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Publishers, authors fight against book censorship. Book banning has united some of the largest publishing houses in the U.S. In August, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, ...
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."
The Hate U Give: Angie Thomas: Profanity, violence, "thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda 2017 30 — — Heather Has Two Mommies: Lesléa Newman: Homosexuality 1989 87 — 9 His Dark Materials (series) Philip Pullman: Political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, violence 1995–2000 — 8 — The Holy ...
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.
Orange County, Florida, schools have banned 673 books, among them, two novels by Nashville author and Parnassus Books owner Ann Patchett.
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 ...
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