Prison Writings in 20th-Century America

H. Bruce Franklin

Original title: Prison Writing in 20th-Century America

earliest edition we have, 1998 Penguin Books, 1998 368 pages

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.

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Prison Writings in 20th-Century America edition · 1998 · Tandem Library · 9781417703845
Prison writing in 20th-century America edition · 1998 · Penguin Books · 368 pages

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