Letter to the Guests of Honor and the PEN Delegates
Mailer's 222-word letter of welcome printed in the program of the 48th International PEN Congress (New York, 11–16 January 1986), given in both English and French, opening the conference he organized as president of American PEN.
Mailer’s 222-word letter of welcome, printed in the program of the 48th International PEN Congress (New York, 11–16 January 1986) in both English and French, as was the full program (32 pp.). It opened the conference he had organized as president of American PEN and named its theme — “The Writer’s Imagination and the Imagination of the State” — which he developed in his opening address the next day (86.20).