num_pages: 384
description: Doing Time stirs readers by heightening their awareness of the struggle of men and women behind bars to keep their humanity. This collection of the best of PEN's annual prison writing contest celebrates fifty-one writers and their ability not only to write with passion and eloquence but also to create art in the most dire of circumstances.
language: English
title: Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing
titlecomplete: Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing (A PEN American Center Prize Anthology)
genres: Essays, Crime, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Stories
ratings_count: 86
publisher: Arcade Publishing