What important texts were written while in jail?

Prison Epistles (St. Paul): In 62 AD, St. Paul the Apostle was arrested in Jerusalem for his passionate sermons on behalf of Christianity that enraged the local Jewish population. He was taken to the nearby town of Caesarea and imprisoned there for two years. During this time, St. read more

While confined for a year in the Fleet debtors' prison in the 1740s, Cleland composed this peculiarly literary work of pornography, which is full of sex but has no rude words. Perhaps the intensity with which its scenes are imagined might have had something to do with its author's enforced chastity. read more

Shortly after King’s arrest, a friend smuggled in a copy of an April 12 Birmingham newspaper which included an open letter, written by eight local Christian and Jewish religious leaders, which criticized both the demonstrations and King himself, whom they considered an outside agitator. read more

10 Great Works of Literature Written in Prison Books | By Heba Hasan | August 14, 2012 When we imagine the places where our favorite authors penned their greatest masterpieces, a jail cell usually doesn’t come to mind. read more