Creative artists who have served time in prison
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This page catalogs persons who are primarily known as creative artists -- musicians, visual artists, writers -- who have served time in prison.
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[edit] Musicians
- Gene Ammons
- Don Baker
- James Booker
- James Brown
- Bertrand Cantat
- Phil Driscoll
- Steve Earle
- Gary Glitter
- Lyfe Jennings
- Kimberly Denise Jones, a.k.a. Lil' Kim
- Hudy William Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly
- Inga Marchand, a.k.a. Foxy Brown
- Corey Miller, a.k.a. C-Murder
- Barry Adrian Reese, a.k.a. Cassidy
- Tupac Shakur
- Ike Turner
- Varg Vikernes
- Sid Vicious
- Scott Weiland
[edit] Visual Artists
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Gustave Courbet
- Richard Dadd
- Honoré Daumier
- Jacques-Louis David
- Max Ernst
- Nicholas Hilliard
- Lin Fengmian
- Egon Schiele
- John Trumbull
- Vann Nath
- Wang Du
[edit] Writers
- Brendan Behan
- Aphra Behn
- Joseph Brodsky
- John Bunyan
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Daniel Defoe
- John Donne
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Akbar Ganji
- Václav Havel
- Etheridge Knight
- Sir Thomas Malory
- John Milton
- Juan Carlos Onetti
- William Sydney Porter, a.k.a. O. Henry
- Irina Ratushinskaya
- Bertrand Russell
- Marquis de Sade
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- Voltaire
- Oscar Wilde
[edit] Footnotes
1. "Stefan Knapp: A Visionary Artist Who Worked In Enamel." in Glass on Metal: The Enamelists Magazine. Volume 18, Number 3, October 1999.
2. Htein Lin. "From a Burmese Prison, a Chronicle of Pain in Paint" New York Times, August 12, 2007.
