Title: Memos from Purgatory
First published: 1961
Description: Hemingway said, "A man should never write what he doesn't know," In the mid-fifties, Harlan Ellison--kicked out of college and hungry to write--went to New York to start his writing career.  It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades and zip guns made from car radio antennas.  Ellison was barely out of his teens himself, but he took a phony name, moved into Brooklyn's dangerous Red Hook section and managed to con his way into a "bopping club."  What he experienced (and the time he spent in jail as a result) was the basis for the violent story that Alfred Hitchcock filmed as the first of his hour-long TV dramas...This autobiography is a book whose message you won't be able to ignore or forget.
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency, Fiction, Fiction, horror, Gangs
Places: New York (State), New York
LC classification: HV9106.N6 E4