Mistaken Identity: A Semiautobiographical Novel

New York: Vantage Press, [1976]. Revised Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; [10],118pp. Fine. Autobiographical novel based on the author's experience as a young born-again middle class black man arrested for the rape of a white woman. Tortured into signing a confession, Walden (as well as his fictional counterpart) was sentenced to 75 years in prison, 14 of which he served.