From Pimp Stick to Pulpit: It's Magic (1994)

The life story of Bishop Don Magic Juan, written with Ann Bromfield and published in 1994: his rise in Chicago and his turn to the church.

From Pimp Stick to Pulpit—It's Magic: The Life Story of Don Magic Juan is the autobiography of Bishop Don Magic Juan. Google Books lists it as published in 1994 by Vantage Press, credited to Ann Bromfield and Don Juan and edited by Katheryn L. Patterson, at 119 pages (ISBN 9780533108732). Vantage Press was a New York subsidy publisher, where authors paid to have their books produced.

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The book's description summarises it as the story of a Chicago pimp's rise from the ghetto to celebrity and his move into religious leadership in Chicago. It was published five years before the Hughes brothers' American Pimp made him a national figure, which makes it the earliest first-person account of his life in this archive.

The title has stayed attached to him. The book is still listed by used-book sellers such as AbeBooks and Better World Books, and in 2018 he appeared at The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles for an event billed under the same name.

ALSO KNOWN AS
Not established

BORN
Published 1994

STATUS
Out of print (used copies)

ERA
1994–present

ASSOCIATED WITH
Bishop Don Magic Juan; Ann Bromfield; editor Katheryn L. Patterson; Vantage Press; Chicago

STANDING
Documented