Famous Authors
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Famous Quotes
Banned Books
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Battleground
Who is Stephen King?
100
Born May 31, 1819
Who is Walter "Walt" Whitman?
100
"Original Declamation with Valedictory Address"
Who is Robert Frost?
100
"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone."
Who is Thomas Hardy?
100
This book was banned in south Milwaukee.
What is "The Outsiders."
200
Aristotle The Athenian Constitution
Who is Aristotle?
200
Born in England, 1890
Who was Agatha Christie?
200
His collection A Wave (1984) won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Who is John Ashbery?
200
"For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."
Who is Sylvia Plath?
200
St. Joseph's School in Wakefield, Mass. banned this series of books?
What is Harry Potter?
300
Born in Istanbul
Who is Orhan Pamuk?
300
England, January 25, 1882
Who was Virginia Woolf?
300
She attended Mount Holyoke
Who was Emily Dickinson?
300
"Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know."
Who is Joseph Roux?
300
Banned because it was seen as sexual, obscene, and pornographic.
What is "The Scarlett Letter?
400
The British author George Orwell.
Who was Eric Blair?
400
Born in India on December 30, 1865
Who was Rudyard Kipling?
400
Received his doctorate from Harvard in philosophy
Who was T.S. Eliot?
400
"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
400
This book was banned at Northwest High School in High Point, N.C. and also at Round Rock Texas.
What is "The Color Purple"?
500
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Who was Mark Twain?
500
Born in England on January 27, 1832
Who is Lewis Carroll?
500
His mother was an accomplished pianist and a devout evangelical Christian.
Who was Robert Browning?
500
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment."
Who is Carl Sandburg?
500
This book was viewed as being racist, portraying blacks in a demeaning manner, and/or in a negative way.
What is "Tom Sawyer"?
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