ABSTRACT
In recent years, Steinbeck’s 1937 classic Of Mice and Men rose to the top of the most challenged books in American schools from 1982 to 1995 (Attacks on, 1995, appendices, no page). Although this story about hope and love in the midst of misery still has the power to move first-time readers to tears, it also moves would-be censors to complain about profanity, prejudice, irreligion, and euthanasia. In 1994-1995, for instance, from Loganville, Georgia, to Bemidji, Minnesota, to Galena, Kansas, parents requested the book be removed from classroom reading lists and library shelves (Attacks on, pp. 85, 129, 103).
