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Shelfari edited the description of Education of a Felon: A Memoir Monday, August 3 2009.

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 Berkley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever in St. 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 killer, from Hollywood's seamy underside 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 led. AUTHORBIO: EDWARD BUNKER'S novels No Beast So Fierce and Animal Factory were made into the movies Straight Time with Dustin Hoffman and Animal Factory with Edward Furlong.Bunker played Mr. Blue in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and was a cowriter of the screenplay for Runaway Train.Education of a Felon is his first nonfiction book.He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

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IN MARCH OF 1933, Southern California suddenly began to rock and roll to a sound from deep within the ground.

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