{"id":10775,"date":"2022-05-24T11:07:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=10775"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:01:18","slug":"author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2011\/author\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book Week 2011 &#8211; Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<div>\n                                            \n        \n    <div\n        id=\"books-by-year\"\n        x-data=\"accordion('books-by-year', false)\"\n        class=\"rounded-lg overflow-hidden mb-2 transition-all duration-300 ease-out bg-gray-50\"\n        x-bind:class=\"expanded ? 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Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents &amp; Sons<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mathabane, Mark &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/kaffir-boy\/\">Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth&#8217;s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa<\/a><\/li>\n<li>McKissaxck, Frederick, Jr. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/shooting-star\/\">Shooting Star<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Meyer, Stephenie- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/twilight\/\">Twilight<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Monette, Paul &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/writers-voice\/\">Writers&#8217; Voice: Selected from <strong>Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Moore, Patrick &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/tweaked\/\">Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Morrison, Toni &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/song-of-solomon\/\">Song of Solomon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Myracle, Lauren &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/ttyl\/\">TTYL<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Newman, Lindsey &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/notebook-girls\/\">The Notebook Girls: Four Friends, One Diary, Real Life<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ockler, Sarah &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/twenty-boy-summer\/\">Twenty Boy Summer<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Parnell, Peter &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/and-tango-makes-three\/\">And Tango Makes Three<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Plum-Ucci, Carol &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/body-of-christopher-creed\/\">The Body of Christopher Creed<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Pollitt-Cohen, Sophie &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/notebook-girls\/\">The Notebook Girls: Four Friends, One Diary, Real Life<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Richardson, Justin  &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/and-tango-makes-three\/\">And Tango Makes Three<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Saavedra, Dane &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/whats-happening-to-my-body\/\">What&#8217;s Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents &amp; Sons<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Salinger, J. D. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/the-catcher-in-the-rye\/\">Catcher in the Rye<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sapphire (Ramona Lofton) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/push\/\">Push<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Semencic, Carl &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/pit-bulls\/\">Pit Bulls and Tenacious Guard Dogs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Shaffer, Paul &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/well-be-here\/\">We&#8217;ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sixx, Nikki &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/heroin-diaries\/\">The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Smith, Jeff &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bone\/\">Bone<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sones, Sonya &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/one-of-those-hideous-books-where-the-mother-dies\/\">One of the Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sones, Sonya &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/what-my-mother-doesnt-know\/\">What My Mother Doesn&#8217;t Know<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sonnie, Amy, ed. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/revolutionary-voices\/\">Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Toombs, Courtney &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/notebook-girls\/\">The Notebook Girls: Four Friends, One Diary, Real Life<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Vonnegut, Kurt  &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/slaughterhouse-five\/\">Slaughterhouse-Five<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Walker, Margaret &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/jubilee\/\">Jubilee<\/a><\/li>\n<li>WritersCorps &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/paint-me-like-i-am\/\">Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>September 16, 2011<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":10263,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10775","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10775"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15237,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10775\/revisions\/15237"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}