The Newton, Kansas native was also a founder of the writing program at the University of Cincinnati,[3] where he served as professor emeritus in the Department of English from 1963 until 1995.
In 1967, New Yorker Carl Gorton happened to read Wiebe's short story, "Skyblue on the Dump" in Farmington Public Library's copy of The Paris Review #39.
[8] The removal was reported in The New York Times, where Gorton was quoted as stating that the story "'should not be available to minors" or made available "at the expenditure of taxpayers' dollars.
[9] The editor of The Paris Review, George Plimpton, denounced the censoring of the magazine in the June 1967 New York Newsday article titled "Literary Lion Roars Back."
Students from the State University of New York-Farmingdale publicly protested the censorship outside of the South Farmingdale library branch.