In 1974, he published Dummy, a non-fiction account of the story of Donald Lang, an accused deaf-mute murderer.
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For creating the Shaft books, he became one of the few white individuals to win an NAACP Image Award.
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In 1980, he wrote the teleplay for the TV movie Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, which he also had a hand in producing), which got him an Emmy nomination.
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