Her name was recently removed from an award due to her depiction

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Reader Blind Item

A tale of three deceased writers.

The first is not really a blind item as it received full coverage by the media.

This writer wrote on a particular time in American history and the migratory experience of the Americans in her day. Her books have been used in schools and inspired a very popular TV show that had several spin-offs.

Her name was recently removed from an award due to her depiction, which was in keeping with the times in which she lived, of certain ethnic groups.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The second writer has had his name recently removed from a room within a public library in the Northeastern city he was from.

This writer wrote fiction of a specific genre, primarily short stories, and he died at a young age.

He was very influential in his genre as he created a whole structured mythos.

However, he was also a big believer in white supremacy and was deeply xenophobic and anti-immigrant.

H.P. Lovecraft

The third was a British writer who recently had a follow-up to an earlier BBC documentary show on his life canceled.

This writer wrote many works of literature and felt slighted he didn’t win a Nobel Prize.

His most famous book which was made into a critically acclaimed and successful movie involves a made-up language and a Dysotopian future.

As a young man, he taught English in a British colony where he enjoyed himself with underage prostitutes and wrote about it although The BBC apparently only just noticed that.

Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange

American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children’s books, published between 1932 and 1943, which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.

Librarians Airbrush Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Name from Award

Who’s next? Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Hemingway?

Politically correct radicals are now beating up on Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the beloved “Little House on the Prairie” children’s books, which inspired a long-running TV series starring Michael Landon that ran from 1974 to 1983.

The Association of Library Services for Children, a part of the larger American Library Association, has unanimously voted to strip Wilder’s name from a prestigious book award it has given since 1954. The reason? “Wilder’s legacy, as represented by her body of work, includes expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with ALSC’s core values of inclusiveness, integrity and respect, and responsiveness.”

To its horror the group notes that Wilder’s novels include “statements by white characters portraying Native Americans as dirty, lazy, and dangerous.”

The example that almost every Wilder critic cites is this passage in book she wrote in 1935:

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no people. Only Indians lived there.

Every other example simply reports on the attitudes of one character or another on Native Americans. – Source