Abby Goodnough, New York Times; Century After It Was Banned, Place of Honor for Twain Tale:
"Richard Whitehead was researching his new role as a trustee of the public library here when he stumbled on an old, forgotten controversy about the book, Mark Twain’s sly interpretation of the Adam and Eve story.
In 1906, he learned, the library’s trustees voted to ban “Eve’s Diary” because the illustrations, by Lester Ralph, showed a naked (though not graphically so) Eve exploring the wonders of Eden."
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Century After It Was Banned, Place of Honor for Twain Tale; New York Times, 9/22/11
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