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New York Times bestselling author Damien Echols and his wife Lorri Davis reveal their intimate and affecting letters, written while Echols was wrongfully imprisoned on death row. An explosive bestseller, Life After Death turned a national spotlight on Damien Echols, who was just eighteen when he was wrongly condemned to death. But one of the most remarkable parts of his story still remained untold. After seeing a documentary about the “West Memphis Three,” Lorri Davis—a New Yorkbased landscape architect—wrote him a letter, beginning a thirteen-year correspondence that witnessed their marriage while Echols was still on death row and culminated in Echols’ release in 2011. Sharing their private letters, Yours for Eternity is a must-read for the legions who followed the case as well as anyone who appreciates an extraordinary love story.
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“Both a universal and a wildly unconventional love story told through letters…Focused on their highly idealized feelings for each other, the letters also provide insights into Davis’s background and personality, the overwhelming difficulties of overturning such a conviction, and the frustrations of nurturing a relationship under the conditions of incarceration. The missives tend to be short, intimate, and poetically written…Recommended for its vivid portrayal of an extraordinarily successful prison romance.”
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“Reconstructed from thousands of letters the pair exchanged over sixteen years, this tender and unusual narrative offers a rare, courageously intimate view of a love that should never have survived and yet did.”
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Damien Echols grew up in Mississippi, Tennessee, Maryland, Oregon, and Arkansas. At age eighteen, he was arrested along with Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelley and charged with the deaths of three boys, now known as the Robin Hood Hill murders, in West Memphis, Arkansas. He received a death sentence and spent almost eighteen years on Death Row, until he, Baldwin, and Misskelley were released in 2011. The West Memphis Three have been the subject of Paradise Lost, a three-part documentary series produced by HBO, and West of Memphis, a documentary produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. Echols is the author of a self-published memoir titled Almost Home. He and his wife live in New York City.
Lorri Davis fell in love with Damien Echols just months after initiating a correspondence with him during his eighteen year wrongful imprisonment on death row. They were married in 1999, and largely due to Lorri’s efforts, Damien was released from prison in 2011. They live together in Salem, Massachusetts.