Challenge reasons: Obscenity, sexual content
Tropic of Cancer

This book was banned by US Customs in 1934. In Grove Press v. Gerstein (1964) the Supreme Court of the US found that the book was not obscene.
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Banned & Challenged Books
Challenge reasons: Obscenity, sexual content
This book was banned by US Customs in 1934. In Grove Press v. Gerstein (1964) the Supreme Court of the US found that the book was not obscene.