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This category is for autobiographies or memoirs in book form dealing with significant episodes of imprisonment, or by a prison guard or officer. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Tara Reid has been a constant subject of tabloid headlines ever since hitting it big in 1999's American Pie. ET visited the actress at home to find out how she copes with all the negative press.
Hers is the only known first person narrative of an Ottoman prisoner and is the earliest known women's prison memoir in the Middle East. Nien Cheng, author of Life and Death in Shanghai. 1987. London: Grafton Books. ISBN 0-586-07115-6 (theme: denunciation of Maoism)
One of the most widely read early accounts of prison life in the 20th century was My Life in Prison (1912), by Donald Lowrie. The book inspired Thomas Mott Osborne, who later became warden at Sing Sing, to dedicate his career to prison reform.
The book begins with a segment she produced on Garwood. Spite House, published 1997 and also written by Monika Jensen-Stevenson, gives a detailed account of an attempt by one of Lt. Colonel McKenny's commando teams to kill Garwood in a North Vietnamese jungle camp for allegedly collaborating with the enemy. It then tells of McKenney's ...
I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir is the second autobiographical memoir of American musician Brian Wilson, written by journalist Ben Greenman through several months of interviews with Wilson. [1] [2] It was intended to supplant Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story, Wilson's disowned autobiography from 1991. [3]
Prison literature is the literary genre of works written by an author in unwilling confinement, such as a prison, jail or house arrest. [1] The writing can be about prison, informed by it, or simply incidentally written while in prison. It could be a memoir, nonfiction, or fiction.
Remember This House is an unfinished manuscript by James Baldwin, a memoir of his personal recollections of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. [1] [2] Following Baldwin's 1987 death, publishing company McGraw-Hill sued his estate to recover the $200,000 advance they had paid him for the book, although the ...