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Hartford Library Hosts Banned Book Exhibit by Susan Dunne

In 1979, someone in Indiana tried to have Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" banned, saying the book "openly rejects traditional marriage and motherhood." In 1998, a Californian tried to ban J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," complaining it "opens a doorway that will put untold...

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM on September 20, 2016

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