Kenn Neyland was born in Chicago, IL and grew up on the Kansas Prairie. His childhood dream was to play professional baseball, a goal he achieved in part in the minor leagues after signing with six major league organizations in as many years. However, Kenn's early years were fraught with personal conflict, which caused him to move from club to club, and this eventually brought an end to his career when, in 1965, he went away to prison for 17 years.

In his book When Dreams Fade Away: The Redemptive Journey of a Ball-Playing Bank Robber, Kenn Neyland tells the story of his incredible journey of social demise with a buttonhook ending, a bizarre tale of solo bank robberies, bold escapes from maximum-security prisons and a high-speed chase and shootout with state troopers on the Florida turnpike. In the final chapters of Dreams Fade Away, Kenn tells of his miraculous turnaround, which he attributes to his mentor, prisoner advocate Lucy Batchelor.

Upon his release from prison, Kenn attended the University of Kansas, studied criminology at the graduate level, and finished top of his class of '82. Since leaving the university, Kenn has busied himself honing his writing skills. While he works in the literary and songwriting mediums, he thinks of himself first as a screenwriter. His five screenplays have received recognition in national contests; one of his passions is to develop his screenplays into films and through Project Artisan, fund his altruistic projects.

Kenn Neyland has also busied himself with the founding of his new company, Neyland Enterprises, the publishing of five books, and making arrangements to found New Horizons Junior College, his youth alternative-to-prisons program, which embodies the philosophy of Project Reclaim.

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