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Goines was born in Detroit, Michigan on December 15, 1936. His parents were a middle-class Black Catholic couple that ran a laundry business. His mother Myrtle Goines told Goines that her family was descended from Jefferson Davis and a woman who was enslaved. [2] [3] Donald was the middle child of three, and the only son. [4]
Donald Goines: Highland Park: 1974-10-21: 2: Author of urban fiction murdered with his common-law wife in their apartment: Ann Arbor Hospital murders: Ann Arbor: 1975: 10: Murders of 10 patients by intravenous administration of curare drug at VA hospital by nurses Filipina Narciso and Leonora Perez. [4] [2] Livernois–Fenkell riot: Detroit ...
Died: Donald Goines, 37, African-American writer of urban fiction, and his common-law wife, Shirley Sailor, were murdered in their apartment in Highland Park, Michigan. The murders remain unsolved. The murders remain unsolved.
Donald Goines became a bestselling author by writing about the life he knew as a pimp, prisoner, con man, armed robber, heroin addict and dropout.
Writer Donald Goines (37) and his wife Shirley Sailor were found shot dead in their Detroit apartment on 21 October 1974. [349] No suspects have ever been identified. Frances Bemis (76), a female public relations specialist, was murdered in St. Augustine, Florida on 3 November 1974, by persons unknown. The murder remains unsolved. [350]
Gerald Goines had been set to go to trial in June on two counts of murder in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle, 59, and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas, 58. Prosecutors allege Goines had lied to ...
Author Donald Goines acknowledged the strong influence of Beck's Pimp when he created his urban fiction set in a black milieu. Goines was also published by Bentley Morris of Holloway House. [5] Peter A. Muckley published Iceberg Slim: The Life as Art (2003), a critical study of the fiction of Iceberg Slim. [27]
Three years after his divorce from his first wife, Maples gave birth to the couple's only child together in 1993, Tiffany Trump (named after "Tiffany & Co"). He and Maples wed two months later.