Adam Tritt, a high school English teacher in Melbourne, Florida, was up at dawn on April 3. He worked a full day and then drove to meet his wife and a dozen volunteers who organised an event to distribute banned books to young people and their parents. They gave out 900 books that night.
Tritt has been hosting these events for the past year through his organisation Foundation 451, a reference to Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 set in a dystopian world in which the government burns illegal books. He has received death threats, but these only encourage him to give away more books.
