Robert Herrick attacked “A Farewell to Arms” in an article entitled “What Is Dirt?” in the November issue of Bookman.
1930 Boston MA: “The Sun Also Rises” was banned. 1933 Germany: Works burned in the Nazi bonfires. 1938 United States-Detroit, MI: “To Have and Have Not” was removed from public sale and from circulation in the public library, but preserved among works by “writers of standing.” It was also barred from sale by the Prosecutor of Wayne County on complaint of Catholic organizations. 1939 Ireland: “A Farewell to Arms” banned. 1941 United States-New York, NY: When the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board recommended “For Whom the Bells Tolls” for the 1940 prize, Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler said “I hope that you will reconsider before you ask the University to be associated with an award for work of this nature.” 1953 Ireland: “The Sun also Rises” and “Across the River and into the Trees” were banned. 1956 South Africa-Johannesburg: “Across the River and into the Trees” was banned as “objectionable and obscene.
