Here’s a Jeopardy question for you:

What do The Client, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, and A Time to Kill have in common?

Sure, they’re among John Grisham’s bestselling works, but each has also been removed from a library because someone objected to its content.

As one might expect, due to the subject matter it found itself on the shelves of the American Library Association’s Banned Books in the American South, particularly in the state of Texas, despite the fact that the setting of it and other novels is Mississippi.

Immediately after the release of the movie adaptation it was repeatedly challenged or banned in Texas public schools over an 18-month period for themes of racism and sexually-graphic material.

According to the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, Grisham’s works have been repeatedly challenged for depictions of violence, rape and the use of- *GASP*- “curse words.”

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http://bbark.deepforestproductions.com/column/2011/06/05/banned-books-awareness-time-kill/