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A Writer in Prison
de Ford, Miriam Allen | February 6, 1929 issue

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The article presents information on the book "Grimhaven," by Robert Joyce Tasker. "Grimhaven" is not so much the description of a given environment as it is a mental autobiography. In a work so deeply personal, the actual material background becomes incidental; nevertheless, it is richly and startlingly portrayed. He has made visible the strange secret world of San Quentin-from the chaotic, confused impressions which he himself received at first to the painful, detailed description of his immediate surroundings with which the book ends. Incorporated in the book is a chapter on the dungeons, written by Jo Mackin, whom Tasker calls "Jockey."

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GRIMHAVEN (Book); TASKER, Robert Joyce; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; PRISONS; AUTHORS; MACKIN, Jo
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