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Chester Himes was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction and detective novels, best known for his Harlem Detective series. He lived in France from 1953 to 1984, where he won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1958.
Complete order of Chester Himes books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
Jul 25, 2024 · Learn about Chester Himes, an African-American writer who published a series of Black detective novels in Paris. Explore his life, novels, and themes of racism, prison, and erotica.
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- July 29, 1909
- Chester Himes
- November 12, 1984
- A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
- If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes, Hilton Als (Foreword by)
- The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
- Cotton Comes to Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #7)
Jul 26, 2017 · Lawrence P. Jackson's meticulous big new biography of Himes, called simply Chester B. Himes, makes a convincing case for a writer who's always been something of a tough sell.
Feb 2, 2024 · For a nerdy kid who cut his crime fiction teeth on Chandler, Hammett and both Macdonalds (Ross and John D.), seeing this book written by a Black man about Black people — Black cops and con men ...
Chester Himes' stories are set in Harlem and feature the New York detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Himes was born into a middle-class family in Missouri in 1909. He died...
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