Iowa author of challenged book ‘Crushing It’ speaks at Book Ban Festival in Des Moines

Iowa author Erin Becker first saw her name in print when she was 5 years old.

The fourth Harry Potter book had come out and was being pulled from school libraries in Cedar Rapids for incentivizing witchcraft.

“I thought that was really terrible and I was a big fan of the books, so I wrote a letter to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette,” she said…

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