Fellow Inmate Pens Book on Amanda Knox's Life in Prison
The Amanda Knox case is certainly helping to revive the flagging book-publishing industry. Recently we interviewed a local author of a book largely sympathetic to the 23-year-old former UW student serving time in an Italian prison for the 2007 murder of one of her flatmates in Perugia, Italy.
Now the Daily Beast has word of a new book by one of Knox's companions in Capanne prison, a 58-year-old Brazilian woman who served time on drug charges, offers a glimpse into Knox's daily life in prison.
Florisbela Inocencio de Jesus self-published her work, Passeggiando con Amanda (which translates to "Walking With Amanda").
De Jesus tells the Daily Beast that Knox was polite and friendly upon her arrival, but withdrew and looked more aged as the trial progressed, then finally fit in among fellow prisoners. The author shares mundane daily details of Knox's prison life and tidbits like other inmates' fondness for gossiping about her supposed promiscuity.
According to a Newsweek report out today (but the same woman who authored the Daily Beast piece) prison guards say Knox now spends her days reading and laying low as she prepares to appeal her murder conviction this fall. The article also notes that well-meaning Americans who claim Knox's innocence and impugn the Italian justice system are actually doing more harm than good. Such claims receive snide and unfavorable treatment in Italian press, according to the article, and reinforce the stereotype of snotty, self-congratulatory Americans.
Yet another book about Knox's imprisonment is due out in Italy this fall.


