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Alexie, Pilkey books among most 'challenged' of past decade
Read full article: Alexie, Pilkey books among most 'challenged' of past decadeFILE - In this Oct. 10, 2016 file photo, author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie appears at a celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day at Seattle's City Hall. Alexie is included in a list of authors who wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. All wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. The association does not formally count the number of times books are actually removed from a library shelf or from a school reading list. “There are actually two lines of objections to the Anne Frank diary,” Caldwell-Stone says.
Lithuania erects sculpture in honor of JD Salinger
Read full article: Lithuania erects sculpture in honor of JD SalingerPeople look and photograph the new statue of American writer Jerome David Salinger in Paminklas, Lithuania, Friday, June 19, 2020. Salinger, the American writer best known for his 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye," has been honored with a statue in a rye field, near the Lithuanian village where his ancestors lived. Salinger, the American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, was honored Friday with a sculpture featuring a rye field near the Lithuanian village where his ancestors lived. The sculpture is of a human silhouette cut out in a steel plate that is bent before a void. Salinger above a rye field printed on the side of the block that is sticking out from a hill surrounded by a forest.