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Autobiography:
I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang
(1932)
by Robert Elliott Burns

Film Adaptation:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang (1932)

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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang (Autobiography)

Published: 1932

Author: Robert Elliott Burns

Author Born: May 10, 1892 • Palisades, NJ

Author Died: Jun. 5, 1955

Film Adaptation: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Film Released: 1932

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang (Autobiography) Overview:

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang is a book written by Robert Elliott Burns in 1932 and published by Grosset & Dunlap.

The book tells the story of Burns' imprisonment on a chain gang in Georgia in the 1920s, his subsequent escape and the furor that developed. The story was first published in January 1932 in True Detective Mysteries magazine.[1] It was made into a motion picture I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, starring Paul Muni. The book and movie were both credited with helping to reform deplorable conditions on Deep South chain gangs, by Governor Ellis Arnall in 1943.

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