This novel, written by Samuel Clemens (1835–1910) under the pen name Mark Twain, chronicles the adventures of two young white boys and an escaped black slave who sail the Mississippi River on a raft. Huckleberry Finn banned immediately after publication (AP Photo/David Duprey, used with permission from The Associated Press)Ī 1907 article in the Library Journal reported that Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) had been banned somewhere every year since its publication.
Immediately after the book was published, it was banned in Concord, Massachusetts, and has been banned several times since then from libraries because of what some viewed as inappropriate content.
23, 2010, Mark Woodhouse, Mark Twain archivist, holds a first edition "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" book by Mark Twain at the Mark Twain Archive at Elmira College in Elmira, N.Y.
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