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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, ...
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."
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 ...
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 ...
Book censorship in Canada; Book censorship in China; List of books banned in India; Book censorship in Iran; List of authors banned in Nazi Germany; List of books banned in New Zealand; List of books banned in Pakistan; Book censorship in the Republic of Ireland; Book censorship in the United States
Orange County, Florida, schools have banned 673 books, among them, two novels by Nashville author and Parnassus Books owner Ann Patchett.
Book censorship is the act of some authority taking measures to suppress ideas and information within a book. Censorship is "the regulation of free speech and other forms of entrenched authority". [ 1 ]
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