What Happened To The Author Donald Goines?
What Happened To The Author Donald Goines? Death. On October 21, 1974 Goines and his common-law wife Shirley Sailor were discovered dead in their Highland Park, Michigan apartment. What was Donald Goines first book? Goines had been out of prison for about a year when his first novel, Dopefiend: The Story of a Black Junkie,