I’m writing a true crime biography on Ted Kaczynski, and there’s an autobiographical unpublished book written by Kaczynski in a University of Michigan Library Special Collections archive which would be really useful to my writing.

I have a photocopy of it, but I’m missing a few words on various pages where there are photocopy blotches obscuring the text. And I have tried requesting scans from the library staff, but they haven't had the time to explain the various listings and have simply made further scans of photocopy reprints with the same photocopy blotches.

Kaczynski is aged 79 now, and has been transferred to a prison hospital, so may die any day. I know it’s morbid rushing to try and get a book out before someone’s death, even if that person is a serial killer, but I started this project before I knew he was sick and I’d really like to get some mention into the news cycle clearly critiquing his philosophy and explaining his psychology, so that less wayward souls get lost down the eco-fundamentalist rabbit hole.

In return for visiting the University Library and taking photographs of the pages with missing text, I can potentially offer a few of or all these options; payment via paypal, a digital copy of his autobiographical book, a free print copy of my biography and your name credited in the book.

So, if you like the idea and have the time, you can email me at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) and I’ll send you a bunch of free stuff and explain what documents to request and how to find the missing text.

Here’s an article on the The Ted Kaczynski Papers: FBI Files and Photographs at the U-M Library:

https://apps.lib.umich.edu/.../ted-kaczynski-papers-fbi...

There's also tons of other interesting material you could browse through while you're there also. For instance there's two short autobiographies he wrote. And here's the full archive contents list:

Ted Kaczynski Papers 1996-2014 (umich.edu)