See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred As a new report from PEN America aggregates two years of data on book bans to show how they stigmatize specific authors, Lauren Groff ...

During the 2022-23 school year, PEN America recorded 3,362 book bans nationally, a 33-percent jump over the previous school year. Florida led the country in book bans, a PEN America report released ...

Florida is No. 1 for book removals in public schools for the third year in a row, according to a new report released Wednesday by the national free expression group PEN America. PEN America, which has ...

Tennessee has the third highest number of book bans in school libraries across the nation, according to a yearly report by First Amendment literary advocacy group PEN America. The report documents ...