My Life In Prison (Heathen Edition) - 9781948316224

Charles Donald Lowrie (1875-1925) left his Massachusetts home as a young man and hopscotched westward working as a stenographer, construction camp timekeeper, bookkeeper, railroad laborer, and traveling salesman before finding himself in Los Angeles starving and broke save for a vandalized nickel in his pocket - a nickel that would decide his fate: "heads" meant crime, "tails" meant suicide. What he couldn't know as he flipped that coin was that fate would soon deliver a 15-year "jolt" in San Quentin State Prison and a wildly unique literary career. Pursuing his burgeoning authorial ambitions by lamplight in his prison cell, Lowrie's work caught the eye of a San Francisco newspaper editor who assisted with his gaining parole after ten years. The editor immediately put him to work and My Life in Prison was birthed to overnight success, kickstarting the American prison literature genre and instigating nationwide prison reforms still in effect today.

• | Author: Donald Lowrie
• | Publisher: Heathen Editions
• | Publication Date: Mar 26, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 448 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1948316226
• | ISBN-13: 9781948316224