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Anthony Ross

Introduction

Anthony Ross was raised in South Central Los Angeles. At age 12 he became member of the Crips gang. He has been incarcerated for 24 years and on death row for 23. While in solitary confinement he shed his gang mentality and began to read and study intensively: History, psychology, political science, mythology, metaphysics, and comparative religion, for which he earned a degree. After ten years in the maximum security unit (San Quentin Adjustment Center) he emerged with self-awareness and critical thinking. He became a writer and in 1996 won the PEN Prison Writing Award for best short fiction. He has been published in several books and periodicals and appears in the anthology Children of the Dream: Growing Up Black in America . Presently he is writing his memoirs: The Road To Purgatory and co-authoring a book on self-transformation in prison with Stanley Tookie Williams and Steve Champion. They have recently completed a book of aphorisms entitled Sacred Eye of the Falcon, which is due out next fall. For more information contact him at the address below.

Address:

Anthony Ross
C-58000
San Quentin State Prison
San Quentin, California 94974
USA

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