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100	1		_aChapin, Charles E., _d1858-1930
245	1	0	_aCharles Chapin's story
246	1		_aCharles E. Chapin's story : Written in Sing Sing Prison
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-04-25
505	0		_aFrom the bottom -- Barnstorming -- Chicago "Tribune" days -- My first big "scoop" -- A murder mystery -- "Star" reporting -- A city editor at twenty-five -- Breaking into Park Row -- On the "World's" city desk -- Newspapering to-day -- The Pulitzers -- Newspaper ethics -- Gathering clouds -- Tragedy -- A "lifer" in Sing Sing.
508			_aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520			_a"Charles Chapin's Story" by Charles E. Chapin is a memoir written in the early 20th century. Composed in prison, it traces a prominent newspaper editor’s climb through American journalism, his headline-making scoops, the culture of big-city newsrooms, and the personal breakdown that led to tragedy and lifelong confinement. The opening of this memoir sets the frame: a publisher’s note recounts the killing of Chapin’s wife, his own letter describing a nervous collapse and intended suicide-murder, and his subsequent surrender. In an Introduction, Basil King describes meeting him at Sing Sing, argues that prisoners remain fully human, condemns society’s need for a “scapegoat,” and notes the author’s inward transformation. In “Why This Book Was Written,” the writer explains the monotony, sleeplessness, and grief of prison life, his failed attempts at immersion in books, and how a friend’s prodding—and examples from great authors who wrote in confinement—led him to rebuild himself through writing and to edit the Sing Sing Bulletin under a reform-minded warden. The narrative then turns to his beginnings: a fourteen-year-old paper boy who became a telegraph messenger, self-educated through voracious reading, and skilled in telegraphy, printing, and shorthand; an early courtroom-reporting humiliation is offset by his first published sketch. A detour into barnstorming theater follows—frontier tours, Deadwood episodes, and a sudden marriage to Nellie—before he returns to news, joining the Chicago Tribune and rising fast. He sketches newsroom leaders and colleagues and recounts signature exploits, including the origin of “The public be damned,” the audacious lake-borne pursuit of an escaping Chicago boodler, and an exclusive rescue tale from a shipwreck survivor—all establishing the tone and scope of the story to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1920
653			_aJournalism -- United States
653			_aChapin, Charles E., 1858-1930
653			_aMurderers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
700	1		_aKing, Basil, _d1859-1928
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/charleschapinsst00chapiala/page/n8/mode/1up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78544
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