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| July 29, 1909 |
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| Chester Himes (1909 - 1984) |
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Chester Himes, Hard Times
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| by Steve King |
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On this day in 1909 Chester Himes, "the father of black American crime writing," was born. Although Himes is mostly read for his "Harlem Domestic" novels -- Cotton Comes to Harlem, A Rage in Harlem and six others featuring the detectives "Coffin" Ed Jones and "Gravedigger" Johnston -- a recent flurry of attention may change that. The End of a Primitive and Yesterday Will Make You Cry, two novels deemed too sexual or violent when they first appeared, have been reissued in their original, uncut form as W. W. Norton "Old School Books. Add to this two recent full-length biographies, and Himes may be on the verge of rediscovery, twenty years after his death ... FULL STORY »
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