Charts & Graphs

Killing Time

Books written in prison.

Who What Where When (Publication)
Boethius Consolation of Philosophy Pavia 524
Thomas Malory Le Morte Darthur Newgate and Marshalsea Prisons 1470
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Crow Jail of Seville 1605
John Bunyan The Pilgrim’s Progress South Bedfordshire County Gaol 1678
Marquis de Sade Justine The Bastille 1791
Oscar Wilde De Profundis Reading Gaol 1905
Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf Landsberg Prison 1925
Mohandas K. Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments in Truth Yeravda Central Prison 1940
Antonio Gramsci Prison Notebooks Regina Coeli 1947
Ezra Pound Pisan Cantos U.S. Army Disciplinary Training Center, Metato 1948
Eldridge Cleaver Soul on Ice San Quentin and Folsom Prisons 1968
Ngugi wa Thiong’o Devil on the Cross Kamiti Maximum Security Prison 1982
Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom Robben Island, Pollsmoor Prison 1994