DONALD WRITES NO MORE by Eddie Stone

Addict, Thief, Pimp, Pusher, Player…and Writer! Donald Goines was all of these things. He started as a kid, the product of a middle-class family. After high school, he joined the Navy, and discovered the heroin that would rule the remainder of his life. On the streets, he turned to writing when he was straight enough to keep at it. He used the language of the streets and wrote of the streets and its people. His success was immediate and exciting. But eventually the streets claimed him. He was murdered as he sat writing a new book. Here for the first time is his complete story.

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LOW ROAD by Eddie B. Allen, Jr

Donald Goines was a pimp, a truck driver, a heroin addict, a factory worker, and a career criminal. He was also one of the world’s most popular contemporary African-American writers. Having published sixteen novels, including Whoreson, Dopefiend, and Daddy Cool, Goines developed a unique brand of “street narrative” and “ghetto realism” that marked him as the original street writer.

Now, in the first in-depth biography of Goines’s life, author Eddie B. Allen, Jr., explores exactly how one man could make the transition from street hustler to bestselling author. With exclusive access to many of Goines’s personal letters, treatments from unwritten books, photographs, and family members, Allen uncovers Goines’s personal experiences with drugs, prostitutes, prison, and urban violence. Fans of Goines’s novels will note a dramatic parallelism between his life and fictional tales.

Read all of the classic urban fiction by Donald Goines

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ICEBERG SLIM: THE LIFE AS ART by Peter A. Muckley

The life of Robert Beck is one of tragedy, drama, triumph, and triumphant disappointment. His life and the lives he witnessed inspired the memorable characters he created in his novels and essays penned until his death in 1992. In Iceberg Slim, unofficial biographer Peter Muckley has dissected the characters and prose of Pimp, Trick Baby, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, Mama Black Widow, Long White Con, Death Wish, Doom Fox, and Airtight Willie and Me to reveal some insightful interpretations as to the significance of these works. Through this exhaustive critique, Muckley has provided an intimate look at the man that the world has come to know as Iceberg Slim.

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