Banned Books Timeline By VeritasAcademy 23 Laurie Halse Anderson Birth Period: 1582 to 1616 William Shakespeare Period: 1754 to 1825 Thomas Bowdler Period: May 31, 1819 to Mar 26, 1892 Walt Whitman Period: Nov 30, 1835 to Apr 21, 1910 Mark Twain Period: Mar 7, 1844 to Sep 21, 1915 Anthony Comstock Jul 4, 1855 Leaves of Grass Period: Jul 12, 1871 to Jan 20, 1961 Caroll Moore Mar 3, 1873 The Comstock Act Mar 11, 1873 Comstock Law Period: Sep 14, 1879 to Sep 6, 1966 Margaret Sanger Dec 10, 1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Period: Sep 11, 1885 to Mar 2, 1930 D H Lawrence Period: Sep 24, 1896 to Oct 21, 1940 F Scott Fitzgerald Period: Apr 22, 1899 to Jul 2, 1977 Vladimir Nabokov 1914 Family Limitation Period: Jan 1, 1919 to Jan 27, 2010 J. D. Salinger Period: Aug 22, 1920 to Jun 5, 2012 Ray Bradbury 1921 People of the State of NY v. Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap Feb 2, 1922 Ulysses Publication Apr 10, 1925 The Great Gatsby Period: Apr 28, 1926 to Feb 19, 2016 Harper Lee Period: Jun 3, 1926 to Mar 5, 1997 Allen Ginsberg Feb 18, 1931 Toni Morrison Born Dec 6, 1933 United States v. One Book Called 'Ulysses' Feb 12, 1938 Judy Blume Birth Feb 9, 1944 Alice Walker Birth Feb 15, 1948 Art Spiegelman Birth Jul 16, 1951 Catcher in the Rye Published Oct 19, 1953 Fahrenheit 451 1955 Lolita published 1956 Howl Publication Jul 11, 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird Jul 31, 1965 J K Rowling Birth 1970 Are you there god it’s me Margaret 1982 The Color Purple Period: Feb 2, 1982 to Jan 13, 1941 James Joyce 1986 Maus: A Survivors Tale 1987 Beloved Sep 20, 1988 Angie Thomas Born Jun 26, 1997 Harry Potter book 1 published Oct 22, 1999 Speak Published Feb 28, 2017 The Hate you Give