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Earl Lee is an author and librarian who frequently writes on Free thought and Censorship issues.

Earl Lee has Masters degrees from the University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin) and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Lee has publications in a wide variety of journals, including The Humanist, Religious Humanism, The Match!, American Libraries, The Journal of Information Ethics, and he is the author of a novel Drakulya: the Lost Journal (See Sharp, 1994), a collection of essays Libraries in the Age of Mediocrity (McFarland, 1998), and a chapbook Among the Cannibal Christians (See Sharp, 1999). In 2001 the premier of his play Drakulya was performed at Memorial Auditorium in Pittsburg, Kansas.

Lee's articles have been anthologized in the biennial Alternative Library Literature (McFarland), and his article on textbook censorship appeared in the bestselling anthology You Are Being Lied To (Disinfo, 2000). His essay "Libraries, Libertarianism and The State" is the premier essay in his book Libraries in the Age of Mediocrity (McFarland, 1998). This article examines libraries as a Modernist institution trying to adapt to a Postmodern world. Lee's views have been described as libertarian, libertarian socialist, and anarchist in nature.

He has also written a series of humorous novels based on the fundamentalist Left Behind series. The first novel Raptured: The Final Daze of the Late, Great Planet Earth was published in 2007. The series is entitled Kiss My-- Left Behind.

Lee has also written the foreword to The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition. This book represents the classic novel by Upton Sinclair as it was first published, before the the heavily edited "commercial edition" was published in 1906 by Doubleday, Page.

Prof. Lee is Head of Technical Services and Collection Development Librarian at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas; and he was recently promoted to the rank of University Professor, an honor limited to only the top 5% of the faculty at PSU.

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