Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines

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 his fictional tales.