When, where, and why were these books banned?

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Many famous writer's books have been banned for one reason or another by schools, libraries, states, and even the federal government. Any of you know when, where, and why they were banned? c.i.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth

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Ah, The Catcher in the Rye - that's been banned or was banned in a lot of places, including an attempt at my High School while I was attending (Harborfields H. S., '76 - '79).

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The Federal Government has no power to ban books. So that part of your quesrtion is inaccurate.

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Larry, It is my understanding that the US Postal Service did ban certain books. I have no proof of this, but that's what I heard. c.i.

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The postal department has the authority to seize pornography. I remember a yellow paperback edition of "Lady Chatterley's lover that had be Mailed From Paris (in a plain brown envelope) that was passed around my large and literate family.

Pornography is in the mind of the beholder--but that is another kettle of fish.

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"My Friend Flicka", "Webster's Collegiate?......Oh........my..........God!
...These were the most egregious, but there were many shockers on that list.

...Oh yeah, I notice you didn't mention French Comics. We had the darndest time getting those , when I was in school. Evil or Very Mad

Kidding...KIDDING! Twisted Evil

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C.I., you are quite right. I had forgotten about the Postal Service bans...they affected many books including ULYSSES, TROPIC OF CANCER, and LADY CHATTERLEY. Amazing to think that ULYSSES once had to be smuggled in from Paris as contraband by literary-minded travelers!

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I think that you will find this interesting:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html

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Phoenix, You're a gem. That's exactly the sort of information I was seeking. I owe you one! Wink

c.i.

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I thank you to Phoenix,
...You've enabled me to have a most intriguing experience. I followed your link, and wound up viewing "Little Black Sambo"
...Now, me being African-American, those three words have an ugly connotation for me. As I was going to the story, my blood was starting to boil, I was quite tense. I had never actually read the story before.
...Surprise, surprise! there was nothing racist, or demeaning about the story. It is your basic African folk tale. And that is a great example of the folly of censorship. The only way I could accept censorship, is if I'm a censor and get to read and view, all the good stuff. Twisted Evil

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The Federal Court may not be able to ban books, but the Masschusetts Court has banned hundreds. I'm really not sure if any publication has been safe from our puritanical system of law. I'd also like to add Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' to the list.

Here's another resource. The whole site's great. http://www.alibris.com/articles_features/features/banned/banned.cfm

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Booman--
Booman--

Melted butter...or "ghee" as it is called in India.

Little Black Sambo is really an India Indian. I don't think tigers are native to Africa either four legged or transformed into melted butter.

Incidently, I've read the story to many white children--and they all covet Little Black Sambo's wardrobe--particularly the purple shoes with crimson soles and crimson linings.

The bigots who turned "Sambo" into an insult were practicing illiterates.

Hold your dominion.

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cicerone imposter wrote:

Larry, It is my understanding that the US Postal Service did ban certain books. I have no proof of this, but that's what I heard. c.i.

The Postal Service has no authority to "ban" books of any type as was clearly laid out in Hannegan v. Esquire, (USSC 1946) and has never banned any.

The Postal Service DOES have the authorty to refuse to distribute books which are determined to be "obscene" or refuse to allow mailing at the subsidized 2nd class rate if the publication in question doesn't meet the guidelines established by the Congress for use of the lower mailing rate. Neither of those situations is a "ban" though.

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Sugar, Another good link with good info. Thx, c.i.

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Noddy24,
...You're absolutly right of course. I even noticed that while reading the story, but it still, so reminded me of African folk tales, I had sub-consiously ignored those two facts, by the time I started typing.
...Er...could I clean it up by saying that perhaps tale came from the black Indians, of India, who were probably the most recent emigrants, from Africa and........well you see where I'm going with this stretch right? Rolling Eyes

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fishin, A form of censorship none-the-less. c.i.

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Booman- But you are absolutely right. The spinmeisters took a perfectly lovely kid's story, and turned it into a racial issue. I think that this will give us all a good lesson, to look beneath the surface, and not just come up with knee jerk reactions.

I am glad that you enjoyed the site. When I spotted it, I thought that it was pretty "neat"!

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Have you counted the movies made from the banned list?

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cicerone imposter wrote:

fishin, A form of censorship none-the-less. c.i.

No more so than Barnes and Nobles not allowing you to walk out of their store with a book you didn't pay for.

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fishin, huh? ;* c.i.

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