Lacey Fosburgh that publication and others, notably covering the Patty Hearst/Symbionese Liberation Army case from 1974 to 1976, and the Peoples Temple case in 1978. She was also one of the few people to interview reclusive author J. D. Salinger, in 1974. She taught journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1977, Fosburgh—appropriating the title of Judith Rossner's acclaimed best-selling novel, "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" (1975)--published her first book, "Closing Time: The True Story of the "Goodbar" Murder", the story of the 1973 slaying of young schoolteacher Roseann Quinn, which Fosburgh had covered for "The New York Times". The book
Looking for Alaska on the Honors and Advanced Placement classes' required reading lists for Knox County high schools on the grounds that its sex scene and its use of profanity rendered it pornography. Ultimately, students were kept from reading the novel as a whole, but "Looking For Alaska" was still available in libraries within the district. In May 2012, Sumner County in Tennessee also banned the teaching of "Looking For Alaska". The school's spokesman argued that two pages of the novel included enough explicit content to ban the novel. Further controversy came from the cover art. In August 2012, Green acknowledged that the