Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

Kathleen McCook

May 22, 2021

Banned in Boston 1927; Nobel Prize to Lewis in 1930.

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Why was it banned?

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Kathleen McCook

May 25, 2021Author

At the time it was thought to be disrespectful of religion.

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