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Malcolm Braly

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: July 24 1925

Died: 0606 04 19801980

Abandoned by his parents, Braly lived between foster homes and institutions for delinquent children, and by the time he was forty had spent nearly seventeen years in prison for burglary, serving time at Nevada State Prison, San Quentin, and Folsom State Prison. He wrote three novels behind bars, Felony Tank , Shake Him Till He Rattles , and It’s Cold Out There , and upon his release in 1965 began to work on On the Yard. When prison authorities learned of the book they threatened to revoke his parole, and he was forced to complete it in secret. Published in 1967, after Braly’s parole had expired, On the Yard received wide acclaim. It was followed by his autobiography, False Starts: A Memoir of San Quentin and Other Prisons , and a final work of fiction, The Protector . Malcolm Braly enjoyed fifteen years of freedom before his death in a car accident at age fifty-four.

Malcolm Braly

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: July 24 1925

Died: 0606 04 19801980

Abandoned by his parents, Braly lived between foster homes and institutions for delinquent children, and by the time he was forty had spent nearly seventeen years in prison for burglary, serving time at Nevada State Prison, San Quentin, and Folsom State Prison. He wrote three novels behind bars, Felony Tank , Shake Him Till He Rattles , and It’s Cold Out There , and upon his release in 1965 began to work on On the Yard. When prison authorities learned of the book they threatened to revoke his parole, and he was forced to complete it in secret. Published in 1967, after Braly’s parole had expired, On the Yard received wide acclaim. It was followed by his autobiography, False Starts: A Memoir of San Quentin and Other Prisons , and a final work of fiction, The Protector . Malcolm Braly enjoyed fifteen years of freedom before his death in a car accident at age fifty-four.

Books from Malcolm Braly

On the Yard

False Starts: A Memoir of San Quentin and Other Prisons

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Shake Him Till He Rattles & It's Cold Out There

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Felony Tank

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Bad Moon Rising: An Anthology of Political Forebodings

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Shake Him Till He Rattles / It's Cold Out There / Felony Tank

The Protector