Dirty South (Triple Crown Publications Presents)
Mr. Darrell King, Sr. has been writing ever since the age of eight. His first published work of fiction was penned during the fall of 1976 as a student of Mary Field's Elementary School on South Carolina's Daufuskie Island. This effort, an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's ''The Hobbit,'' was both written and illustrated by Mr. King and was published in the school's quarterly periodical, ''The Daufuskie Kid's Magazine.'' Mr. King went on to write several unpublished stories and numerous poems, several of which were published in the 1995-1996 ''Poetry Anthology'' by the National Library of Poetry in Owings Mills, Maryland. During the 90s, Mr. King was attracted to and inspired by the lurid tales of inner city crime and drama that he read on the pages of novels by great writers such as Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim. This, coupled with an enduring appreciation for the hard-edged, yet enlightened lyric of the era's gangsta rap icons like Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Easy E and others prompted Mr. King to begin writing his very own stories of urban crime and inner city drama. Mr. King resides in Prince George's County, Maryland with his wife Sonya and their five children.