Eyewitness on Alcatraz: True Stories of Families Who Lived on the Rock - Softcover

Babyak, Jolene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0961875208 ISBN 13: 9780961875206

Publisher: Ariel Vamp Press, 1988

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Lively, entertaining, informative, 136 pgs; 76 photos; Index
Jolene Babyak lived on Alcatraz Island twice while her father, Arthur M. Dollison, worked for nine years as an administrator and an associate warden. An essayist, feature-writer and book reviewer for many years, in Eyewitness on Alcatraz she's combined oral history techniques with solid research and lively writing. Revised in 1996, this book has sold more than 60,000 copies since it was published in 1988. Through interviews with more than 60 prison officers, family members and prisoners, she vividly recreates the daily life on the island both inside and out; she elicits startling comments from guards and prisoners and sheds new light on the island's famous escape attempts (including the Morris-Anglin attempt featured in the Clint Eastwood movie, "Escape from Alcatraz," which occurred while she lived there). Ms Babyak is a frequent guest author on Alcatraz. She is also the author of Bird Man, The Many Faces of Robert Stroud, published in 1994. "Others have attempted the history of the island prison; few offer the diversity of interviews and personal approach of this author. . ." Bookwatch

About this edition

• Publisher: Ariel Vamp Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0961875208
• ISBN 13: 9780961875206
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 127