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The first PEN Club was founded at the Florence Restaurant in London on October 5, 1921, [3] by Catherine Amy Dawson Scott, with John Galsworthy as its first president. Its first members included Joseph Conrad, Elizabeth Craig, George Bernard Shaw, and H. G. Wells.
Pen and Brush Club, 10th Street in Manhattan by Jessie Tarbox Beals c. 1923. Pen and Brush Club (also known as Pen + Brush) is an international organization of professional women, writers and artists. [1] Organized in 1897, the women formed themselves into a club of which the object was to be recreation and the promotion of social dialogue.
Catherine Amy Dawson Scott (August 1865 – 4 November 1934) was an English writer, playwright and poet.She is best known as a co-founder (in 1921) of English PEN, one of the world's first non-governmental organisations and among the first international bodies advocating for human rights, and the founding centre of PEN International, a worldwide association of writers.
The club's 14-story building, which is a designated landmark, is located at 30 West 44th Street and initially was occupied by The Yale Club of New York City. [6] [7] For 2023-2024, the Penn Club was named to the list of the Top 50 City Clubs and was rank the second-best city club in New York City by Platinum Clubs of America. [8]
Wodehouse references this organization in his 1971 novel The Girl in Blue, in which amateur poet Homer Pyle attends a PEN conference in Brussels. The first PEN Club was founded in London in 1921; the Pen and Ink Club debuted before this in Uneasy Money but is developed further in later appearances.
PEN America (formerly PEN American Center), founded in 1922, [3] and headquartered in New York City, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization [4] whose goal is to raise awareness for the protection of free expression in the United States and worldwide through the advancement of literature and human rights.
Founded in 1921, English PEN is one of the world's first non-governmental organisations and among the first international bodies advocating for human rights. [2] English PEN was the founding centre of PEN International , a worldwide writers' association with 145 centres in more than 100 countries. [ 3 ]
PEN Centre Germany supports two main programmes: Writers in Prison [2] and Writers in Exile. [3] Founded in 1999, Writers in Exile is a programme supporting international writers who are given the opportunity to live and work in safety, with accommodation provided in Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg and Munich together with living expenses.