The Envelope Please . . .

This year’s PEN Center USA West Literary Award winners:

Nonfiction--”President Kennedy: Profile of Power” by Richard Reeves (Simon & Schuster)

Fiction--”My Horse and Other Stories” by Stacey Levine (Sun & Moon Press)

Poetry--”Sesame” by Jack Marshall (Coffee House Press)

Drama--”Lonely Planet” by Steven Dietz

Screenplay--”Schindler’s List” by Steven Zaillian

Teleplay--”The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader--Murdering Mom” by Jane Anderson

Journalism--”The Mathematics of Discrimination” by Margy Rochlin (Los Angeles Times Magazine)

Translation--”Poems Performance Pieces Proses Plays Poetics” translated by Pierre Joris & Jerome Rothenberg (Temple University Press)

Children’s Literature--”Lives of the Musicians” by Kathleen Krull (Harcourt Brace & Co.)

Body of Work Award for Criticism--T.J. Clark