High on vodka and crack, Curtis Dawkins shot a stranger dead. Sentenced to life in prison, he went back to his first love – writing. He tells Chris McGreal about his controversial new book
The one story Curtis Dawkins is not permitted to write is his own. Of how he dressed up as a leprechaun, got out of his mind on crack and vodka and went out with a gun on to the streets of Kalamazoo, Michigan. By the time a police Swat team captured him, Dawkins had killed one man and taken another hostage.
“I didn’t think from the beginning: ‘I’m going to get back to writing.’” he says. “First I was just paying attention. I looked at the people around me and I imagined their stories.”
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