"Important initial research into a writer—and a genre—in need of further serious attention. (8 pp. b&w photos, not seen)"
Moderately successful attempt to reconstruct the short life of a drug user, pusher, pimp, and felon who, upon his release from prison, penned 16 books (Whoreson, Never Die Alone, etc.) that fictionalized his criminal street life and sold millions of copies, mostly to urban African-Americans.
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