19 June 2023
In 2015, PW first interviewed Emily Knox for her then-new Book Banning in 21st-Century America, a fascinating exploration of how and why people challenge books and what those challenges tell us about the immense power of reading. An associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and board president of the National Coalition Against Censorship, Knox's work studying book bans and censorship is perhaps more important today than ever.
