Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit—and became a notorious tabloid story in the process. Though she was exonerated, it’s taken more than a decade for her to reclaim her identity and truly feel free.

Free recounts how Knox survived incarceration, the mistakes she made and misadventures she had reintegrating into society, and culminates in the untold story of her return to Italy and the extraordinary relationship she’s built with the man who sent her to prison. It is the gripping saga of what happens when you become the definition of notorious but have quietly returned to the matters of a normal life—seeking a life partner, finding a job, or even just going out in public.
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In harrowing (and sometimes hilarious) detail, Amanda reveals her personal growth and hard-fought wisdom, recasting her public reckoning as a private reflection on the search for meaning and purpose that will speak to everyone persevering through hardship.

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A dedicated advocate for criminal justice reform, media ethics, and personal resilience

Amanda Knox is an exoneree, journalist, public speaker, and author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Waiting to Be Heard. Between 2007 and 2015, she spent nearly four years in an Italian prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit. Cast by the international media as a femme fatale, she was shamed and vilified on a global scale. She has emerged from those traumas more resilient than ever. She now advocates for criminal justice reform, ethical media, and shares her insights about post-traumatic growth. She sits on the advisory council for the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice and serves as an Innocence Network Ambassador.

With the Labyrinths podcast, Amanda brings experience and wisdom born from international infamy and hard fought exoneration to conversations with people from all walks of life who have faced their own journeys of trauma and recovery. 

Produced with her husband, author Christopher Robinson, Labyrinths brings nuance and empathy to the art of storytelling, featuring gripping tales of resilience that inspire listeners on their own journeys of personal growth, open and honest conversations about challenging topics, playful debates, and plenty of philosophical rabbit holes.

In Waiting To Be Heard, Amanda Knox gives an unflinching and deeply personal account of her harrowing experience in Italy, from the devastation of her friend’s murder to the series of mistakes and misunderstandings that led to her arrest. She speaks intimately about what it was like, at the age of twenty, to find herself imprisoned in a foreign country for a crime she did not commit and demonized by the international media, and about the impact on her family and loved ones as they traveled back and forth to be at her side so that she would not be alone. 
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A soul-bearing account of a nightmare turned real, of unimaginable horror and the miscarriage of justice that ensued, and, ultimately, of fortitude in the face of overwhelming adversity, Waiting to Be Heard is a memoir unlike any you have ever read.

"[Knox] conveys her emotions with considerable visceral power."
          — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 

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A Remarkable Speaker
Thoughtful, passionate, and revelatory, Amanda Knox has captivated audiences across the country and abroad, speaking to private groups, classrooms, conferences and town halls to audiences numbering in the thousands.​

​Topics

• Resilience / Overcoming adversity
• Navigating controversy and public shaming
• Forgiveness, compassion, and empathy
• Post-traumatic growth
• Truth vs. misinformation
• Feminism and misogyny​
• Wrongful convictions: causes and solutions

Resilience, a series for Waking Up

Resilience is a 12-part lecture series by Amanda Knox recorded for Sam Harris's Waking Up meditation app.

Amanda shares the practices and traditions she’s turned to over the years to discover a deeper, more enduring wellspring of equanimity and strength.

“We all lose. We all get broken. We all face setbacks. But we’re more than able to pick ourselves up.” By employing tools like mindfulness, Stoicism, and other frameworks and philosophies, Amanda says, each of us can find psychological freedom in the midst of adversity and, ultimately, “become better than we were before—more than the sum of our shattered parts.”​

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