Marjorie Heins is a former civil liberties lawyer and author of several books, among them: "Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge," which won the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in Book Publishing. Her other title's include: "Not in Front of the Children: Indecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth" (2nd edition, 2007), which won the American Library Association's Eli Oboler Award for best published work in the field of intellectual freedom; and "Ironies and Complications of Free Speech," a collection of news and commentary from the Free Expression Policy Project, which she directed from 2001-2017. In the 1990s, she directed the Arts Censorship Project at the ACLU. She has also been a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, the Open Society Institute, and the Frederic Ewen Center for Academic Freedom. She lives in Manhattan and volunteers as a tour guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Marjorie Heins is a former civil liberties lawyer and author of several books, among them: "Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge," which won the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in Book Publishing. Her other title's include: "Not in Front of the Children: Indecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth" (2nd edition, 2007), which won the American Library Association's Eli Oboler Award for best published work in the field of intellectual freedom; and "Ironies and Complications of Free Speech," a collection of news and commentary from the Free Expression Policy Project, which she directed from 2001-2017. In the 1990s, she directed the Arts Censorship Project at the ACLU. She has also been a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, the Open Society Institute, and the Frederic Ewen Center for Academic Freedom. She lives in Manhattan and volunteers as a tour guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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