Chester Gillette was executed on March 30, 1908, for the murder of Grace Brown, who was pregnant with his child. The trial was a sensation at the time and the case became the basis for Theodore Dreiser's classic novel An American Tragedy, the 1951 Academy award-winning movie A Place in the Sun, and a 2006 opera. Revealed here, for the first time in nearly a century, are Chester's private thoughts in his final months.
Content Note
Reflections / by Marlynn McWade-Murray -- The brief life of Chester Gillette / by Craig Brandon -- Chester's diary and letters / by Jack Sherman -- Central characters -- Editorial note -- Diary of Chester Gillette -- Prison letters of Chester Gillette.