Tonight, actress Sarah Jessica Parker presented J.K. Rowling with the 2016 Pen/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award. The video may be watched below starting at 1 hour and 40 minutes, the embed should start at that point.

J.K. Rowling has used her talents and stature as a writer to fight inequality on both a local and global level. Herself the frequent object of censorship in schools and libraries across the globe, as well as online targeting, Rowling has emerged as a vocal proponent of free expression and access to literature and ideas for children, as well as incarcerated people, the learning-disabled, and women and girls worldwide.