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Detroit: An American Autopsy is a 2013 book by Charlie LeDuff, published by Penguin Books. In the book LeDuff discusses the present state of Detroit and its economic ...
The book dealt with an anti-hero character named after Jomo Kenyatta that ran an organization similar to the Black Panthers to clear the ghetto of crime. In his book The Low Road , Eddie B. Allen remarks that the series was a departure from some of Goines's other works, with the character of Kenyatta symbolizing a sense of liberation for Goines.
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis is a 2012 book by Mark Binelli, published by Picador (UK) and by Metropolitan Books (US). The book was later published in the United Kingdom by Bodley Head under the title The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant.
Wayne Dyer, self-help book writer (born in Detroit) James Finn Garner, humorist (born in Dearborn) Jerry B. Jenkins, religious writer, "as told to" biographer, romance writer (born in Kalamazoo) Ring Lardner, Sr., satirist, short story writer and sports columnist (born in Niles) Robert McKee, well-known creative writing instructor (born in Detroit)
It is the story of Gertie Nevels and her family's migration from their Kentucky homeland to industrial Detroit during World War II. First published in 1954, the novel earned a 1955 nomination for the National Book Award. [ 1 ]
Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well.
The Detroit series sets out "to tell the story of America in the twentieth century through the microcosm of Detroit, the one city whose history mirrors precisely the history of the United States of America". [5] Whiskey River (1990) ISBN 978-0-553-07042-2; Motown (1991) ISBN 9780553074215; King of the Corner (1992) ISBN 9780553089264
The Rosary Murders is a 1987 American mystery crime film directed by Fred Walton, and starring Donald Sutherland, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer, and Josef Sommer. The plot follows a series of gruesome murders occurring within a Detroit Roman Catholic parish. It is based upon the 1979 novel of the same name by William X. Kienzle.