Born October 16, 1888 in New York, renowned American playwright Eugene O’Neill made Boston history when his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Strange Interlude, was barred from production here. Neil Miller, author of Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil, tells the story of how the city canceled […]
Find out more »Born October 16, 1888 in New York, renowned American playwright Eugene O’Neill made Boston history when his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Strange Interlude, was barred from production here. Neil Miller, author of Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil, tells the story of how the city canceled […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.