Roseann Quinn Roseann Quinn Roseann Quinn (November 17, 1944 – January 2, 1973) was an American schoolteacher in New York City who was stabbed to death in 1973. Her murder inspired Judith Rossner's best-selling 1975 novel "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", which was adapted as a 1977 film directed by Richard Brooks and starring Diane Keaton. Quinn's murder also inspired the 1977 account "" by "New York Times" journalist Lacey Fosburgh. The case was the subject of a Season 3 episode of Investigation Discovery's series A Crime to Remember in 2015 ("Last Night Stand"). Quinn was born in 1944 in the Bronx to
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