Banned Plays: Censorship Histories of 125 Stage Dramas (Facts on File Library of World Literature) [Hardcover]

Dawn B. Sova (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Facts on File; New edition edition (April 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816040184
• ISBN-13: 978-0816040186
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #365,952 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

DAWN SOVA is a strong opponent of censorship in its many forms and has authored Banned Plays, Forbidden Films, Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, and Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds. Third editions of the latter two books are in progress. She has felt honored to speak on the topic to both library associations and private groups.

She was born in northern New Jersey in 1949 to first-generation Americans of Eastern European descent whose parents came through Ellis Island with great hopes and dreams for the future. Economic disadvantage limited her parents' access to education, but they empowered their daughter to strive and to earn several advanced academic degrees. She taught writing, journalism, and literature for over two decades at both the high school and university level.

More important, their influence propelled her to dream beyond the boundaries of their working class neighborhood. She is the author of 23 books. In 2002, she won the Mystery Writers of America Award for Best Non-fiction Work for her 20th book Edgar Allan Poe A-to-Z. She was nominated by the MWA in the same category several years earlier for her work on Agatha Christie.