Rollin' With Dre

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Donnell Alexander

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Donnell Alexander, is the author of the forthcoming collaboration Rollin' with Dre (with Bruce Williams). The Ohio native is the author of Ghetto Celebrity (Crown, 2003), a non-fiction best-seller, among those tricked-out with Warning labels. BET News anchor Toure Called Ghetto Celebrity "a funny, funky, surprising journey inside the wild mind of a hip-hop generation brother trying to figure out himself and his ghetto world." Best-selling author Neil Pollack said, "If Eazy-E had written 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,' it would have been this book." And Keith Olbermann of MSNBC observed that, "Donnell Alexander has probably given us a preview of how most American writing will read twenty years hence." Ghetto Celebrity was named one of the best books of 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle and Africana.com (now AOL Black Voices). In September, Random House will publish Rollin' With Dre, a non-fiction collaboration between Alexander and Bruce Williams. As a reporter and critic, Alexander has written about hip-hop and African culture in America for publications as diverse as The Source, Utne Reader, and the Los Angeles Times. His style helped set the tone at ESPN The Magazine, where he was a member of the original writing staff. Alexander was also a major force in helping media activist Danny Schechter's MediaChannel.org take shape. His 1997 essay "Cool Like Me: Are Black People Cooler than White People>"--the final cover story of Dave Eggers' Might Magazine--is a staple of university curricula and has been widely anthologized. Through 2005, Alexander was senior staff writer for LA CityBeat. His current journalism is primarily found in West Coast magazines and newspapers, most prominently his San Francisco Chronicle literary criticism. The new hip-hop literary journal Bronx Biannual (Akashic Books) features part of Alexander's forthcoming novel, Rhyme Scheme.

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