User:Benmite/Quan Millz

1983 or 1984 (age 39–40)

Colby Durden, known by his pen name Quan Millz, is an American author. He is best known for his street lit novels.

Life and career

Colby Durden was born in Miami, where he was also raised, to middle class parents.

After being fired from a Chicago law firm in 2017, Durden was inspired by a friend who had self-published several books to write urban fiction novels under the pen name Quan Millz. The title of his first book, Ran Off on the Plug Twice, was named after a rap song. He decided to market his second book with a controversial title and cover, choosing the name My Bad White Bitch and a cover featuring guns and drugs with a white woman in the center. After having the book ghostwritten and published, he earned $10,000 within first two months from its sales. By 2023, he had published more than 70 street lit novels, such as Old Thot Next Door and This Hoe Got Roaches in Her Crib, several of which were ghostwritten. His books often employ stereotypical depictions of the hood and exaggerated humor, and are sold as audiobooks, ebooks, and in paperback.

Public image

Millz faced controversy after using the n-word while making a joke about conspiracy theories surrounding rapper Nipsey Hussle's killing on Facebook, which led users to allege that he was secretly a white man. Millz jokingly responded that he was "enjoying [his] white life on the sunny beaches of California" and later revealed himself to be a Black man.