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K'wan

(K'Wan Foye)

K’wan is the #1 bestselling author of Welfare Wifeys, Section 8, Gutter, Still Hood, Hood Rat, Eve, Hoodlum, Street Dreams, Gangsta, Road Dawgz and his new series, Animal. In 2011 K’wan won the African American Literary Award for Welfare Wifeys. He has also been featured in Time, King, New York Press, and on MTV and BET. K'wan currently resides in New Jersey, where he is working on his next novel.

Genres: Urban Fiction

New and upcoming books

August 2024

Passion for the Heist
(Desperados, book 1)

September 2024

Black Godfather

July 2025

A Murder of Crows
(Desperados, book 2)

Series

Gangsta
1. Gangsta (2002)
2. Gutter (2008)

Hoodlum
   1. Hoodlum (2005)
     aka The Good Son
   2. Hoodlum 2 (2017)

Hood Rat
   1. Hood Rat (2006)
   2. Still Hood (2007)
   3. Section 8 (2009)
   4. Welfare Wifeys (2010)
   5. Eviction Notice (2011)
   5.5. The First & Fifteenth (2014)
   6. No Shade (2015)
   7. Outlaws & Disorder (2020)

G Unit (with Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson)
Blow (2007)

Animal
   0.5. Ghetto Bastard (2014)
   1. Animal (2012)
   2. The Omen (2013)
   3. Revelations (2014)
   4. Last Rites (2015)
   Animal: The Beginning (2016)
   4.5. Animal 4.5 (2017)
   5. Executioner's Song (2021)

Purple City
Purple Reign (2013)
Little Nikki Grind (2014)

Fix
   1. The Fix (2014)
   2. The Fix 2 (2014)
   3. The Fix 3 (2016)

Black Lotus
1. Black Lotus (2014)
2. The Vow (2020)

Diamonds
1. Diamonds and Pearl (2016)
2. The Diamond Empire (2017)

Book of Shadow
1. The Reluctant King (2021)
2. False Idols (2024)

Promises
1. Promise Broken (2022)
2. Promise Kept (2024)

Desperados
1. Passion for the Heist (2024)
2. A Murder of Crows (2025)

Novels

   Road Dawgz (2003)
   Street Dreams (2004)
   Eve (2006)
   Lawless (2019)
   Wrath (2019)
   Black Godfather (2024)

Collections

   Flexin & Sexin (2007) (with Erick S Gray and Anna J)
   Flirt (2009) (with others)
   The Massacre (2010) (with others)

Novellas and Short Stories

   From Harlem With Love (2010)
   The Leak (2011)
   Love & Gunplay (2012)
   The Life and Times of Slim Goodie (2013)
   Wild Cherry (2013)

Series contributed to

Streets of New York
2. Streets of New York Volume 2 (2009) (with others)

K'wan recommends

Single Black Female (2021)
Tracy Brown
"Tracy Brown once again proves that the art of storytelling isn't dead."

Role Play (2020)
Tu-Shonda L Whitaker
"They say money can't buy happiness, but it makes for one hell of a novel!"

Doing His Time (2007)
Nichelle Walker
"Doing His Time shows the real deal consequences of when good girls go bad."

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