‘Free: My Search for Meaning’: A Memoir of Growth

Amanda Knox suffered years in an Italian prison. She gives her side of the story in this moving account.
‘Free: My Search for Meaning’: A Memoir of Growth
Author Amanda Knox tells her story in her memoir, "Free: My Search for Meaning." Lucien Knuteson/Grand Central Publishing
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Since 2007, after enduring the arrest and guilty verdict in the brutal murder of her college roommate, the ensuing years in prison, and multiple trials to win exoneration, Amanda Knox has slipped out of the spotlight.

Under the control of the Italian judicial system, she suffered through global media frenzy and mental and physical anguish in a foreign prison that nearly broke her.

MJ Hanley-Goff
MJ Hanley-Goff
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MJ Hanley-Goff has written for Long Island’s daily paper, Newsday, the Times Herald-Record, Orange Magazine, and Hudson Valley magazine. She did a stint as editor for the Hudson Valley Parent magazine, and contributed stories to AAA’s Car & Travel, and Tri-County Woman. After completing a novel and a self-help book, she now offers writing workshops and book coaching to first time authors, and essay coaching to high school students.