Which SF author was unable to check his own work out of the library due to insufficient security clearance?
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I'm not sure if this is it but Philip Wylie was put under house arrest in 1945 due to his writing being too close to atomic secrecy. That's not quite the same thing but he couldn't check out his own books while this was going on: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Wylie
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