Banning books is not new, and has happened closer to home than you might have thought. In a recent issue of Junction Magazine, Isaac Lorton has uncovered the story of The Professor’s Wife, a fictionalized account of the lives of Dartmouth academics published in 1928. Its author, Bravig Imbs—later to be part of Gertrude Stein’s circle in Paris—attended Dartmouth College as a student in the early 1920s and lived in a professor’s home as a sort of butler. He wrote what he saw. Dartmouth was not amused.
Banned . . . in Hanover?
Banned . . . in Hanover?
Banned . . . in Hanover?
Banning books is not new, and has happened closer to home than you might have thought. In a recent issue of Junction Magazine, Isaac Lorton has uncovered the story of The Professor’s Wife, a fictionalized account of the lives of Dartmouth academics published in 1928. Its author, Bravig Imbs—later to be part of Gertrude Stein’s circle in Paris—attended Dartmouth College as a student in the early 1920s and lived in a professor’s home as a sort of butler. He wrote what he saw. Dartmouth was not amused.