John Kiriamiti (born 14 February 1950) is a Kenyan former bank robber^[1] turned writer.^[2] Born in Thuita Village,^[3] Kamacharia Location of Murang'a District in Central Kenya, he is the second of the nine children of Albert and Anne Wanjiru Kiriamiti, both primary school teachers in Murang'a.^[3]

Background

Kiriamiti is best known as the writer of My Life in Crime^[4] and My Life with a Criminal: Milly's Story, which were both a sensation with Kenyan youth in the late 1980s and '90s.

In the years subsequent to his release from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, he has also become a renowned philanthropist and social reformist rehabilitating street children and thieves in his rural Murang'a home. Besides writing novels, Kiriamiti owns and edits a newspaper, The Sharpener, which he established after the government ban on the Gikuyu version, Inooro, in 1995.^[5]

Bibliography

Kiriamiti's books include:

• My Life in Crime – 1980
• My Life with a Criminal: Milly's Story- 1984
• Son of Fate – 1994
• The Sinister Trophy – 2000
• My Life in Prison – 2004
• The Abduction Squad
• City Carjackers

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