The information that is in the book is now out on the Internet and in many other places, and was even at the time. Historyīut I also think it's important to say that while the book has been connected to some of these acts of violence and it has been influential for the people who read it, I don't think it is responsible in any kind of legal sense or causal sense. The Two-Way A List Of The Deadliest Mass Shootings In Modern U.S. But I think it saddens him to know that the book was associated with acts of violence. I think he learned a lot from the experience. On some level I think he doesn't regret having written the book because it sort of came to define who he was and I think he grew from it.

It, as he says, filled him with remorse, although he distinguishes between remorse and regret. I know that when he learned about the associations between the book and acts of violence, I think it affected him deeply. On how Powell felt about the book being linked to acts of violence But he did it outside the United States, and I think part of it has to do with the fact that the book dogged him and kind of followed him throughout his adult life. He traveled the world and really became an expert, a leading expert, in the field of work with kids with emotional needs. He himself started working with kids who had emotional problems, kids who suffered from ADD and ADHD, and he worked in schools around the world. He went to college and then became a teacher. I would say, you know, Bill sort of redeemed himself. On what Powell did with his life after writing the book But it does do something to explain how they got there. All of this is not to excuse what happened in writing the book as it, I think, doesn't excuse the acts of violence that young people who are taken advantage of or hurt go on to commit. There were people who could have been role models, teachers for example, who were abusive toward Bill, and he was bullied as a kid. I think Bill - like a number of kids who have gone on to commit acts of violence, usually males - was sort of let down by the adult world. On the source of Powell's anger when he was 19īill was an angry young man, and with reason.

So I saw parallels between Bill's story, which was kind of a pre-Internet test case of this phenomenon, and this Internet phenomenon of people being publicly disgraced for things that they do at a very young age. Often there are stories of, you know, kids these days writing things online that they come to regret, but can't take back. I just tracked him down and I talked to him about what interested me about his story: the parallels between his story of writing this book at age 19 and, you know, creating a kind of Frankenstein's monster - something that he was unable to control after creating it - because the book, I imagined, haunted him throughout his life. On how Siskel convinced Powell to talk to him

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