Charles Yale Harrison "New Masses" communist literary magazine in New York City while under editor-in-chief Walt Carmon. Harrison's last novel, "Nobody's Fool", was published in 1948. Harrison married three times; he was widowed in 1931, later remarried and divorced his second wife, and was survived by his third wife at his death. He was an uncle of novelist Judith Rossner, author of "Looking for Mr. Goodbar". Suffering from the heart condition that inspired his self-help memoir, he died in 1954. Columbia University has an archive of Harrison's papers, which include correspondence with: Whittaker Chambers, Clarence Darrow, Ruby Darrow, John Dos Passos, Max Eastman,
Looking for Alaska for Reconsideration on the basis that "Looking For Alaska" would tempt students to experiment with drugs, alcohol, and sex despite the decisions made after the challenge. Two teachers at Depew High School near Buffalo, New York, used the book for eleventh grade instruction in 2008. "Looking For Alaska" was challenged by parents for its sexual content and moral disagreements with the novel. Despite the teachers providing an alternate book, parents still argued for it to be removed from curriculum due to its inappropriate content such as offensive language, sexually explicit content, including a scene described as "pornographic", and references to