ST. LOUIS INNER-CITY NATIVE AUTHOR
Donnell (Don) Wilson knows what it means to grow up in the inner city of St. Louis in the 1940s and 50s. Times were not easy back then and Don knows what the “School of Hard Knocks” really means.
Passionate about what he does, his stories will transport you to another time and place.
Bad Boy Makes Good!
“Wilson’s memoir chronicles the life and times of an ordinary man…
A substantial life-and-times novel.”
– Kirkus Reviews –
Donnell Wilson’s acclaimed novel, Hypocrites In His Midst is one you need to see, and we want to send a review copy to you – no cost and no obligation!
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: The long road from street gangs to success…Hypocrites In His Midst: A Story About Flawed Human Beings is a fictional autobiography spanning seven decades. In this [1950’s] era of street gangs Wilton Latso is soon introduced into a world of violence, ego, and selfishness…“Willy Lost Soul”…lost…in the criminal underworld, is also a soul seeking personal ‘redemption.’
The themes of hypocrisy, ethics, success, and personal maturation reflect the more individual natures of the characters, certainly giving us something to think about… what captures us most is that they are quite different from the “normal” …likeable, but not exactly “good” people. These are people from the ‘wild’ side of life.
AUTHOR INFO: Donnell Wilson is the product of a rough, inner-city neighborhood who eventually became a successful tradesman and business owner. After taking his first writing course in his mid- twenties, he discovered his passion for the craft and never stopped. He currently lives in Florida with his wife, Mary, and is working on two fictional novels.
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Hypocrites In His Midst: A Story About Flawed Human Beings
By Donnell WilsonIn the Saint Louis housing projects of the 1940s and 1950s, Wilton Latso is known as a lot of things, but nobody would dare call him a hypocrite. A tough guy with a heart of gold, he may have issues controlling his Irish temper, but he’s never broken a promise or turned his back on a friend—even while maintaining the fast-driving and hard-drinking lifestyle of his young adulthood.
And with a wife and four kids by the age of twenty-one and five by age twenty-four, he’s constantly struggling to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads any way he can.
But when he isn’t burying himself in his work or hanging out with his street gang friends, he’s struggling with the conservative, evangelical Christian values he was brought up with—views he previously respected but that his caring nature has forced him to look at with a skeptical eye.
Hypocrites in His Midst is based on the true story of a juvenile delinquent raised in a neighborhood fraught with violence and poverty and how he came to be a business owner, a voice for the independent working class, and an all-around nice guy.