Donald Goins net worth
Donald Goins Net Worth: Donald Goines is an African American writer who has a net worth of $500,000. Donald Goins was born in Detroit, Michigan in December 1936 and died in October 1974. Goins wrote urban fiction, and his novels were heavily influenced by the work of Iceberg Slim. Goins lied about his age and joined the Air Force at 15.
He fought in the Korean War and developed a heroin addiction. He was jailed several times for crimes including pimping and theft to support his drug addiction. Goins began writing while serving at the Jackson Prison in Michigan. He accelerated his writing to support his drug addiction and avoid crime. His novels include Drug Addicts, Whores, Gangsters, Street Players, White Justice, Black Sorrows, Lost Black Girls, El Dorado Red, “Swamp Man,” “Never Alone,” “Tears of Vengeance,” “Cool Dad” and “Inner City Gangster.” He also wrote four parts of the Kenyatta series under the pseudonym Al C. Clark. His book “Partners in Crime” was made into a movie in 2001, and his 2004 book “Never Alone” was released in 2004 and starred DMX. On October 21, 1974, Donald Goins and his live-in wife died in a homicide. Goins is 37 years old.
