prison memoir

Alcatraz bookstore
Postcard from the Alcatraz Bookshop
Unless you’ve been there, you might not know that Alcatraz, aka The Rock, has its very own bookstore, run by the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.
First-Known Prison Narrative by an African-American Writer Discovered at Yale’s Beinecke Library
New Haven, Conn.—Scholarly detective work has revealed that an 1858 manuscript, housed at Yale’s