Unveiling the Dark Secrets Behind John J Lennon’s The Tragedy of True Crime: A Must-Read Review
Lennon also uses the prologue to give his own backstory. As a 24-year-old drug dealer in Brooklyn, he shot a man and was convicted and sentenced to 28 years to life in prison. He traces his early days in New York state prisons — first at the infamous Rikers Island, then Sing Sing, then on to the Clinton Correctional Facility, and eventually to Attica, the site of the legendary 1971 prison riot.
While at Attica, Lennon gets sober and takes a creative writing class. Falling in love with writing, he polishes his craft, landing his first published story in The Atlantic. Credits in The New York Times, The Marshall Project, The New York Review of Books, and Esquire followed, establishing him as a prison journalist.
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