Literature

Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield in conversation with Tara Westover, author of Educated.

Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield introduced 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize winner Tayari Jones at the 2019 Aspen Words Sum

On April 11, the Institute awarded its second annual Aspen Words Literary Prize, which is dedicated to fiction that has social impact, to Tayari Jones, the author of An American Marriage.

Colson Whitehead spoke to an Aspen Words audience about his life as a writer, the difference between fiction and nonfiction, and how he came up with the fantastical premise for his most recent book, The Underground Railroad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

This spring’s Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series explored the news industry, the Supreme Court, and the self.

The 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize Winner discussed how she brings a human face to the social issues most pressing in our time.

The $35,000 prize honors a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue.

Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield delivered the following remarks at the announcement ceremony for the winner of the 2019 As

Pickle's Progress, from the former Aspen Words writer in residence, was released on April 9.