Before making it big as a children’s author, Theodor (“Dr. Seuss”) Geisel wrote The Seven Lady Godivas: The True Facts Concerning History’s Barest Family, complete with his own illustrations of nude women. It was a flop.

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11 Banned Books Through Time

There are plenty of reasons why a book might be banned. It may subvert a popular belief of a dominating culture, shock an audience with grotesque, sexual, or obscene language, or be thought to promote strife within a society. Whatever the reason, once a book is banned, a sort of aura of mystique is