Prison writing in 20th-century America
By: edited by H. Bruce Franklin ; with a foreword by Tom Wicker.
Contributors: Franklin, H. Bruce 1934-
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Prisoner's writings, American.; Prisoners -- Literary collections.; Prisons -- Literary collections.; American literature -- 20th century.
Other titles: Prision writing in twentieth-century America
Description: This unique collection dramatizes the history of the modern American prison and offers a harrowing vision of prison life in America today. H. Bruce Franklin, a leading authority on American prison writing, has gathered more than sixty selections from some of the most powerful works - memoirs, stories, novels, poemswritten in the last hundred years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-18).