Editing Sophie's Choice (novel) (section)

====Other aspects of global controversy====
''Sophie's Choice'' was banned by the [[Goskomizdat]] agency as part of [[censorship in the Soviet Union]], and was [[Censorship in Communist Poland|likewise banned by the censors]] in the Communist [[People's Republic of Poland]] for "its unflinching portrait of Polish anti-Semitism" in the interwar [[Second Polish Republic]] and in the postwar [[Soviet Bloc]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Sirlin, Rhoda |author2=West, James L. W. III | date = 2007 | title = Sophie's Choice: A Contemporary Casebook | location = Newcastle UK | publisher = Cambridge Scholars Publishing  | page = ix | url = http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/60485 | access-date = 5 Jan 2013 | quote = }}</ref>

''Sophie's Choice'' was [[censorship in South Africa|banned by censors]] working for the government of [[South Africa under apartheid]] in November 1979, for being a sexually explicit work.<ref>Index on censorship, Vol 9, no 2.{{clarify|date = May 2023}}{{full citation needed|date = May 2023}}</ref>{{full citation needed|date = May 2023}} It has also been banned in some high schools in the United States. For instance, the book was pulled from the [[La Mirada High School]] Library in California by the Norwalk-La Mirada High School District in 2002 because of a parent's complaint about its sexual content.<ref name="LAT">{{cite news | last = Helmand | first = Duke |title = Students Fight for 'Sophie's Choice' | newspaper = [[The Los Angeles Times]] |date = 2001-12-22 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-22-me-17211-story.html | access-date = February 25, 2016}}</ref> However, a year after students had protested and the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] (ACLU) had sent a letter to the school district requesting that the district reverse its actions, students were again given access to the book in the school library.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aclu-wa.org/library_files/A%20History%20of%20Fighting%20Censorship.pdf|title=A History of Fighting Censorship|publisher=[[American Civil Liberties Union]]|year=2006|access-date=2009-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223201015/http://www.aclu-wa.org/library_files/A%20History%20of%20Fighting%20Censorship.pdf|archive-date=2010-12-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sshl.ucsd.edu/banned/books.html|title=Banned Books Week: September 25-October 2|date=September 22, 2004|publisher=[[UCSD]]|access-date=2009-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511235655/http://sshl.ucsd.edu/banned/books.html|archive-date=May 11, 2008}}</ref>