When You Read This They Will Have Killed Me

When Caryl Chessman appeared on the cover of "Time's" March 21, 1960, issue, he was the most famous prisoner in America and arguably the best-known in the world. Through access to the papers and letters of his attorneys, unpublished manuscripts held by Joseph Longstreth, and reminiscences with those who knew him, the first definitive portrait of the enigmatic Caryl Chessman emerges.