Editing Leopold and Loeb (section)

=== Leopold's years in prison ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-10970, USA, Nathan Leopold in Stateville Penitentiary.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Leopold in the [[Stateville Correctional Center|Stateville Penitentiary]], 1931]]
Leopold continued his work expanding the school and teaching after Loeb's death. In 1944, Leopold volunteered for the [[Stateville Penitentiary Malaria Study]]. He was deliberately inoculated with [[malaria]] pathogens and subjected to several experimental malaria treatments.<ref>Higdon, H. ''The Crime of the Century'' (1975). New York: Putnams. {{ASIN|B000LZX0RO}} pp. 281–317.</ref> He later wrote that all his good work in prison and after his release was an effort to compensate for his crime.<ref name="prison" />

In the early 1950s, author [[Meyer Levin]], a graduate of the University of Chicago, requested Leopold's cooperation in the writing of a novel that was based on the murder of Franks. Leopold responded to Meyer Levin's request by stating that he did not want his story to be told in a fictionalized form, but offered Levin a chance to contribute to his own memoir, which was in progress. Though the pair met to discuss the possibility, Leopold rejected Levin's help and Levin went ahead with his book alone, despite Leopold's express objections. The novel, titled ''[[Compulsion (Levin novel)|Compulsion]]'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Levin |first=M. |title=Compulsion |date=May 21, 1996 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=0786703199 |location=New York}}</ref> was published in 1956.

Levin portrayed Leopold, under the pseudonym Judd Steiner, as a brilliant but a deeply disturbed teenager, psychologically driven to kill because of his abnormal sexuality, troubled childhood and an obsession with Loeb. Leopold later wrote that reading Levin's book made him "physically sick... More than once I had to lay the book down and wait for the nausea to subside. I felt as I suppose a man would feel if he were exposed stark-naked under a strong spotlight before a large audience."<ref>''In Nathan Leopold's Own Words''. [http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/LEO_LEOW.HTM UMKC archive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101172214/http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/LEO_LEOW.HTM |date=January 1, 2018 }}.  Retrieved August 1, 2014.</ref>

Leopold's autobiography, ''Life Plus 99 Years'', was published in 1958<ref>Leopold, N. ''Life Plus 99 Years'' (1958). New York: Doubleday & Co. {{ISBN|1131524608}}</ref> as part of his campaign to win [[parole]].<ref name=Baatz/> His book was on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list for 14 weeks.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 7, 1958 |title=The New York Times Best Seller List |url=http://hawes.com/1958/1958-07-06.pdf |access-date=October 15, 2023 |archive-date=December 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228112547/http://hawes.com/1958/1958-07-06.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> While the book received generally positive reviews, some accused him of writing the book solely as a means of rehabilitating his public image by ignoring the dark side of his past.<ref name="Larson">Larson EJ. ''Murder Will Out: Rethinking the Right of Publicity Through One Classic Case''. [http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~review/vol62n1/Larson_v62n1.pdf Rutgers Law Review archive] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707184157/http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~review/vol62n1/Larson_v62n1.pdf |date=July 7, 2010 }}. Retrieved February 11, 2015.</ref>