6/11/2023 0 Comments Cherry by Nico Walker![]() ![]() The film is out this weekend in theaters and on AppleTV March 12th, with Tom Holland starring. As a form of penance, Walker used proceeds from the book to pay back the banks he robbed.ĭirecting duo the Russo Brothers caught on, and after delivering a few Marvel epics, have adapted Walker’s work into a drama thriller. The actual number is 100,000 copes in print.) and earned several accolades, including a nomination for the PEN/Hemingway Award. It soon became an unexpected phenomenon (“we were thinking maybe 1000 copies would be sold,” he remembers. He began writing his first novel, the semi-autobiographical Cherry, while serving an eleven-year prison sentence for a series of bank robberies in the Cleveland area committed in a four-month span. The drug habit led to a life of crime, which led to a stint in jail. Walker served as an army medic during the Iraq War, and by the time he returned home he had been on over 250 combat missions and developed PTSD and depression, for which he turned to heroin to cope. ![]() Nico Walker may be a fan of ordinary words, but his journey as an author has been anything but. ![]() “I’m a big fan of poetry,” Walker says in between exhalations. Sitting in his home in Oxford, Mississippi, acclaimed author Nico Walker lights up a cigarette, closes his eyes, and starts discussing poetry. ![]()
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