NEW YORK – The book world’s most creative minds gathered under a giant whale. It sounds like the start of a joke, but the evening’s tone was anything but. At a PEN America’s star-studded ...

By Tyler Jenke The journals of late Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley will be collected in an upcoming book, with This Angry Pen to be released in November. The 176-page volume will be ...

Murphy. In her latest book, titled “Prayer and Pen: The Prayers and Legacy of Carl Murphy, Publisher of The AFRO-American Newspapers,” Dr. Draper honors her grandfather, his rich heritage and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

"What students can read in schools provides the foundation for their lives," says PEN America Eric Charbonneau/Getty; Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty; VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Book bans are sharply on ...

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 ...

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.

Public schools and libraries across the U.S. are still facing a rise of book challenges due to recent state and local policies that have accelerated efforts to censor certain materials, according ...

This article was originally published by The 19th. The number of books banned in public schools over the past year skyrocketed to more than 10,000, with two states — Iowa and Florida ...

based nonprofit organization, has partnered with the American Library Association and PEN America to produce an interactive map in response to the nationwide surge in efforts to ban books from ...