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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Salman Rushdie (AAP file)\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.3news.co.nz\/3news\/AM\/2012\/10\/2\/271233\/Salman-Rushdie_AAP_1200.jpg?width=700\" height=\"212\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E(Photo: AAP File)\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=2501884760724421053\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIs everyone up on the literary scandal du jour? The one where Salman Rushdie rated a couple dozen modern classics on Goodreads, and his clamorously low ratings for many of them (\u003Ci\u003ETo Kill a Mockingbird, \u003C\/i\u003Ethree stars out of five?! \u003Ci\u003ELucky Jim \u003C\/i\u003Eonly one?!) were shared with the 30 million members of the site, as is the wont of a \"social networking website\", resulting in a few shocked people and much media kerfuffle? Sir Salman claims he didn't dream they would be on public view and he was just playing around, which sounded a lot like saying he didn't inhale, but he did stick up for his right not to like Kingsley Amis books, which has to count for something.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZero stars from me for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/sir-salman-rushdie-claims-i-was-just-fooling-around-as-his-ratings-of-other-authors-work-go-viral-10156390.html\"\u003EThe Independent,\u003C\/a\u003E which described Sir Salman as having \"sparked controversy with some trenchant opinions of some authors widely regarded as among the finest of their generation\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStar-rating a book is not a \"trenchant opinion\"! Trenchant opinions are, well, trenchant: from the French, meaning cutting, sharp. They involve skill, and are not done with an abacus, nor with a blunt instrument such as Bret Easton Ellis used on David Foster Wallace a few years ago when he\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2012\/sep\/06\/bret-easton-ellis-david-foster-wallace\"\u003Edeclared\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\"I continue to find [him] the most tedious, overrated, tortured, pretentious writer of my generation\", an earlier scandal du jour.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe best trenchant opinions make use of trenchant wit, as with Oscar Wilde's arch comment about the 18th century master of the heroic couplet: “There are several ways to dislike poetry; one is to dislike it, the other is to read Alexander Pope.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1355161\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"syndetics-lc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9781854795427\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2540386\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6e\/Portrait_of_Alexander_Pope.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"159\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere are some of my favourite author to author insults, witty, mostly trenchant, always wicked.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2012\/06\/06\/parker_sq-555c1acad683eb8cac4fe9fbc8008fcc744634a6.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2012\/06\/06\/parker_sq-555c1acad683eb8cac4fe9fbc8008fcc744634a6.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/carolwallace.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/06\/6a00ccff930f92d75600cd97047ac64cd5-500pi.jpg?w=214\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/carolwallace.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/06\/6a00ccff930f92d75600cd97047ac64cd5-500pi.jpg?w=214\" width=\"143\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor caustic, you can't go wrong with Dorothy Parker. Here's what she said in The New Yorker about Lady Asquith: \"That gifted entertainer, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, author of \u003Ci\u003EThe Autobiography of Margot Asquith\u003C\/i\u003E (four volumes, neatly boxed, suitable for throwing purposes), reverts to tripe in a new book deftly entitled “Lay Sermons.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECited by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2013\/03\/26\/great-force\/\"\u003EQuote Investigator\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;as part of the evidence proving Dorothy did not actually quip, in a review of \u003Ci\u003EAtlas Shrugged\u003C\/i\u003E, \"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.\" \u0026nbsp;Alas. It made for good telling.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlease note: our\u0026nbsp;copy\u0026nbsp;of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1557126\"\u003EAsquith memoirs\u003C\/a\u003E is a one-volume abridged version.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1425561\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Strong Opinions\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1415049454l\/12188.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"126\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1816000\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"syndetics-lc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780684803357\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVladimir Nabokov on Hemingway, from his book \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1425561\"\u003EStrong Opinions\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E: “I read him for the first time in the early ‘forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" br=\"\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F--gKA98BthkY%2FVK5bSihqJMI%2FAAAAAAAAAvs%2FRgi69bR2jQs%2Fs1600%2FTS%252BEliot.jpeg\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" width=\"147\" \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/84\/Edgar_Allan_Poe_daguerreotype_crop.png\" height=\"200\" width=\"142\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ET.S. Eliot attributed to Edgar Allan Poe “the intellect of a highly gifted person before puberty.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E(1948 Library of Congress lecture \"From Poe to Valery\")\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1213622\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syndetics.com%2Findex.aspx%3Fisbn%3D9780151448203%2Fmc.gif%26upc%3D%26oclc%3D%26client%3Delgar\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2156179\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syndetics.com%2Findex.aspx%3Fisbn%3D9781582433158%2Fmc.gif%26upc%3D%26oclc%3D%26client%3Delgar\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMary McCarthy's judgement on Lillian Hellman, proferred during an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, caused Hellman to sue her for libel, possibly not the wisest decision (shades of Oscar Wilde) in view of how many people came forth to testify to Hellman fabrications. Of course, it depends on what you want to get out of it. McCarthy was not wealthy and the cost of defending herself nearly ruined her, which she always suspected was the reason why the wealthy Hellman would not let go, through five long years. Only with Hellman's death was the case extinguished, if not the grudge, which I picture having been so strong as to still be lurking somewhere in the universe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=2501884760724421053\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=2501884760724421053\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=2501884760724421053\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1864889\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syndetics.com%2Findex.aspx%3Fisbn%3D9781903933060%2Fmc.gif%26upc%3D%26oclc%3D%26client%3Delgar\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-yHbDWGvpcQA\/UFRTEwSERSI\/AAAAAAAAInw\/6xPPhDiWUh4\/s1600\/violet_trefusis.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-yHbDWGvpcQA%2FUFRTEwSERSI%2FAAAAAAAAInw%2F6xPPhDiWUh4%2Fs200%2Fviolet_trefusis.jpg\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=2501884760724421053\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EWhich reminds me of Nancy Mitford's quip that Violet Trefusis's memoir \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1428528\"\u003EDon't look round\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E, politely deemed \"unreliable\" by the Times Literary Supplement, ought to have been titled \u003Ci\u003EHere lies Mrs Trefusis.\u003C\/i\u003E (You can read more about Mrs.Trefusis, who never refuses, in the Books in the City post \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.co.nz\/2012\/03\/speak-memoir-title.html\"\u003ESpeak, Memoir title\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.wpclipart.com\/famous\/writer\/writers_M_to_S\/George_Bernard_Shaw.png\" height=\"200\" width=\"150\" \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2582798\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"syndetics-lc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9781844861194\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA tale of two lions: George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill. Shaw had a play premiering and sent two tickets for the show to Churchill with a note, \"Here are two tickets for my opening night. Bring a friend, if you have one\". Churchill returned them, also with a note. It said, \"Sorry, I'm busy that night, but I would be available for the second night, if you have one\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2012\/03\/25\/two-tickets-shaw\/\"\u003EQuote Investigator\u003C\/a\u003E says the jury is still out on the accuracy of this story, despite noting that it is on record that GBS, aged 94, recounted the anecdote to his doctor. You have to wonder if it were the lead-up to a jest about the uncertainties of being nearly a century old.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2526571\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syndetics.com%2Findex.aspx%3Fisbn%3D9780141182131%2Fmc.gif%26upc%3D%26oclc%3D%26client%3Delgar\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1594118\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syndetics.com%2Findex.aspx%3Fisbn%3D9781869416560%2Fmc.gif%26upc%3D%26oclc%3D%26client%3Delgar\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKatherine Mansfield had this to say about\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2526571\"\u003EHowards End\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eand its author, in her journal: \"E.M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd to finish off, my personal favourite.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDanger, danger, Janeites\u003C\/i\u003E! Someone's about to be outrageous about Jane Austen:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2522358\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syndetics.com%2Findex.aspx%3Fisbn%3D9780520946996%2Fmc.gif%26upc%3D%26oclc%3D%26client%3Delgar\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2298948\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2298948\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9781921372438\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn an 1898 letter to his friend Joseph Twichell, Mark Twain confided: “I often want to criticise Jane Austen but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader. Every time I read \u003Ci\u003EPride and Prejudice\u003C\/i\u003E, I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E--\u003Ci\u003EKaren\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/799175505197926442\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/the-wickedest-author-to-author-insults.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/799175505197926442"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/799175505197926442"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/the-wickedest-author-to-author-insults.html","title":"The wickedest author to author insults"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-6242825847394195028"},"published":{"$t":"2011-09-29T04:00:00.000+13:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-01-06T02:07:53.243+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"banned books"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Karen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mark Twain"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Mark Twain on banning Huck Finn"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-XJCpZKPi-j8\/UFUfXfGSgFI\/AAAAAAAAIr4\/GjjqseZSCcs\/s1600\/huckleberry_finn.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-XJCpZKPi-j8\/UFUfXfGSgFI\/AAAAAAAAIr4\/GjjqseZSCcs\/s320\/huckleberry_finn.jpg\" width=\"132\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EShould \u003Ci\u003EThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003C\/i\u003E be off-limits to children? I didn't dream that Mark Twain himself had answered a resounding \"Yes\" to this question which has been dividing America for years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Well, I'm cheating a little for the sake of the story. The reason some Americans today think that children should not read \u003Ci\u003EHuckleberry Finn\u003C\/i\u003E is that the book will expose their impressionistic minds to racism. Yes, \u003Ci\u003EHuckleberry Finn\u003C\/i\u003E indubitably depicts an era when slavery existed in half the states of America, and rampant racism in all of them. But how?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe anti-censorship camp points out how the book actually satirises the attitudes of its time, and note that the escaped slave Jim was made out by Mark Twain to be much more admirable than the white people pursuing him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe censorship camp thinks that all that doesn't matter. Jim is called \"Nigger Jim\" in the book, so the book has to be banned, or, for the milder component, rewritten so that he is called instead \"Slave Jim\". Whom are we kidding, you might ask. Even worse, why are we kidding them? What about their right to know about the historical injustices whose repercussions still affect the society they live in?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo much for the present and so much for seriousness. Now I'm going to tell you something I just learned during Banned Books Week about Mark Twain, who is never serious, and an attempt over 100 years ago by a crusading young librarian, presumably serious although you do need to suspend your disbelief when you hear what she had to say -- to ban \u003Ci\u003EHuckleberry Finn\u003C\/i\u003E from the Children's Room of the Brooklyn Public Library.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZW-WbmEKSMw\/UFUfjj54kwI\/AAAAAAAAIsE\/wBHf3yIuuHY\/s1600\/autobiography_of_mark_twain.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZW-WbmEKSMw\/UFUfjj54kwI\/AAAAAAAAIsE\/wBHf3yIuuHY\/s320\/autobiography_of_mark_twain.jpg\" width=\"132\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E The story is contained in an exchange of letters which Mark Twain included in his \u003Ci\u003EAutobiography of Mark Twain\u003C\/i\u003E, between the librarian Asa Dickinson who also worked at the Brooklyn Public Library (and by the way had studied with the great Melvil Dewey, the father of modern librarianship), and himself.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe crusading young librarian, who was Superintendent of the Children's Dept., had found out that there were copies of \u003Ci\u003EHuckleberry Finn\u003C\/i\u003E in the Children's Room (gasp!) and had given orders for them to be removed because Huck and his friend Tom Sawyer were \"bad examples for disingenious youth\". Mr Dickinson, who counted \u003Ci\u003EHuckleberry Finn\u003C\/i\u003E his best reading experience ever, thereupon wrote to Mark Twain asking him if he could intercede on behalf of this book he so loved:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EDear Sir: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EI happened to be present the other day at a meeting of the children's librarians of the Brooklyn Public Library. In the course of the meeting it was stated that copies of \"Tom Sawyer\" and \"Huckleberry Finn\" were to be found in some of the children's rooms of the system. The Sup't of the Children's Dep't -- a conscientious and enthusiastic young woman -- was greatly shocked to hear this, and at once ordered that they be transferred to the adults' department. Upon this I shamefacedly confessed to having read \"Huckleberry Finn\" aloud to my defenseless blind people, without regard to their age, color, or previous condition of servitude. I also reminded them of Brander Matthews's opinion of the book, and stated the fact that I knew it almost at heart, having got more pleasure from it than from any book I have ever read, and reading is the greatest pleasure I have in my life. My warm defense elicited some further discussion and criticism, from which I gathered what the prevailing opinion of Huck was and that he was a deceitful boy who said \"sweat\" when he should have said \"perspiration.\" \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EThe upshot of this matter was that there is to be further consideration of these books at a meeting early in January which I am especially invited to attend. Seeing you the other night at the performance of \"Peter Pan\" the thought came to me that you (you knows Huck as well as I -- you can't know him better or love him more -- ) might be willing to give me a word or two to say in witness of his good character though he \"warn't no more quality than a mud cat.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003EI would ask as a favor that you regard this communication as confidential, whether you find time to reply to it or not; for I am loath for obvious reasons to bring the institution from which I draw my salary into ridicule, contempt or reproach. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EYours very respectfully,\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsa Don Dickinson. \u003Cbr \/\u003E(In charge Department for the Blind and Sheepshead Bay Branch, Brooklyn Public Library.)\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere is the reply:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E21 Fifth Avenue,\u003Cbr \/\u003ENovember 21, 1905\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EDear Sir: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E I am greatly troubled by what you say. I wrote Tom Sawyer \u0026amp; Huck Finn for adults exclusively, \u0026amp; it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, \u0026amp; to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave. Ask that young lady - she will tell you so. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMost honestly do I wish I could say a softening word or two in defence of Huck's character, since you wish it, but really in my opinion it is no better than God's (in the Ahab \u0026amp; 97 others), \u0026amp; the rest of the sacred brotherhood. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf there is an Unexpurgated [Bible] in the Children's Department, won't you please help that young woman remove Tom \u0026amp; Huck from that questionable companionship? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESincerely yours,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ES. L. Clemens\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn the website \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.twainquotes.com\/index.html\"\u003Ewww.twainquotes.com\u003C\/a\u003E (which if you visit it you can also read features such as \"MARK TWAIN AND THE INFERNAL COUNTESS MASSIGLIA - the lowest-down woman on the planet\" and \"MARK TWAIN'S QUARREL WITH UNDERTAKERS: It All Begins with Jennie\") you can \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.twainquotes.com\/19351102.html\"\u003Eread the original story from \u003Ci\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E  when Asa Dickinson (no longer at Brooklyn Public Library but Head Librarian at Brooklyn College, I couldn't help noting) first made the letters public, in 1935.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2267289\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is at our library And so is the \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2522358\"\u003EAutobiography of Mark Twain\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6242825847394195028\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/mark-twain-on-banning-huck-finn.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/6242825847394195028"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/6242825847394195028"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/mark-twain-on-banning-huck-finn.html","title":"Mark Twain on banning Huck Finn"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"tosca"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DKeaBNqmKUo\/VBStvJvL4cI\/AAAAAAAAR4M\/ZsfOjoSDymI\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-XJCpZKPi-j8\/UFUfXfGSgFI\/AAAAAAAAIr4\/GjjqseZSCcs\/s72-c\/huckleberry_finn.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});