Born: 12/15/1936   Detroit , MI
Died: 10/21/1974
Parents: Joseph and Myrtle Goines
Spouse: Thelma Powell; Shirley Sailor (common-law)
Children: 9
Address(es):
Burial:
Detroit Memorial Park East
Warren , MI

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Inner City Hoodlum - Published posthumously	Fiction	Adult	Los Angeles, Calif. : Holloway House	1975
	Kenyatta's Last Hit - Published posthumously as Al C. Clark	Fiction	Adult	Los Angeles, Calif. : Holloway House	1975
	Crime Partners - as Al C. Clark.	Fiction , Humor	Adult	Los Angeles, Calif. : Holloway House	1974
	Cry Revenge	Fiction , Mystery	Adult	Los Angeles, Calif. : Holloway House	1974
	Daddy Cool - Crime fiction	Fiction	Adult	Los Angeles, Calif. : Holloway House	1974
	Death List - as Al C. Clark	Fiction	Adult	Los Angeles, Calif. : Holloway House	1974
	Eldorado Red - Eldorado red comes from Goines' experience of robbing a local numbers house to support his heroin addiction.	Fiction	Adult	Los Angeles, Calif. : Holloway House	1974
	Never Die Alone	Fiction	Adult	Los Angeles, Holloway House	1974
	Swamp Man - Crime fiction	Fiction	Adult	Los Angeles, Holloway House	1974
	Black Girl Lost	Fiction	Adult	Los Angeles, Holloway House	1973
	Street Players	Fiction , Mystery	Adult	Los Angeles, Holloway House	1973
	White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief	Fiction	Adult	Los Angeles, Holloway House	1973
	Black Gangster - Setting: Detroit	Fiction , Michigan	Adult	Los Angeles, Holloway House	1972
	Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp - Setting: Detroit	Fiction , Michigan	Adult	Los Angeles, Holloway House	1972
	Dopefiend: The Story of a Black Junkie	Fiction , Mystery	Adult	Los Angeles, Holloway House	1971

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MeLCat Links:
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Started writing in prison. Found murdered in Highland Park Michigan after returning from Los Angeles. Some of Goines's works have been adapted into film. His book Crime Partners was turned into a 2001 film starring Ice-T, Snoop Dogg, and Ja Rule, and in 2004 his book Never Die Alone was also released as a film starring DMX. Further information can be found at http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/goines.htm

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