Education of a Felon

“A masterful summation of the hard and brutal life of crime and prison from . . . America’s foremost chronicler of prison life.” — Los Angeles Times In Education of a Felon , the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was—at seventeen—the youngest inmate ever in San Quentin. His hard-won experiences on L.A.’s meanest streets and in and out of prison gave him the material t