📚 Celebrate Detroit’s Crime Fiction Icons ~ Donald Goines & Elmore Leonard: A Motor City Connection (Part of the Author Series collection - Detroit Public Library)

📍 Where: Detroit Public Library

📅 When: Sat. June 14 | 11:30 AM – 4:00 PM

🎟️ Location: Detroit Public Library – Main Branch

Join us for an unforgettable afternoon honoring two of Detroit’s greatest literary voices in crime and noir fiction — Donald Goines and Elmore Leonard. This special event will feature:

🖊️ Presentations by acclaimed biographers Eddie B. Allen Jr. – Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines and Chad Kushins – Elmore Leonard: Westerns and Noir

🎤 Moderated by veteran journalist Bill Proctor, former WXYZ investigative reporter.

This program will be held in the Galleria of the Main Library. Here is the day's agenda:

11:30 PM - Light refreshments served

12:00 PM – Welcome from Christine Peele-Co-Chair DPL Visting Author Series

12:05 PM – Introduction by Peter Leonard

12:10 PM – Author Talk: Chad Kushins

1:30 PM – Author Talk: Eddie B. Allen Jr.

3:00 PM – In Conversation: Chad & Eddie with Bill Procter

3:45 PM – Audience Q&A

Detroit Book City is excited to be the 'host bookseller' with limited copies of the book available on-site. Pre-order below & pick up signed copies of Low Road (now a feature film!) and Cry Revenge – 1974 reprint edition by Donald Goines on Sat. 6/14.

🎟️ This event is FREE but space is limited!

👉 Reserve Your Seat Now on Eventbrite

💻 Can’t make it in person? You can still order both titles and all of Donald Goines exclusive reprints today at our affiliate online store: https://bookshop.org/shop/detroitbookcity

Hope to see you there...

About the Author(s):

Donald Goines was born in Detroit, Michigan. He joined the U.S. Air Force instead of going into his family's drycleaning business. Following his service, he entered into a life of drug addiction and crime. He received seven prison sentences, serving a total of over six years. While he was in prison, Goines wrote his first two novels, Dopefiend: The Story of a Black Junkie and Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp. Goines was shot to death in 1974.

Back in 2008, Kensington reissued a number of the Goines books in different formats and with different covers to keep them fresh and appealing to new generations of readers. In 2020, they launched a program to reissue all 16 books over the course of 5 years, starting with BLACK GANGSTER in October 2020 and ending with SWAMP MAN, which will be released October 28, 2025.

Eddie B. Allen, Jr. is the biographer of Donald Goines with his seminal work, Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines.

He is a published author, award-winning reporter, and freelance journalist, who has covered such national figures as President Bill Clinton and civil rights icon Rosa Parks. A graduate of Wayne State University who majored in journalism and Africana Studies, his newspaper and Web contributions include the New York Times, Associated Press, Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Orlando Weekly, Toledo Blade, and BET.com. He lives in Detroit, Michigan, the same city that gave the world Donald Goines.