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Can the writer, called to sow the reasonable, the good, the eternal, combine the incompatible - genius and villainy, vice and virtue, good and evil? It turns out it can. If the imprisonment for four years of the famous writer, author of more than thirty books, Eduard Limonov, has become a well-known fact, then few people know that the beautifully drawn poet Pankraty Sumarokov once forged a hundred-ruble banknote, for which he lost his fortune and was sent into exile for fifteen years. Or, for example, the wonderful storyteller O. Henry, who wrote his best stories in federal prison, was sentenced to five years in prison for theft ... The reader will find many such stories about writers on the pages of this book. Here are collected biographies of writers who in different eras and years in one way or another conflicted with the law.