In Fort Greene Dreams, Nelson George describes his life. He is a music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker. He moved from Jamaica, Queens to Fort Greene, Brooklyn. His new place was 19 Willoughby Avenue. His apartment was luxurious. It was a duplex with wood floors, two bedrooms, twenty-foot high ceilings, a large kitchen, exposed brick walls, and a large backyard. He was able to afford this place because of his quickie bio of Michael Jackson son which had been a bestseller. He lived there for many year in which he did a lot of writing, film, and sex. He wrote five books from which the most outstanding was The Death of Rhythm and Blues. He also invested in She’s Gotta Have It, and a couple of other movies, and wrote and produced screenplays. While he lived there he found out what kind of a writer, lover and son he was but he used to call himself a mentor and, like his mother, a kind teacher. Not only did he write about artists and hang out with them, he found himself being a kind of one-man support for network for people. He also came to understand the place where mentoring, criticism, and producing overlapped.