Creative artists who have served time in prison
- Creative artists who have served time in prison
This page catalogs persons who are primarily known as creative artists -- musicians, visual artists, writers -- who have served time in prison.
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
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
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
Footnotes
1. " [http://www.glass-on-metal.com/pastart/stefan_knapp.htm 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. " [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/13/world/asia/13prisoners.html?ex=1346040000&en=eea525505f6055ad&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink From a Burmese Prison, a Chronicle of Pain in Paint] " New York Times, August 12, 2007.
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