PEN Members

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, along with Sarah Gambito, are the recipients of the

PEN member

is the recipient of the inaugural Editors’ Award.

established the Writers for Writers Award in 1996 to recognize authors who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community. Beginning this year,

will also present an Editors’ Award, recognizing a book editor who has made an outstanding contribution to the publication of poetry or literary prose over a sustained period of time. The awards were presented at

’ annual gala benefit, In Celebration of Writers, on March 25, 2009 in New York City.

Russell Banks is the president and treasurer of Cities of Refuge North America, which provides assistance to persecuted writers around the world. He the author of sixteen works of fiction, including The Darling (HarperCollins, 2004) and Cloudsplitter (HarperCollins, 1998). Banks has won numerous awards for his work, including Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, and the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Robert Caro has served as the president of the Authors Guild of America and as the vice president of PEN. He recently won the Pulitzer Prize in biography for Master of the Senate (Knopf, 2002), the third volume in his biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson. He has also won the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, in addition to many other literary awards.

Daniel Halpern is currently the publisher and president of Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, which he founded in 1971. Since then, he has discovered and published hundreds of award-winning authors. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently Something Shining (Knopf, 1999), and the editor of numerous anthologies, including The Art of the Tale (Penguin, 1987) and The Art of the Story (Penguin, 2000). He has received numerous grants and awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the 1993 PEN Publisher Citation.