“Was it a novel? Was it a memoir?” An expert in prison literature, Smith felt sure that the book was written by someone with firsthand knowledge of 19th-century correctional facilitie ...

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Doran Larson, PhD, Edward North Professor of Literature at Hamilton College. Larson taught creative writing for 10 years inside Attica Correctional Facility and is founder and director of the American ...