Put Your Pistol Down and Pick Up a Pen: The Story of a Teacher, a Tagger, and a Twenty-Two-Year Prison Sentence

by Dennis Danziger and John Rodriguez

Put Down Your Pistol and Pick Up a Pen, The Story of a Teacher, a Tagger, and a 22-Year Prison Sentence is a co-authored memoir that follows the unusual friendship of John Rodriguez, a 17-year old tagger, and Dennis Danziger, his high school English teacher. When the teacher realizes that this tagger is a writing savant, he encourages him to pursue a college education. But that spring, John is involved in a bar fight that turns violent and is sentenced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949024644
• ISBN13: 9781949024647
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Fayetteville Mafia Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"