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    Oprah picks California death row inmate's autobiography for book club

    LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey has chosen a California death row inmate's autobiography — in which he proclaims his innocence — as her influential book club's next read, she announced Tuesday. The move was sure to bring immense attention to — and spur sales of — Jarvis Jay Masters' book, "That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row," which was first published in 2009 ...
    by Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times Sep 13, 2022 4 minutes
    "That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row" by Jarvis Jay Masters.

    LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey has chosen a California death row inmate's autobiography — in which he proclaims his innocence — as her influential book club's next read, she announced Tuesday.

    The move was sure to bring immense attention to — and spur sales of — Jarvis Jay Masters' book, "That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row," which was first published in 2009 and recounts Masters' traumatic childhood, his life in prison and his discovery of Buddhism behind bars.

    The selection also shines a spotlight on Masters' ongoing legal battle to overturn his conviction and death sentence in the

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