Campaigners defend 'celebrated novels' from US censors
Authors including Toni Morrison and Kurt Vonnegut are among those to have faced recent bans in American schools
American libraries and bookshops are celebrating the freedom to read this week but attempts to force books off shelves are still rife across the country, from the removal of Sherman Alexie's award-winning young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian from shelves in Missouri to protests over Kurt Vonnegut's seminal title Slaughterhouse-Five.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 27 September, 2010
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