| LC control no. | no2008016437 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wallace, Herman |
| Birth date | 19411013 |
| Death date | 20131004 |
| Place of birth | New Orleans (La.) |
| Place of death | New Orleans (La.) |
| Affiliation | Louisiana State Penitentiary |
| Profession or occupation | Prisoner |
| Found in | House that Herman built, 2006: t.p. (Herman Wallace) New York times (online), viewed Oct. 18, 2013 (in obituary published Oct. 4: Herman Wallace; b. Oct. 13, 1941, New Orleans; d. there Friday morning [Oct. 4, 2013], aged 71; his world for much of the last 41 years had been a solitary prison cell, 6 feet by 9 feet, when he left a Louisiana prison on Tuesday, freed by a federal judge who ruled that his original indictment in the killing of a prison guard had been unconstitutional; gained further attention for a project that he embarked on with Jackie Sumell, an artist who had struck up a correspondence with him and asked him to describe his "dream house"; a documentary film about the project, Herman's house, was shown on PBS in July) |
| Associated language | eng |
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