New York Times bestselling author Damien Echols and his wife Lorri Davis reveal their intimate and affecting letters, written while Echols was wrongfully imprisoned on death row. An explosive bestseller,
Life After Death turned a national spotlight on Damien Echols, who was just eighteen when he was wrongly condemned to death. But one of the most remarkable parts of his story still remained untold. After seeing a documentary about the "West Memphis Three," Lorri Davis--a New Yorkbased landscape architect--wrote him a letter, beginning a thirteen-year correspondence that witnessed their marriage while Echols was still on death row and culminated in Echols' release in 2011. Sharing their private letters,
Yours for Eternity is a must-read for the legions who followed the case as well as anyone who appreciates an extraordinary love story.
Author: Damien Echols, Lorri Davis
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 05/26/2015
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780147516220
About the AuthorDamien Echols was born in 1974 and grew up in Mississippi, Tennessee, Maryland, Oregon, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. At age eighteen he was wrongfully convicted of murder, along with Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelley, Jr. Echols received a death sentence and spent almost eighteen years on Death Row, until he, Baldwin, and Misskelley were released in 2011. The West Memphis Three have been the subject of
Paradise Lost, a three-part documentary series produced by HBO, and
West of Memphis, a documentary produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. Echols is also the author of
High Magic: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row and
Life After Death. While in prison, Damien was ordained into the Rinzai Zen Buddhist tradition. Today he teaches classes on magick around the country and works as a visual artist. He and his wife Lorri live in New York City with their three cats.