Siobhan Dowd
Siobhan Dowd is a journalist who has worked on the PEN human-rights campaign since 1984. She lives in New York City.
— From October 1996
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
This Prison Where I Live
When the door has been slammed behind him for the first time, the prisoner stands in the middle of the cell and looks round. I fancy that everyone must behave in more or less the same way.
October 1996
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