Authors' group founded 1921, offering support for writers persecuted or oppressed by their government. Active affiliate groups in more than 100 nations. The acronym PEN stands for Poets, Essayists and Novelists.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Saul Bellow |
Novelist |
10-Jun-1915 |
5-Apr-2005 |
The Adventures of Augie March |
| Heinrich Böll |
Novelist |
21-Dec-1917 |
16-Jul-1985 |
The Train Was On Time |
| Joseph Brodsky |
Poet |
24-May-1940 |
28-Jan-1996 |
"Social parasite" turned Poet Laureate |
| Albert Camus |
Novelist |
7-Nov-1913 |
4-Jan-1960 |
French author and Nobel laureate |
| Karel Capek |
Author |
9-Jan-1890 |
25-Dec-1938 |
R.U.R. |
| John Maxwell Coetzee |
Novelist |
9-Feb-1940 |
|
Reclusive South African novelist, essayist |
| Joseph Conrad |
Author |
3-Dec-1857 |
3-Aug-1924 |
Heart of Darkness |
| Benedetto Croce |
Philosopher |
25-Feb-1866 |
20-Nov-1952 |
Philosophy of Spirit |
| E. L. Doctorow |
Novelist |
6-Jan-1931 |
21-Jul-2015 |
The Book of Daniel |
| Harlan Ellison |
Author |
27-May-1934 |
|
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream |
| Anatole France |
Novelist |
16-Apr-1844 |
13-Oct-1924 |
French novelist |
| John Galsworthy |
Novelist |
14-Aug-1867 |
31-Jan-1933 |
The Forsyte Saga |
| Nadine Gordimer |
Novelist |
20-Nov-1923 |
13-Jul-2014 |
South African novelist |
| Günter Grass |
Author |
16-Oct-1927 |
13-Apr-2015 |
German novelist, The Tin Drum |
| Elizabeth Hardwick |
Critic |
27-Jul-1916 |
2-Dec-2007 |
Seduction and Betrayal |
| John Irving |
Novelist |
2-Mar-1942 |
|
The World According to Garp |
| Yasar Kemal |
Novelist |
6-Oct-1923 |
28-Feb-2015 |
Mehmet, My Hawk |
| Norman Mailer |
Author |
31-Jan-1923 |
10-Nov-2007 |
Armies of the Night |
| Thomas Mann |
Novelist |
6-Jun-1875 |
12-Aug-1955 |
Buddenbrooks |
| Arthur Miller |
Playwright |
17-Oct-1915 |
10-Feb-2005 |
Death of a Salesman |
| Czeslaw Milosz |
Poet |
30-Jun-1911 |
14-Aug-2004 |
Polish novelist and poet, The Captive Mind |
| Alberto Moravia |
Novelist |
28-Nov-1907 |
26-Sep-1990 |
Il Conformista |
| Toni Morrison |
Author |
18-Feb-1931 |
|
Beloved |
| Amos Oz |
Novelist |
4-May-1939 |
|
Elsewhere, Perhaps |
| Grace Paley |
Author |
11-Dec-1922 |
22-Aug-2007 |
The Little Disturbances of Man |
| Orhan Pamuk |
Novelist |
7-Jun-1952 |
|
Leading Turkish novelist |
| Harold Pinter |
Playwright |
10-Oct-1930 |
24-Dec-2008 |
The Birthday Party |
| Edward Said |
Educator |
1-Nov-1935 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Orientalism |
| John Ralston Saul |
Essayist |
19-Jun-1947 |
|
The Collapse of Globalism |
| George Bernard Shaw |
Playwright |
26-Jul-1856 |
2-Nov-1950 |
Irish dramatist and pamphleteer |
| Susan Sontag |
Author |
16-Jan-1933 |
28-Dec-2004 |
Novelist, critic, intellectual |
| Wole Soyinka |
Playwright |
13-Jul-1934 |
|
Politically-charged Nigerian author |
| Joseph Stein |
Playwright |
30-May-1912 |
24-Oct-2010 |
Fiddler on the Roof librettist |
| William Styron |
Novelist |
11-Jun-1925 |
31-Oct-2006 |
The Confessions of Nat Turner |
| John Updike |
Novelist |
18-Mar-1932 |
27-Jan-2009 |
Rabbit, Run |
| Paul Valéry |
Poet |
30-Oct-1871 |
20-Jul-1945 |
La Jeune Parque |
| Mario Vargas Llosa |
Novelist |
28-Mar-1936 |
|
Acclaimed Peruvian author |
| Kurt Vonnegut |
Novelist |
11-Nov-1922 |
11-Apr-2007 |
Slaughterhouse Five |
| H. G. Wells |
Author |
21-Sep-1866 |
13-Aug-1946 |
The War of the Worlds |
| Liu Xiaobo |
Activist |
28-Dec-1955 |
|
Chinese human rights activist |
