John
Kiriamiti

John Kiriamiti, a former crook-turned-novelist, wrote My Life in Crime while doing time at Naivasha Maximum Security Prison where he was
‘cooling porridge’ for a series of bank robberies that rocked 1960s and 1970s Kenya. Kiriamiti is best known as the writer of My Life in Crime
and My Life with a Criminal: Milly’s Story, which were both a sensation with Kenyan youth in the late 1980s and ’90s. (from African Books Collective)