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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.
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.
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 ]
[2] [3] Under its bylaws, the club is controlled by the working press. [4] Over the years, the club has been at five locations. It is currently located at 1522 Latimer Street, approximately three blocks east of Rittenhouse Square in Center City. The Pen & Pencil Club maintains a strict "off the record" policy on its premises. The club hosts a ...
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PEN Center USA was a branch of PEN, an international literary and human rights organization. It was one of two PEN International Centers in the United States, the other being the PEN America in New York City. On March 1, 2018, PEN Center USA unified under the PEN America umbrella as the PEN America Los Angeles office.