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It’s official – and very depressing: Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, according to a new report on book bans.
PEN America’s "The Normalization of Book Banning - Banned in the USA 2024-2025”, published today, tracks 6,870 instances of books being temporarily or permanently pulled for the 2024-2025 school year across 23 states and 87 public school districts.
The report, which examines the climate of censorship between 1 July 2024 through 30 June 2025, states that in 2025, book censorship in the US is “rampant and common” and that “never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country”.
The report adds: “Never before have so many states passed laws or regulations to facilitate the ba
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