Ah Yes.

During the height of its controversy, in 1966, harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was removed from the shelves of schools of the Hanover County School Board in Virginia. Once Lee was made privy to the situation she responded perfectly with:



 Monroeville,
 Alabama,
 January,
 1966


 Editor, The News Leader:

 Recently I have received echoes down this way of the Hanover County School Board's activities, and what I've heard makes me wonder if any of its members can read. Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that "To Kill a Mockingbird" spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners. To hear that the novel is "immoral" has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink. I feel, however, that the problem is one of illiteracy, not Marxism. Therefore I enclose a small contribution to the Beadle Bumble Fund that I hope will be used to enroll the Hanover County School Board in any first grade of its choice.

 Harper Lee