Essay:Prison and Influential Work

Perhaps the most influential work in history has been written by someone while in prison. There are few distractions and the pen is mightier than the sword. Please add to these examples:

much of the New Testament, including letters from Paul and Peter, and perhaps a Gospel^[1]
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan while in jail for religious persecution
Rev. Martin Luther King's letter ^[2] from a Birmingham jail
Jean-Victor Poncelet's advances in projective geometry as a prisoner-of-war in Russia
Mein Kampf, a horrific, influential work written by Adolf Hitler while in jail

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↑ The Gospel of John was written while John was in exile. Other Gospels, such as Matthew's, may also have been written from prison.
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[1] The Gospel of John was written while John was in exile. Other Gospels, such as Matthew's, may also have been written from prison.

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Essay:Prison and Influential Work

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