John Deane Potter
Joined August 2016
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Renowned Fleet Street journalist, writer, and columnist. (1912-1981)
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Frank Harris Banned Book My Life and Loves
When the memoirs of Frank Harris were first published, in the easily shockable 1920s, the book fell into the same notorious category as its near-contemporaries Lady Chatterley's Lover and Ulysses: it was a book guaranteed to bring the prospect of a jail sentence to any bookseller foolhardy enough to stock it. And so it remained for several decades, a collector's item, more familiar by repute than by reading. The US and Britain banned it for approximately 40 years. The book not only failed to achieve the circulation Harris hoped for, but it also escaped the normal process of critical review and discussion.
By John Deane Potter8 years ago in Filthy