{"product_id":"my-life-in-prison-heathen-edition-paperback","title":"My Life in Prison (Heathen Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald Lowrie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Donald Lowrie\u003c\/strong\u003e (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 \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Life in Prison\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e was birthed to overnight success, kickstarting the American prison literature genre and instigating nationwide prison reforms still in effect today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe Heathens have striven to enhance the text that you're about to experience as much as possible, with the first enhancement being the inclusion of \u003cstrong\u003eDonald Lowrie's original San Quentin mugshots\u003c\/strong\u003e. We have also corrected myriad spelling and punctuation errors, in addition to updating a few archaic and hyphenated words to reflect their modern usage. Additionally, \u003cstrong\u003ewe have added some 250 footnotes\u003c\/strong\u003e with further corrections and to supplement the text with context, clarification, and commentary as needed. We've also added section breaks in some of the chapters to help with Lowrie's sometimes jarring tendency to switch topics without warning. We were also able to locate \u003cstrong\u003eseveral photos of San Quentin\u003c\/strong\u003e approximate to the period of Lowrie's incarceration, \u003cstrong\u003ecirca 1890s-1910s\u003c\/strong\u003e, which we have included where appropriate. And, in addition to Lowrie's mugshots, we were able to locate \u003cstrong\u003enearly two dozen more mugshots\u003c\/strong\u003e of inmates who populate this story, which we have placed where they seem most appropriate within the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 450\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486246420733,"sku":"9781948316224","price":29.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/WmtTTm5abDZXTlNlcXhCZGFjZnFOQT09.webp?v=1777726363","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/my-life-in-prison-heathen-edition-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}