"This memoir... covers a crucial time in the history of freedom of expression... filled with daring adventures, philosophical debates and meetings with some of the bravest writers and journalists who have risked so much to tell the truth." -Jennifer Clement, President, PEN International 2015-2021
"I kept reading Joanne Leedom-Ackerman's PEN Journey and said, These need to become a book. They tell the story of the important organization PEN from the ground and through the insightful eyes of someone who has worked and led the organization with passion, commitment and friendship with writers around the world. PEN Journeys addresses many important philosophical and political issues of the day with narrative flair so that I wanted to keep reading and then had to wait for the next installment." -Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of Imagination
"Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is the history of PEN incarnate. As president of a center, Chair of the Writers-in-Prison Committee, International Secretary, and a PEN International Vice President, she has been a steady and guiding force in the organization and its dedication to freedom of expression for more than one-third of PEN's first century. Her dedication to literature and human rights personify PEN International. These accounts do what all good writing does: She makes people and events vibrant." -Eric Lax, Vice President of PEN International and author of Faith, Interrupted: A Spiritual Journey
"Joanne Leedom-Ackerman has always been on the line for PEN International and the cause of writer safety and freedom of expression. Her knowledge and sense of PEN is unparalleled." -John Ralston Saul, President PEN International (2009-2015)
"This definitive chronicle of three crucial decades of PEN is a fascinating story told in lucid prose about the world's foremost organization defending freedom of expression.
Working tirelessly at all levels of PEN, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman has travelled the globe fighting for professionals of the word. Her unparalleled breadth of experience makes her the most qualified person to write this narrative, which is more important than ever as freedom of speech comes increasingly under attack." -Homero Aridjis, President Emeritus of PEN International
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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Her works of fiction include The Dark Path to the River and No Marble Angels, along with stories and essays in collections and anthologies, including Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement and Remembering Arthur Miller. She is senior editor for The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate. Former International Secretary of PEN International, she is a Vice President emeritus of PEN International and former Chair of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee. She is past President of PEN Center USA West and has served on the board and as Vice President of PEN American Center and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She also serves on the boards of the American Writers Museum, Words Without Borders, the International Center for Journalists, and Refugees International and is an emeritus board member of Poets and Writers and Human Rights Watch, where she served as chair of the Asia Advisory Committee and is a former board member of the International Crisis Group, and Save the Children. She is also an emeritus trustee of Brown University and Johns Hopkins University, where she served as chair of the Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins Press and is on the Advisory Board of The Hopkins Review. A former award-winning reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, Ms. Leedom-Ackerman has taught writing at New York University, City University of New York, Occidental College and in the Writers' Program at the University of California at Los Angeles extension. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Texas Institute of Letters and is a member of American and English PEN.
