Thomas SeltzerThomas Seltzer (1875, Russia - 1943, New York City) was a Russian-American translator, editor and book publisher. As a result of publishing controversial writers, Seltzer was attacked by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice in 1922 and al copies of D. H.Lawrence's Women in Love, Arthur Schnitzler's Casanova's Homecoming, and the anonymously written A Young Girl's Diary were confiscated. Seltzer refused to back down, retaining a lawyer and fighting the attempted censorship in the court case People v. Seltzer. Although victorious, it was not to be the end of Seltzer's fight against censorship, as he was charged with publishing "unclean" books in 1923; once again, D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love was the impetus for the charges. Fighting censorship charges eventually led Seltzer's publishing efforts into bankruptcy. Read More Read Less