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    PEN International Marks a Century

    Oct 13, 2021 3 minutes
    –GILA LYONS

    International, the global organizat ion that defends and champions free expression for writers worldwide, turns one hundred. British poet, playwright, and peace activist Catharine Amy Dawson Scott founded PEN in London in 1921 to unite writers after the devastation of World War I. PEN vice president emerita Joanne Leedom-Ackerman (a former member of the board of Poets & Writers, the nonprofit organization that publishes this magazine) explains that “Dawson Scott felt that if writers could know and read each other, they could

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