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An Ohio-born author had one of her books on the American Library Association's Top Challenged Books list for 2024.
So You Haven't Read the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Beloved by author Toni Morrison? Well, then pull up a seat and get ready ...
Bridgett Davis… Bridgett M. Davis on the Creative Lessons Learned From an Icon of American Literature In a talk she gave in the 1980s entitled “The Site of Memory”, Toni Morrison said her goals as a ...
At the age of 76, with the 2021 Literature Nobel under his belt (he's the first writer of African origin to win the prize ...
This is Nuruddin Farah’s most powerful novel. As with all of his fiction, it is set in his homeland of Somalia. Maps is an absorbing account of an orphaned boy growing up among women during the Ogaden ...
Carrie D. Krause, owner of Get Carried Away Editing, gave up a successful CPA career to spend more time with her children and ...
Organized pressure groups, not individual parents, are leading the fight to remove books from shelves, according to a new ...
The American Library Association (ALA) released its annual list of most-challenged books on Monday, which includes new data that reveals the majority of censorship attempts in school and public ...
Toni Morrison’s bestselling novel “Beloved ... At the center of “The Street” is Lutie Johnson, a young Black single mother trying to raise her son in 1940s Harlem against the backdrop ...