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This means materials like the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, ... Publishers, authors fight against book censorship. Book banning has united some of the largest publishing houses in the U.S.
Story at a glance More than 1,600 individual book titles have been banned from school classrooms or libraries over the past year, according to PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for freedom ...
Herbert Foerstel, the author of Banned in the U.S.A., a book documenting the cases of censorship in the United States, states that "the censors claim to be protecting the young and impressionable from this tragic tale of crude heroes speaking vulgar language within a setting that implies criticism of our social system."
Editor's note: This essay was first published on the author's blog: Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks. 2025 has just begun and for the first time in many years, free-speech advocates ...
Author's public statements, and because of claims that the book contains “selective storytelling incidents” and does not encompass racism against all people. [10] 2020 — — — Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes: Chris Crutcher: Obscene language, sexual content 1993 — 85 — A Stolen Life: A Memoir: Jaycee Dugard
Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell is a 2021 young adult non-fiction book edited by young adult author and literary critic Leonard S. Marcus. The book is a collection of interviews of popular children's and young adult writers about their experiences with book censorship.
The Irish Censorship of Publications Board was not obliged to reveal its reason but it is believed that it was rejected for its critique of Irish republicanism and the Catholic Church, and its depiction of adolescent sexuality. [17] The Country Girls: Edna O'Brien: 1960 Novel Banned by Ireland's censorship board in 1960 for its explicit sexual ...
Orange County, Florida, schools have banned 673 books, among them, two novels by Nashville author and Parnassus Books owner Ann Patchett.