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FROM: "Marla" <[removed]@mtlib.org>
REC'D: 12/1/04, 9:27 AM

Hi. I have a coworker who is looking for prison testimony type books. They can be
either fiction or nonfiction.

We have the classics Run, Baby, Run by Nicky Cruz, The Cross and the Switchblade
by David Wilkerson, and 70x7 and Beyond by Monty Christensen.

Does anyone have any further suggestions? I have tried a few quick and dirty
searches on Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com but haven't come up with too
much.

Just hoping there are a few more options.... Thanks!

Marla/Great Falls Public Library
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls MT 59401-2593
[removed]@mtlib.org

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practised in the leisure of peace.
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FROM: BookBitch <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 12/1/04, 10:06 AM

Marla,

I'm not positive this is what you are looking for
"prison testimony type books" but Jeffrey Archer has
written two prison memoirs - A Prison Diary &
Purgatory : A Prison Diary Volume 2 (with a third
volume due out next summer) and Wally Lamb edited a
book - Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from
Our Imprisoned Sisters written by women inmates at a
prison where he taught writing.

Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Boca Raton, Florida

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FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 12/1/04, 10:24 AM

Good annotated list of fiction and nonfiction
here:

http://books.prisonwall.org/

although they miss one of the very best novels -
Malcolm Braly's 'On The Yard.'

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David Wright - Seattle Public Library Fiction Dept.

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
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FROM: "Benoun, Kathleen" <[removed]@secstate.wa.gov>
REC'D: 12/1/04, 11:01 AM

12-1-04

How about MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER, by Nathan McCall (non-fiction)

-----Original Message-----
From: Marla [[removed]@mtlib.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 7:15 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Prison testimony request

Hi. I have a coworker who is looking for prison testimony type books. They
can be
either fiction or nonfiction.

We have the classics Run, Baby, Run by Nicky Cruz, The Cross and the
Switchblade
by David Wilkerson, and 70x7 and Beyond by Monty Christensen.

Does anyone have any further suggestions? I have tried a few quick and
dirty
searches on Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com but haven't come up with too
much.

Just hoping there are a few more options.... Thanks!

Marla/Great Falls Public Library
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls MT 59401-2593
[removed]@mtlib.org

*************
For reason will convince us that what is necessary to be
performed in the heat of action should constantly be
practised in the leisure of peace.
Vegetius, EPITOMA REI MILITARIS

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 12/1/04, 11:13 AM

I don't know if this is the kind of book you have in mind, but one title that
surfaces in my head was Iin the Belly of the Beast by Jack Henry Abbott.
Also, I understand that O'Henry wrote a great many of his short stories from
behind bars, but again, I don't know if that counts.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

In a message dated 12/1/2004 10:19:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@mtlib.org writes:
Hi. I have a coworker who is looking for prison testimony type books. They
can be
either fiction or nonfiction.

We have the classics Run, Baby, Run by Nicky Cruz, The Cross and the
Switchblade
by David Wilkerson, and 70x7 and Beyond by Monty Christensen.

Does anyone have any further suggestions? I have tried a few quick and dirty
searches on Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com but haven't come up with too
much.

Just hoping there are a few more options.... Thanks!

Marla/Great Falls Public Library
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls MT 59401-2593
[removed]@mtlib.org

FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 12/1/04, 11:25 AM

Be sure to try the link marked 'Journals' on this
page, which opens up a whole other page of Prison
writing...

--- David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> Good annotated list of fiction and nonfiction
> here:
>
> http://books.prisonwall.org/
>
> although they miss one of the very best novels
> -
> Malcolm Braly's 'On The Yard.'
>
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 12/1/04, 11:30 AM

In a message dated 12/1/2004 11:19:00 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@yahoo.com writes:
Good annotated list of fiction and nonfiction
here:

http://books.prisonwall.org/

although they miss one of the very best novels -
Malcolm Braly's 'On The Yard.'
As far as I can tell, they also missed In the Belly of the Beast, Papillon,
Stalag 17, Hogan's Heroes, and The Great Escape. (If one is interested in a
broad definition of prison.)

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Candice Michalik <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 12/1/04, 12:15 PM

True Notebooks by Mark Salzman is not truly prison
testimony, but your coworker may want to read it
anyway. Mr. Salzman taught a writing class at a
juvenile detention center. This is his story as well
as the story of the inmates. Some of their writings
are quite moving.

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Candice Michalik
Reference Librarian
Lynchburg Public Library
Lynchburg, VA
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FROM: "Dehoff, Christine" <[removed]@ecc.edu>
REC'D: 12/1/04, 12:33 PM

True Notebooks, by Mark Salzman, might work. Its focus is incarcerated
young adults.

Christine Dehoff, Dept. Chair
Library Resource Center
Erie Community College City Campus
121 Ellicott St.
Buffalo, NY 14203

FROM: "Peel, Nancy" <[removed]@city.windsor.on.ca>
REC'D: 12/1/04, 1:01 PM

There's a Canadian book that might fit this category: Go-Boy! Memories of a
life behind bars, by Roger Caron. It is non-fiction.

Nancy Peel
Windsor Public Library
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Subject: Prison testimony request
From: "Marla" <[removed]@mtlib.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 08:15:01 -0700

Hi. I have a coworker who is looking for prison testimony type books. They
can be
either fiction or nonfiction.

We have the classics Run, Baby, Run by Nicky Cruz, The Cross and the
Switchblade
by David Wilkerson, and 70x7 and Beyond by Monty Christensen.

Does anyone have any further suggestions? I have tried a few quick and
dirty
searches on Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com but haven't come up with too
much.

Just hoping there are a few more options.... Thanks!

Marla/Great Falls Public Library
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls MT 59401-2593
[removed]@mtlib.org

FROM: "Laurie Farr Kindler" <[removed]@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 12/1/04, 2:26 PM

How about A Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos. It's his autobiography, and he
describes time spent in jail as a young man.

> Laurie Farr Kindler
Librarian for Teens
Northport-East Northport Public Library

>
> Hi. I have a coworker who is looking for prison testimony type books. They
> can be
> either fiction or nonfiction.
>
> We have the classics Run, Baby, Run by Nicky Cruz, The Cross and the
> Switchblade
> by David Wilkerson, and 70x7 and Beyond by Monty Christensen.
>
> Does anyone have any further suggestions? I have tried a few quick and
> dirty
> searches on Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com but haven't come up with too
> much.
>
> Just hoping there are a few more options.... Thanks!
>
> Marla/Great Falls Public Library
> 301 2nd Ave N
> Great Falls MT 59401-2593
> [removed]@mtlib.org
>
> *************
> For reason will convince us that what is necessary to be
> performed in the heat of action should constantly be
> practised in the leisure of peace.
> Vegetius, EPITOMA REI MILITARIS
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FROM: "Macee T. Damon" <[removed]@MIT.EDU>
REC'D: 12/1/04, 3:23 PM

Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan and In the Name of the Father by Gerry Conlon.
Both are nonfiction.

Borstal Boy is about the arrest of the author (a noted playwright in later
years) in Liverpool when he was 16 for suspected IRA activity. The book
recounts his two years spent in borstal, a British term for reformatory.

In the Name of the Father is about the arrest and imprisonment of Gerry
Conlon, his father, and several others (the "Guildford Four") for bombings
at an English pub in 1974. A 1993 film based on the book starred Daniel
Day-Lewis. The book was originally published as Proved Innocent.

Cheers
Macee

Dispensing timeless pearls of wisdom, Fiction_L, you wrote the following on
03:00 PM 12/1/2004:

>Hi. I have a coworker who is looking for prison testimony type books. They
>can be
>either fiction or nonfiction.

Macee T. Damon
Copy Cataloger | Cataloging & Metadata Services
MIT Libraries | Rm. 14E-210B | Cambridge, MA
phone: 617-253-0746 | email: [removed]@mit.edu

FROM: "Christine Perkins" <[removed]@burlington.lib.wa.us>
REC'D: 12/1/04, 3:34 PM

How about "Life in Prison" by Stanley "Tookie" Williams, one of the original
founders of the LA gang the Crips.

He's got a great description of what it's like to be in a prison cell, and
challenges teens to lock themselves up in their bathroom for a day (you get
a toilet, sink, and a snack and not much else).

--Christine
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Christine Perkins, Director, Burlington Public Library
900 East Fairhaven Ave. Burlington, WA 98233
www.burlington.lib.wa.us | [removed]@burlington.lib.wa.us
(360) 755-0760

FROM: "Jamie Mayo" <[removed]@kclibrary.org>
REC'D: 12/1/04, 7:16 PM

You might take a look at
Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters
by Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution

Jamie Mayo
Kansas City Public Library
[removed]@kclibrary.org

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 12/2/04, 12:00 PM

At 08:15 AM 12/1/2004, you wrote:

>Hi. I have a coworker who is looking for prison testimony type
>books. They can be
>either fiction or nonfiction. <snip>

There have been several book-length studies/bibliographies of prisoner's
writings,
notably these by H. Bruce Franklin:

Title Prison writing in 20th century America / edited by H.
Bruce Franklin.
Published New York : Penguin Books, 1998.
Description xv, 368 p. ; 20 cm.
Other Title Prision writing in twentieth century America
Note Includes bibliographical references.
Subject LC Prisoner's writings, American.
Prisoners -- United States -- Literary collections.
Prisons -- United States -- Literary collections.
American literature -- 20th century.

Author Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce), 1934-
Title Prison literature in America : the victim as criminal and
artist / H. Bruce Franklin.
Edition Expanded ed.
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Description xxxii, 352 p. ; 21 cm.
Note Includes index.
Note Bibliography: p. 291-341.
Subject LC Prisoners' writings, American -- History and criticism.
Criminals' writings, American -- History and criticism.
Slaves' writings, American -- History and criticism.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and
criticism.
Criminals in literature.
Slavery in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Prisons in literature.
Victims in literature.
Canon (Literature)

<earlier edition in 1978 had title:
The victim as criminal and artist : literature from the American prison

Another recent anthology:
Title Doing time : 25 years of prison writing : a PEN American
Center Prize anthology / edited by Bell Gale Chevigny ; foreword by Helen
Prejean.
Edition 1st ed.
Published New York : Arcade Pub., c1999.
Description xxxii, 349 p. ; 25 cm.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 12/2/04, 12:17 PM

>Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:39:40 -0600
>To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>From: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
>Subject: Re: Prison testimony request
>
>At 08:15 AM 12/1/2004, you wrote:
>
>
>>Hi. I have a coworker who is looking for prison testimony type
>>books. They can be
>>either fiction or nonfiction. <snip>

My previous list accidentally dropped this one in the cut and paste:

Author Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce), 1934-
Title American prisoners and ex-prisoners, their writings : an
annotated bibliography of published works, 1798-1981 / H. Bruce Franklin.
Published Westport, Conn. : L. Hill, c1982.
Description vii, 53 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject LC Prisoners' writings, American -- Bibliography.
Prisons -- United States -- Bibliography.
Prisoners -- United States -- Biography -- Bibliography.
ISBN 0882081470 (pbk.) : $5.95
ISBN 0195053583 : $12.95

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: "Gainor, Larry" <[removed]@sjcd.edu>
REC'D: 12/2/04, 12:23 PM

A few more prison books

FICTION

Homeboy by Seth Morgan
In the Hat by Dannie Martin

NONFICTION

Monster by Sanyika Shakur

Along similar lines, "Newjack" by Ted Conover is an account of the
author's employment as a prison guard.

Larry Gainor
San Jacinto College South
(281) 484-1900 ext. 3307

FROM: Melissa Groveman <[removed]@gmail.com>
REC'D: 12/2/04, 2:26 PM

I don't know if this is what you meant by prison testimony, but "Alias
Grace" by Margaret Atwood comes to mind. It's a fictionalization of
the life of Grace Marks - Canada's answer to Lizzie Borden.

Melissa Groveman
Greene County Public Library
Xenia, OH

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:13:14 -0600, Gainor, Larry <[removed]@sjcd.edu> wrote:
> A few more prison books
>
> FICTION
>
> Homeboy by Seth Morgan
> In the Hat by Dannie Martin
>
> NONFICTION
>
> Monster by Sanyika Shakur
>
> Along similar lines, "Newjack" by Ted Conover is an account of the
> author's employment as a prison guard.
>
>
> Larry Gainor
> San Jacinto College South
> (281) 484-1900 ext. 3307
>
>
>
>
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FROM: "Marla" <[removed]@mtlib.org>
REC'D: 12/7/04, 4:22 PM

Thank you to all who responded to my request for prison testimony books. I'll pass
them on to my coworker; I'm sure she should find something to help....

Abbott, Jack Henry. Belly of the Beast.

Archer, Jeffrey. A Prison Diary.

Archer, Jeffrey. Purgatory.

Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace.

Behan, Brendan. Borstal Boy.

Caron, Roger. Go-Boy.

Chevigny, Bell Gale., ed. Doing Time.

Colson, Chuck. Born Again.

Colson, Chuck. Life Sentence.

Conlon, Gerry. In the Name of the Father.

Conover, Ted. Newjack.

Franklin, H. Bruce. American Prisoners & Ex-prisoners, Their Writings.

Franklin, H. Bruce. Prison Literature in America.

Franklin, H. Bruce, ed. Prison Writing in 20th Century America.

Gantos, Jack. A Hole in My Life.

Jackman, Tom. Rites of Burial.

Lamb, Wally, ed. Couldn't Keep It To Myself.

McCall, Nathan. Makes Me Wanna Holler.

Martin, Dannie. In the Hat.

Morgan, Seth. Homeboy.

Salzman, Mark. True Notebooks.

Shakur, Sanyika. Monster.

Williams, Stanley. Life in Prison.

Recommended website: books.prisonwall. org/

Thanks again! BYE!

Marla/Acquisitions
Great Falls Public Library
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls MT 59401-2593
[removed]@mtlib.org

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