Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines

Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines by Allen, Eddie B.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312291242.

Donald Goines was a pimp, a truck driver, a heroin addict, a factory worker, and a career criminal. He was also one of worlds most popular Black contemporary writers. Having published 16 novels, including Whoreson, Dopefiend, and Daddy Cool, Goiness unique brand of "street narrative" and "ghetto realism" mark him as the original street writer. Now, in the first in-depth biography of Goiness life, author Eddie B. Allen explores exactly how one man could make the transition from street hustler to bestselling author. With exclusive access to personal letters, treatments from unwritten books, photographs, and family members, Allen uncovers Goiness personal experiences with drugs, prostitutes, prison, and urban violence. Fans of Goiness novels will note a dramatic parallelism between his life and his fictional tales.