About the Author

Robert Darnton is the author of many award-winning works in French cultural history, and taught for years at Princeton and Harvard. He is a chevalier in the Légion d’Honneur, and winner of the National Humanities Medal.

Reviews

"There is no better guide to the inside story of censorship in the past or present than the internationally renowned historian Robert Darnton. He makes the most prosaic encounters come to life…Darnton brings all his skills and passions for books to this fascinating study of censorship in three different times and places and draws a number of conclusions that will be of interest to readers everywhere."
*Lynn Hunt, author of Inventing Human Rights*

"A vivid, fascinating study of would-be controllers of literary output."
*Felipe Fernández-Armesto - Wall Street Journal*