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Letters from prison

Letters from prison

Posted Apr 29, 2008 2:13 UTC (Tue) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027)
In reply to: Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired) by joey
Parent article: Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired)

History is full of people who wrote letters and essays and literature in prison.

Jawaharlal Nehru's letters to his daughter Indira Gandhi, Glimpses of World History (1936), are another example.


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Letters from prison

Posted Apr 29, 2008 7:28 UTC (Tue) by patrick_g (subscriber, #44470) [Link]

Or André Weil work :

"Among his major accomplishments were the 1940 proof, while in prison, of the Riemann hypothesis for local zeta-functions, and his subsequent laying of proper foundations for algebraic geometry to support that result"

(From Wikipedia).

Writing in prison

Posted Apr 29, 2008 11:12 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Or the greatest work in Spanish literature: Don Quijote de la Mancha.

Letters from prison

Posted Apr 29, 2008 15:14 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

History is full of people who wrote letters and essays and literature in prison
Case in point: several books in the New Testament were written from prison.

Letters from prison

Posted May 2, 2008 12:53 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

Yes, but so was Mein Kampf.

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