Amanda Knox with Christopher Robinson
Amanda Knox is an exoneree, journalist, public speaker, and author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Waiting to Be Heard (HarperCollins, April 2013). Between 2007 and 2015, she spent nearly four years in an Italian prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit. Amanda hosted of The Scarlet Letter Reports, a VICE/Facebook series about the public vilification of women, and currently hosts The Truth About True Crime, a podcast series for Sundance/AMC that she produces and writes with Christopher.
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Christopher Robinson is a Boston University and Hunter College MFA graduate, a MacDowell Colony fellow, Yaddo fellow, and a Yale Younger Poets Prize finalist. He is the co-author, with Gavin Kovite, of War of the Encylopaedists (Scribner, 2015), which the New York Times called "captivating," and Deliver Us (Alephactory, 2018). He currently produces and writes The Truth About True Crime with Amanda.
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Chris and I got married on February 29th, 2020—just in
time, it seems. Only two of our guests cancelled at the last minute for fear of
travel due to the coronavirus. This was before Governor Inslee called for the
cancellation of any event with over fifty participants. Now, just two weeks
later, Chris and I are grateful that we’ve only had to cancel our honeymoon. We
were planning on travelling to Germany to visit Jens Soering who, after 33
years wrongfully imprisoned, has reentered the world at a very strange time. We
were hoping to write about meeting him in person for the first time, after
months...
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