Helen Prejean

writer, activist

Sister Helen Prejean is the author of the best selling book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, published by Random House in 1993 and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. The book is a detailed study of the death penalty in the United States. It also tells the true story of a friendly, down to earth nun who brought love to a death row killer, and to the families of his victims.