The story of Frank Ross, a journalist who is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison where he forms a friendship with a notorious gangster named ‘Hood’ Stacey, who helps him escape. “Prison novels come and go, but here is one which will linger in one’s memory due to atmosphere which has been conveyed with such convincing reality that one sees imaginary bars across each window after reading it.” —Nashville Tennesean “Prison novels come and go, but here is one which will linger in one’s memory due to atmosphere which has been conveyed with such convincing reality that one sees imaginary bars across each window after reading it.” —Nashville Tennesean “This is a vigorous and exciting novel—but like all novels of prison life, full of brutality and ugliness.” —Sacramento Bee “’Each Dawn I Die’ is no ordinary prison yarn, even though the climaxes crash with terrifying impact.” —Midland Review Jerome Odlum was born August 6, 1905 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He served a term in Stillwater Prison for forgery, and after an aborted parole, was released on August 25, 1935. He then proceeded to pitch a novel based on his prison experiences to Bobbs-Merrill, who published the work as Each Dawn I Die in 1938 (filmed the next year with James Cagney and George Raft). Odlum became a screenwriter, under contract to Paramount, and wrote several more novels and film screenplays. With his habit of writing bad checks, he continued to run afoul of the law, and spent more time in prison in the 1940s. He died of a stroke on March 2, 1954, at his home in Los Angeles, California.