Today in The Writer's Corner: Claudia Johnson on Book Banning

Join us live today at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST. Link to session below!

TODAY in The Writer's Corner, we will be joined by Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Claudia Johnson for a live discussion on Book Banning. Claudia is a nationally recognized advocate for free speech and social justice. In 1993, she was honored with the inaugural PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award, presented by Paul Newman, for her “extraordinary efforts to restore banned literary classics to Florida classrooms”—and again in the 2022 “PEN America at 100: A Century of Defending the Written Word” exhibition at the New York Historical Society. She continues to fight book banning, helping to reinstate banned books. Her memoir Stifled Laughter: One Woman’s Story About Fighting Censorship was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize when first published by Fulcrum Publishing in 1994.

To join the session, simply click on that green box above today at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST. Can’t wait to see you there!