Literary Censorship in America: Challenged vs. Banned Books

Tuesday, September 17, 2013







Did you know...

Mr. Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (pub. 1885) was once dismissed as "trash, suitable only for the slums." It is ranked as the fourth most banned book in the United States, even though the book is recognized as a "Great American Classic" and sells 200K copies each year.


Or that... 

"The Diary of a Young Girl" (pub. 1947), a historically-important book of