K wan foye biography definition

K’wan Foye’s silver M-Class is idling in the parking lot of the Frederick Douglass housing projects on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and he is getting anxious.

A black flat-brimmed Yankees cap is pulled low over his eyes, “Write 2 Eat” tattooed on his right hand. A police car rolls slowly past and parks just up ahead. “You think he pulled in this lot by chance?” says Foye, who is among the most popular authors of “street lit”, or “urban fiction”, a genre written mainly by, for and about African-Americans.

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Foye’s pulpy thrillers are concerned with the travails of wily working girls and ruthless pimps, code-bound gang-members and hustlers on the make, roughneck dope fiends, righteous drug dealers and lovelorn molls. They are rich in the argot of hip-hop and Foye trades in the lurid details of underworld life: graphic, sticky sex; bloody, teeth-spitting violence; the machinations of gangland realpolitik.

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