John Kiriamiti

John Kiriamiti (born 14 February 1950) is a Kenyan former bank robber turned writer. Kiriamiti is best known as the writer of My Life in Crime and My Life with a Criminal: Milly's Story, which were both a sensation among Kenyan youth in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Kiriamiti was born in Thuita Village, Kamacharia, Murang'a District, in Central Kenya. He is the second of the nine children of Albert and Anne Wanjiru Kiriamiti, both primary school teachers in Murang'a.

In the years after his release from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, he has also become a philanthropist and social reformist rehabilitating street children and thieves in Murang'a. Besides writing novels, Kiriamiti owns and edits a newspaper, The Sharpener, which he established after the government ban on the Gikuyu version, Inooro, in 1995.