James Ray Renton—thief, counterfeiter, and bank robber—became
one of America’s Ten Most Wanted Men when he was charged with
murdering a young Arkansas policeman in 1976. After a daring escape
from the Tucker Maximum Security Unit in the 1980s, Renton made the
FBI’s Fifteen Most Wanted List before eventually being recaptured.
Then, while in solitary confinement, Renton wrote a 60-page account
of his escape and adventures, sent in a series of letters to Danny
Lyon, a close friend of Renton’s since they had met in the Texas
prison system in 1967.
After Renton’s death in 1995, Lyon visited the Arkansas town
where Renton had been convicted. Following an incredible paper
trail left behind by the crime and 1978 trial in which Lyon had
testified, Lyon located Dinker Cassel, who was sentenced to life
along with Renton for the murder. Like a Thief’s Dream is Lyon’s
gripping story of two men—one alive, the other dead—and an
unparalleled portrayal of prison life in the 1980s and 1990s. A
tale of murder and betrayal, romance and robbery, Like a Thief’s
Dream is Lyon’s first work of non-fiction in text form, a work of
realism based almost entirely on documents including police and FBA
records, prison and police mug shots, tape recordings made by the
FBI and the author, Renton’s own written account of his escape,
letters from other prisoners to the author and to each other, and
photographs made by Lyon and anonymous police photographers.
關於作者：
Danny Lyon was born in Brooklyn. While studying history at the
University of Chicago, Lyon joined the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee as their first staff photographer. One of
the best-known photojournalists today, Lyon has produced eleven
books of photography and twelve nonfiction films. His books include
Indian Nations Twin Palms, 2002, Knave of Hearts Twin Palms,
1999, a memoir, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
University of North Carolina, 1992, Merci Gonaives Bleak Beauty,
1988, an account of the 1986 Haitian revolution, and Conversations
with the Dead Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, the first book by
a photojournalist inside the American prison system. Lyon recently
republished his second book, the acclaimed The Destruction of Lower
Manhattan, with powerHouse Books. He has received a Rockefeller
Fellowship in filmmaking, Guggenheim fellowships for photography
and filmmaking, and numerous fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Arts. His photographs are in the collections of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art,
and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of
Chicago; the Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Library of Congress,
Washington, DC; as well as other museums throughout the world. Lyon
lives in Ulster County, New York and Sandoval County, New
Mexico.
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