Clarence Page: Here’s why I celebrate banned books

Congratulations to this year’s notable authors of banned books.

According to the Chicago-based American Library Association, whose Office for Intellectual Freedom keeps track of such things, schools and public libraries are headed toward another record-breaking year of attempts to ban or otherwise challenge books.

As a fellow scrivener, I offer my congratulations to those authors as my way of expressing both sympathy and admiration. Sure, nobody likes to wind up on someone else’s list of deplorables,