind and
imagination against every kind of tyranny. . . . "
—PEN President Salman Rushdie
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JOHN STEINBECK
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The
following talks were presented as part of a PEN Twentieth Century
Masters Tribute to John Steinbeck, who served as on the Board of PEN
American Center from.... Read the tributes by Studs Terkel, Peter
Matthiessen, Michele Serros, George Plimpton, Arthur Miller, Dorothy
Allison, and William Kennedy.
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JAMES BALDWIN
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In
2001, PEN sponsored a Twentieth-Century Masters Tribute to long-time
PEN Member James Baldwin. Read the following tributes from Chinua
Achebe, David Leeming, Hilton Als, Nikki Giovanni, Russell Banks, Amiri
Baraka, Eleanor Traylor, and John Edgar Wideman.
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