Sherman Alexie on Book Banning and Censorship

Sherman Alexie is the winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award, the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the 2001 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, and a Special Citation for the 1994 PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction. He is also one of the most frequently challenged authors in America. Watch Alexie discuss book banning, censorship, and the erotic novel to which one would-be book banner compared his young adult novel.