George Thompson, one of the most prolific writers of sensational pamphlet fiction in antebellum America, tells his own story: a hard boyhood, apprenticeship as a printer, a bloody tragedy on William Street, a fatal affray, flight and wandering, and chivalrous rescues of ladies in distress. The line between fact and fiction is never quite clear.
A rare self-portrait from the underground of American popular literature, for readers of city-mysteries fiction. Download the free EPUB.