He was denied parole in August and would not have been eligible again until June 2003. Mailer supported Abbott's parole, but six weeks after Abbott was released in 1981, he stabbed a 22-year-old aspiring actor outside a New York City restaurant.Ībbott was sentenced to 15 years to life for manslaughter in the man's death. Flateau would not disclose the contents of the note.Ībbott, who was 58, gained fame from writing "In the Belly of the Beast," a best-seller composed of letters he wrote to author Norman Mailer from prison between 19.ĭuring those years, Abbott was behind bars first for bank robbery and then for fatally stabbing another inmate. He hanged himself with a bedsheet and a shoe lace and left a suicide note, Flateau said. Jack Henry Abbott, whose prison writings became the best-selling book "In the Belly of the Beast," hanged himself in his cell Sunday, officials said.Ībbott was found dead Sunday morning in his single cell at Wende Correctional Facility, said to Jim Flateau, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections.
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