The book Diseases of Canaries was written by a man incarcerated at Alcatraz between what years?
Diseases of Canaries Diseases of Canaries is a 1933 book by Robert Stroud, better known by his prison nickname of "The Bird Man of Alcatraz". He wrote it while serving a life sentence at Leavenworth Penitentiary.
John Laroche John Edward Laroche (born February 19, 1962 in Florida) is an American horticulturist who was arrested for allegedly poaching wild ghost orchids while working for the Seminole natives in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve in Florida. The subsequent trial brought him to the attention of Susan Orlean who wrote an article for "The New Yorker" and the book "The Orchid Thief" about him.