DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
> Does your buddy who's working on Holloway House's checklist have any
> knowledge and/or insight into whether all of the Goines books were
> actually written by Goines? I've heard speculation (even here, I
> think), that some of these books were ghosted by others, some even
> written after his death. I know for a fact that the Kenyatta series
> initially came out under the name Al C Clark. Was this a pseudonym, or
> did they simply reissue them under a name that sold better?
>
Al C. Clark was a pseudonym for Goines used for the Kenyatta series -
presumably so they didn't have too many books coming out at the same
time under the same name. However seeing as a whole lot of Goines books
came out posthumously - and he was already writing at top speed, so it's
hard to imagine how he stockpiled another dozen books - and given that
the posthumous books are notably better written than the ones that came
out during his lifetime - I would think there's a pretty good chance
they were ghost-written by another member of the HH team - maybe Joe
Nazel whose style is very similar to the posthumous Goines books.
John
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