Blood and Ink : An International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature

Albert Borowitz

ISBN 10: 0873386930 / ISBN 13: 9780873386937

Published by Kent State University Press Apr 2002, 2002

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Neuware - The interplay between crime fact and crime fiction can be detected back to literature's earliest beginnings. True crime has long been the basis of many plots of memorable literature - from Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''The Scarlet Letter'' to Jean Genet's play ''The Maids'', there has often been blood on the page. This guide to ''fact-based crime literature'' focuses on two principal groups of works: non-fictional accounts of crimes and criminal trials, including essays, monographs, journalism, editions of court transcripts, prison histories, and criminal and police biographies; and works of imaginative literature, such as novels, stories or stage works, based on or inspired by actual crimes or criminals.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood and Ink : An International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature
• Publisher: Kent State University Press Apr 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873386930
• ISBN 13: 9780873386937
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 245W x 168H x 42D millimeters 245 millimeters width by 168 millimeters height by 42 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1048 grams

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Synopsis

Albert Borowitz provides a guide to “fact-based crime literature” focusing on two principal groups of works: non-fictional accounts of crimes and criminal trials, including essays, monographs, journalism, editions of court transcripts, prison histories, and criminal and police biographies and memoirs; and works of imaginative literature, such as novels, stories, or stage works, based on or inspired by actual crimes or criminals. Blood and Ink, with forewords by Jacques Barzun and true-crime writer/historian Jonathan Goodman, will prove to be an invaluable resource to true-crime aficionados as well as to students and scholars of literature, cultural studies, and social history.

About the Author

Albert Borowitz is a graduate of Harvard University with a B.A. in classics, M.A. in Chinese regional studies, and a J.D. He is also the author of Terrorism for Self-Glorification: The Herostratos Syndrome (The Kent State University Press, 2005). He is a retired partner from the international law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue.