Wilson, Mary

Donnell Wilson was born in Senath, Missouri, and grew up in an inner-city neighborhood in Saint Louis during the 1940s and 1950s.

Raised by emotionally distant, evangelical Christian parents, he spent his teenage and young adult years in a flurry of violence-witnessing murders, suicides, and rapes. He married his first wife at seventeen and had four children by the age of twenty-one.

Eventually, Wilson became a successful tradesman and business owner who has always lived a fast-paced life. He has been writing ever since taking his first writer's course in his midtwenties and also enjoys