True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall by Mark Salzman

True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

Mark Salzman

352 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction education memoir reflective slow-paced
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In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and...

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