Prison Writing in 20th-Century America

H. Bruce Franklin (Editor) Tom Wicker (Foreword by)

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.

Product Details

Price

$22.00

Publisher

Penguin Books

Publish Date

June 01, 1998

Pages

384

Dimensions

5.16 X 7.78 X 0.92 inches | 0.68 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9780140273052

BISAC Categories:

Anthologies (multiple authors)

Literary

Psychological

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About the Author

Tom Wicker covered American politics at The New York Times from 1960 to the early 1990s, when he succeeded Arthur Krock as writer of the "In the Nation" column. He is the author of several books of nonfiction, including One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream, and JFK and LBJ, as well as several novels.

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