Book News: PEN American/Porter Foundation Create First Amendment Prize
by Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 12/3/2007 7:43:00 AM
The PEN American Center and the Katherine Anne Porter Foundation have established a $10,000 prize “for ordinary people who take extraordinary stands to defend the First Amendment in the United States.” The award, honoring a U.S. citizen or resident who has fought courageously to safeguard the First Amendment’s right to freedom of expression as it applies to the written word, will be conferred annually before an audience of America’s most distinguished writers at the PEN Gala in New York. The Katherine Anne Porter Foundation is sponsoring the prize, a fitting tribute, PEN said, to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s steadfast support for the freedom to write.
