Countless Authors Are Forbidden In Texas Prisons
"Novels by National Book Award winners Pete Dexter, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx and William T. Vollmann have been banned in recent years. Award finalists Katherine Dunn and Barry Hannah are on the Texas no-read list, too, as are Pulitzer Prize winners Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren and John Updike." Austin American-Statesman 01/30/10

Posted February 3, 2010 07:30 AM