{"id":47062,"date":"2025-09-30T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/47062\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:40:07","slug":"the-eleanor-roosevelt-banned-book-awards-will-be-presented-jointly-with-pen-america-and-held-at-the-bardavon-on-10-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/47062\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards will be presented jointly with Pen America and held at the Bardavon on 10\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With book bans in public schools rising to levels unseen since the McCarthy era Red Scare of the 1950s, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ervk.org\/banned-books\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards<\/a>\u00a0ceremony at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bardavon.org\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bardavon<\/a> in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.\u00a0will be presented jointly\u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PEN America<\/a> on Saturday, October 11th. Author\u00a0Jennifer Finney Boylan,\u00a0PEN America\u2019s president, will be the keynote speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The Eleanor Roosevelt Awards honor individuals who embrace her call to build a better world through humanitarian efforts in education, advocacy, social justice, and civil and human rights. The ceremony will celebrate authors who have championed intellectual freedom and the fight against censorship during Banned Books Week 2025, an annual event that highlights the freedom to read and the censorship of books in libraries and schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ten honorees include best-selling author\u00a0Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid\u2019s Tale), who will receive the Eleanor Roosevelt Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on October 11th. To tell us more, we welcome:<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Shapley\u00a0&#8211; Managing Director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center <br \/>Becky Calzada, Librarian and this year&#8217;s\u00a0Literary Freedom Award\u00a0honoree<br \/>Malinda Lo,\u00a0honoree for\u00a0Last Night at the Telegraph Club<br \/>Kasey Meehan, PEN America&#8217;s Freedom to Read Program Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With book bans in public schools rising to levels unseen since the McCarthy era Red Scare of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[412,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-47062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}