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Jeremy Drummond | |
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| Born | 1983 (age 40–41) Flint, Michigan |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genre | Mystery, Urban fiction |
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Jeremy Drummond (born April 6, 1983) is a published author of several novels. He resides in Detroit, Michigan.
Born in Flint, Michigan, to parents, Iverson & Bennita Drummond he picked up writing at an early age from them. His father being a General Motors foreman and also a published poet and his mother an elementary school librarian. He later moved to New York before finally residing in Detroit, MI.
Drummond primarily writes gritty Urban fiction that depicts drug dealers, ex cons, and prostitutes.
Drummond became known for his Urban Novel Dutchess . The ebook version has remained in the top 100 African American novels on Amazon.com since its release. His novels are sold throughout many mediums including Barnes and Nobles.
On April 27, 2010, Drummond released a mainstream fiction work entitled "Escaping The Rain" , A Nick Aldo Mystery. While evaluating further opportunities, Drummond is working on expanding his detective series, and releasing the sequel to Dutchess.
His work is constantly checked out in Libraries across the United States, since being reviewed by prestigious places as the Library Journal as well as the highly respected African American OOSA Book Club where it only received two out of five stars .
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