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The emergence of prison writing relied on convicts with the necessary writing skills to tell their stories from the inside. Early writings came from prisoners who had already begun to publish before being arrested. Among these early-20th-century writers was Jack London, who spent a month in 1894 in New York State's Erie County Penitentiary ...
Some other 20th-century prison writers include Jim Tully, Ernest Booth, Chester Himes, Nelson Algren, Robert Lowell, George Jackson, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Kathy Boudin. Incarcerated authors of the 21st century, such as Arthur Longworth, author of Zek: An American Prison Story, have continued this tradition.
Heather Ann Thompson is an American historian, author, activist, professor, and speaker from Detroit, Michigan. Thompson won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2016 Bancroft Prize, and five other awards for her work Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. This book was also a finalist for the Cundill Prize ...
During the twentieth century, as the rehabilitative and prisoners' rights movements gained momentum, most U.S. penitentiaries had some kind of prison-produced newspaper or magazine.
Tallack was one of the many critics of the prison administrator Edmund Frederick Du Cane, who included the Home Secretary H. H. Asquith and the prison chaplain William Douglas Morrison, but also found some emollient words for him, in 1894. [3] [4] His successor at the Howard Association at the end of 1901 was Edward Grubb. [5]
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.
Carolyn Baxter (born 1953) [1] is an African-American poet, playwright, and musician. [2] [3] [4] Baxter is from Harlem, New York.She was a participant in the Black Panthers School Breakfast Program.
Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.