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Born in Detroit, Michigan, to a middle class black family, Donald Goines was addicted to heroin at various points in his life. Goines accomplished an amazing feat by churning out 16 books in just five years. He began his writing career while serving time at Michigan's Jackson Penitentiary, where he was influenced by the work of Iceberg Slim. In his vivid depictions of ghetto and prison life, Goines employed both standard English and black English to great effect.

Some of Goines's novels have become films, such as Never Die Alone, which starred DMX,and "Crime Partners",which starred Ice-T, Snoop Dogg ,and Ja Rule.A minor independent movie made of his life was released in 2003. Goines's better known works include Black Gangster, the semi-autobiographical Whoreson, Dopefiend, Street Players, Eldorado Red, Daddy Cool (which was made into a graphic novel) and White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief. Inner City Hoodlum, which Goines had finished before his death, was published posthumously in 1975. The story, set in Los Angeles, was about "smack", money and murder.

Death
Goines and his wife were shot to death in Detroit on the night of October 21, 1974. According to some sources, Goines was gunned down over a failed drug deal.

But it is popularly believed that he was murdered by neighborhood criminals who objected to characters and storylines that they thought were based on themselves and thus clues to their identities and crimes. The identity of the killer or killers remains unknown.

Novels
Whoreson (1971)
Dopefiend (1972)
Black Gangster (1972)
Black Girl Lost (1973)
Street Players (1973)
White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief (1973)
Daddy Cool (1974)
Eldorado Red (1974)
Swamp Man (1974)
Never Die Alone (1974)
Crime Partners (1974)
Cry Revenge (1974)
Death List (1974)
Kenyatta's Escape (1974)
Kenyatta's Last Hit (1975)
Inner City Hoodlum (1975)