John Kiriamiti (born 14 February 1950[citation needed]) is a Kenyan former bank robber[1] turned writer.[2] Kiriamiti is best known as the writer of My Life in Crime[3] and My Life with a Criminal: Milly's Story, which were both a sensation among Kenyan youth in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Kiriamiti was born in Thuita Village,[4] Kamacharia, Murang'a District, in Central Kenya. He is the second of the nine children of Albert and Anne Wanjiru Kiriamiti, both primary school teachers in Murang'a.[4]
In the years after his release from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, he has also become a philanthropist and social reformist rehabilitating street children and thieves in Murang'a. Besides writing novels, Kiriamiti owns and edits a newspaper, The Sharpener, which he established after the government ban on the Gikuyu version, Inooro, in 1995.[5]
Kiriamiti's books include:
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