Renée Felice Smith will read from To Kill a Mockingbird as a participant in Forbidden Fruit which is a celebration of literary freedom and expression sponsored by PEN Center USA.
The event is scheduled on May 5, 2013 from 4:40 – 6:30 pm at a private estate in Los Angeles.
PEN Center USA consists of over 600 members including writers, poets, playwrights, essayists and novelists. The vision of PEN Center USA is to create a world in which freedom of expression is a guarantee for all writers. PEN Center USA wants to make sure that all books like Crime and Punishment, Catch-22, Pride and Prejudice, The Lord of the Rings, A Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451, and Animal Farm just to name a few, remain available for all to read, for all time, and are free from censorship and suppression.
NCISLA Magazine will send special correspondent, Michelle Carlbert (@Mokibobolink) to cover this event, so stop by for more news on this event soon!
To find out more about the event and how to order tickets please go to Forbidden Fruit.
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man’s eternal fight against tyranny of every kind.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
