<page_title> List of books banned by governments </page_title> <section_title> Alphabetical list </section_title> <table> <cell> William Pynchon <col_header> Author </col_header> </cell> <cell> The first book banned in the New World. Pynchon, a prominent leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony who, in 1636, founded the City of Springfield, Massachusetts, wrote this explicit critique of Puritanism, published in London in 1650. <col_header> Description of the case(s) </col_header> </cell> </table>
William Pynchon was the original patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the author of the New World's first banned book.