In 2010, a Missouri State University professor urged schools to ban the book, calling it “soft-pornography” and criticizing it for “(glorifying) drinking, cursing and premarital sex.”Īnderson’s Wintergirls (2009) also has been banned, criticized as glamorizing anorexia and self-harm. Speak tells the story of Melinda, who was raped at a party the summer before she starts high school. It’s a topic she’s addressed since her debut young adult novel, Speak, came out 20 years ago. “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance” and “the poison of democracy,” she said at the Washington, D.C., event, according to tweets by the American Libraries Association Magazine. Last weekend, Laurie Halse Anderson attended the American Library Association’s annual meeting, where she spoke at the Freedom to Read Foundation’s 50th anniversary celebration.
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