Picking Cotton has been adopted for First-Year Experience programs at:Ĭoncordia University (MN) East Carolina University (NC) Florida State College, Jacksonville Georgia Gwinnett College Georgia Perimeter College Hilbert College (NY) Iowa Lakes Community College North Carolina Central University Pitt Community College (NC) Queensborough Community College (NY) Roberts Wesleyan College (NY) Somerset Community College (KY) University of Kentucky University of Mount Olive (NC) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Pembroke Wheelock College (MA) She was a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Nonfiction Fellow. He lives in North Carolina with his family.Įrin Torneo is a Los Angeles-based writer. Ronald Cotton speaks at various schools and conferences about issues of witness identification and judicial reform. She speaks frequently about the need for judicial reform and is a member of the North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission. Jennifer Thompson-Cannino lives in North Carolina with her family. In their own words, Jennifer and Ronald unfold the harrowing details of their tragedy, and challenge ideas about memory and judgment while demonstrating the profound nature of human grace and the healing power of forgiveness.
They forged an unlikely friendship that changed both of their lives. Two years later, Jennifer and Ronald met face to face. He was released after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed. After eleven years in prison, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-but Jennifer’s positive identification was the evidence that compelled a jury to put him behind bars. She was able to escape, and because she had studied his face intently during the attack, she later identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker.
In 1984, Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. “The story of Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, as told in first-person voices in this gripping, well-written book, is exceptional.”
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo
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