USA: Writers; XXXIV International P.E.N. Congress

National Educational Television and Radio Center · July 24, 1966

This episode is videotape coverage of the opening session of PEN, a joint world association of poets, playwrights, essayists, editors, and novelists. This thirty-fourth international congress met from June 12 through June 18, 1966 at the new Loeb Student Center at New York University. Principal speakers at the Inaugural Session were Arthur Miller and Saul Bellow. USA Writers - XXXIV International PEN Congress is a production of National Educational Television. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) USA: Writers is part of an assessment of the state of the literary arts in the United States, which concentrates on contemporary prose writers across many genres. The half-hour episodes that comprise the series were originally recorded on videotape.