Education of a Felon: A Memoir

Edward Bunker

Mar 2000 · Sold by St. Martin's Press

About this ebook

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 to write some of the grittiest and most affecting novels of our time.
From smoking a joint in the gas chamber to leaving fingerprints on a knife connected to a serial kiler, from Hollywood's steamy undersde to swimming in the Neptune pool at San Simeon, Bunker delivers a memoir as colorful as any of his novels and as compelling as the life he's lead.

Ratings and reviews

One of the best, most interesting books i have ever had the pleasure of reading. I will read it over and over again. Have recommended it to all of my friends.

Sad just found out he passed in 05 first book I've read of his but won't be the last.

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"Bunker shoots straight--his direct and transparent prose captures the primacy of violence that defines life in the slammer...Bunker clearly articulates the code of prison life and the pathology of the career criminal in raw, muscular prose."--Kirkus Reviews

"The best first-person crime novel I've ever read."--Quentin Tarantino on NO BEAST SO FIERCE