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>> 363 About the Author Marjorie Heins is a civil liberties lawyer, writer, and teacher and the founding director of the Free Expression Policy Project. From 1991 to 1998, she directed the American Civil Liberties Union’s Arts Censorship Project. More recently, she was a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and at the Frederic Ewen Center for Academic Freedom, both at New York University. Her previous books include Strictly Ghetto Property: The Story of Los Siete de la Raza; Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence; Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America’s Censorship Wars; and Not in Front of the Children: “Indecency,” Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth, which won the American Library Association’s 2002 Eli Oboler Award for best published work in the field of intellectual freedom. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School. ...