Chester Himes Life Stories, Books, & Links


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Chester Himes (1909 - 1984)

Category: American Literature

Born: July 29, 1909
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States

Died: November 12, 1984
Moraira, Spain

Related authors:
Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler

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7/29/1909		Chester Himes, Hard Times On this day in 1909 Chester Himes was born. Until recently, Himes was known primarily for his contributions to the noir-hardboiled genre -- Cotton Comes to Harlem, and his other "Harlem Domestic" detective novels. Recent, restored editions of some of his other books and several recent biographies make the case for regarding Himes, rather than such contemporaries as Wright and Baldwin, as "America's central black writer."

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A Rage in Harlem fiction
All Shot Up fiction
Conversations With Chester Himes by Chester Himes, Robert E. Skinner, Michel Fabre criticism and analysis
Cotton Comes to Harlem fiction
If He Hollers Let Him Go fiction
Lonely Crusade fiction
My Life of Absurdity: The Autobiography of Chester Himes memoirs
Plan B: A Novel by Chester Himes, Michel Fabre, Robert E. Skinner fiction
The Big Gold Dream fiction
The Collected Stories of Chester Himes anthology, fiction
The End of the Primitive fiction
The Heat's On fiction
The Quality of Hurt: The Autobiography of Chester Himes memoirs
The Real Cool Killers fiction
The Third Generation fiction

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Chester Himes: A Life by James Sallis biography
Chester Himes: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography by Michel Fabre, Robert E. Skinner, Lester Sullivan bibliography
Paris Without Regret: James Baldwin, Chester Himes, Kenny Clarke, and Donald Byrd by Ursula Broschke Davis literary history
The Critical Response to Chester Himes by Charles L.P. Silet (Editor) criticism and analysis
The Several Lives of Chester Himes by Edward Margolies, Michel Fabre biography

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