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JAMES BALDWIN
 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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SUSAN SONTAG
 "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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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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 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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PEN Tributes Audio Archive
A Tribute to César Vallejo
A Tribute to Grace Paley
A Tribute to Ryszard Kapuscinski
Czeslaw Milosz and the Conscience of Literature
The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture with Orhan Pamuk
The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture with David Grossman
Don Quixote at 400: A Tribute
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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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ARTHUR MILLER
 "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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