In E ducation of a Felon , the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story.
From smoking a joint in the gas chamber to leaving fingerprints on a knife connec.
His hard-won experiences on L.
A.\'s meanest streets and in and out of prison gave him the material to write some of the grittiest and most affecting novels of our time.
The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever in San Quentin.
In E ducation of a Felon , the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story