Macbeth for Murderers

Macbeth for Murderers is a true story of how lives collide behind the walls of the Maximum Security Prison. The inmates include Rashid, a street-smart drug dealer; Jorge, a bitter man convicted of murder; Tommy, a modern-day Sundance Kid; William, rapist and murderer; and Jim, a murderer at nineteen. Fate, Shakespeare and two unlikely teachers, peel away their hard-core exteriors and reveal the men behind their violent crimes. Some will deserve a second chance, and some won’t. Roberta Davidson, an English Professor from the Ivy League, and John Kerwin, a television producer turned teacher, mingle in the sub-culture of the incarcerated, and their experiences provide a unique and truthful view of modern-day prison life.

Author Biography

John Kerwin, a television and film producer, director and writer, left Los Angeles to fulfill to pursue a second career in writing. He found the Pacific Northwest to be the ideal environment and lifestyle for that pursuit, and his experiences in Walla Walla resulted in Macbeth for Murderers. Roberta Davidson is Chair of the English Department of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She has taught Medieval and Renaissance literature there for the last seventeen years, and, at the same time, taught part-time at WSP for five years. She and her co-author John Kerwin were recently married.