![]() ![]() : 71 Early life Ībbott was born on January 21, 1944, at Camp Skeel in Oscoda, Michigan, to an Irish-American soldier and a Chinese-American prostitute. He wrote that because of confinement with other violent offenders from whom he could not escape, he developed a subjective perspective that every encounter was potentially threatening. Abbott was convicted and sent back to prison, where he killed himself in 2002.Ībbott described his life as being a "state-raised convict", spending much of his life since age 12 in confinement in state facilities, including solitary confinement. Six weeks after being paroled from prison, Abbott stabbed and killed a waiter outside a New York City cafe. Abbott's memoir In the Belly of the Beast was published with positive reviews soon after his release. ![]() Due partly to lobbying by Mailer and others on Abbott's behalf, Abbott was released from prison in 1981 where he was serving sentences for forgery, manslaughter, and bank robbery. With a long history of criminal convictions, Abbott's writing concerning his life and experiences was lauded by a number of well-known literary critics, including author Norman Mailer. Jack Henry Abbott (Janu– February 10, 2002) was an American criminal and author. ![]()
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