Photo Credit:
Photo credit
Margaret McPhee
Ken Klonsky
BIO
Biography

Ken Klonsky is the Director of Innocence International, an innocence project representing wrongly convicted people. A friend and colleague of the late Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the innocence work has shifted his writing career for the past ten years. He is the author of "Life Without" (Quattro Books, 2013), a novella about a wrongly convicted New York City cab driver, co-author (with Dr. Carter)  of "Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom" (Chicago Review Press, 2011) and "Freeing David McCallum: the Last Miracle of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (Chicago Review Press, 2017). Previously, he wrote a suite of short stories, "Songs of Aging Children (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1992), and a play with the late Brian Shein, "Taking Steam", 1983.

ADDRESS
City: Vancouver, Province/Territory: British Columbia
EMAIL
GENRE
Non-fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Liberty Award for Excellence in the Arts
Name
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
Publication
Freeing David McCallum: the Last Miracle of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Year
2018
Programs & Interests
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