Birdman of Alcatraz

Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1955 book by Thomas E. Gaddis. RoguesBook catalogs the work in its Prisons / escapes / undercover collection. The record represents the work itself rather than a particular paperback, hardcover, ebook or reprint, so ISBNs and editions can be attached without creating duplicate public pages.

Within RoguesBook, this title sits in a research path covering prisons, escapes, incarceration, informants and undercover investigations. This shelf helps connect criminal biographies to the institutions, prison systems and covert investigations that shaped what happened next. The purpose of the page is to make the book useful inside the wider crime-history graph: a reader can move from a book to the real people, organizations, prisons, cases, events or screen adaptations that have been independently documented elsewhere on the site.

What is verified here: the core bibliographic identity — title, credited author or authors, original publication year and the work-level classification used by RoguesBook. The bibliographic source attached to this record is Google Books. That source supports catalog metadata; it is not treated as proof of every factual claim made inside the book. Claims about crimes, guilt, motives, disputed events or living people must be supported by separate case, court, government or high-quality historical sources before RoguesBook presents them as established fact.

Connections: Current exact-match connections include United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz. RoguesBook uses conservative matching here: an author link requires an exact canonical-person match, and a subject link requires the canonical entity or one of its recorded aliases to appear directly in the book title. This prevents a broad topic such as “Mafia” or “murder” from generating dozens of weak automatic relationships.

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