Sibel Edmonds

Sibel Edmonds

female, 40 years old
PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award, free speech, George Mason University alumni, Whistleblowers, PEN/Newman's Own, Turkish-American
Sibel Deniz Edmonds is a Turkish-American former FBI translator and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC). Edmonds was...
Francine Prose

Francine Prose

female, 62 years old
Radcliffe College alumni, PEN/Newman's Own, National Book Award, From Brooklyn, American, Short story writer
Francine Prose (born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American novelist. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968, and received a...
Judith Krug

Judith Krug

female
University of Pittsburgh alumni, University of Chicago alumni, from Chicago, speaker, University of Pittsburgh, PEN/Newman's Own
Judith Fingeret Krug is a United States librarian. She has been the Director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom...
Philip Gourevitch

Philip Gourevitch

male, 48 years old
Victor Gourevitch, Magazine editor, Jean Jacques Rousseau, PEN/Newman's Own, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review
Philip Gourevitch is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work has appeared since 1995. His first book, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow...
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah

male, 55 years old
Herskovitz Prize, African-American studies scholar, Clare College, Cambridge, Kumasi, Bryanston School, Ph.D.…PEN/Newman's Own, PEN American Center
Kwame Anthony Appiah was born in London (where his Ghanaian father was a law student) but moved as an infant to Ghana, where he grew up. He was...
Lewis H. Lapham

Lewis H. Lapham

male, 74 years old
Lewis Lapham, Yale University, University of Cambridge, texaco, Harper's Magazine, New York Herald Tribune…PEN/Newman's Own, PEN American Center
Lewis Lapham (pronounced) (born January 8, 1935) was the editor of the American monthly "Harper's Magazine" until 2006. Most recently, Lapham has...