Chester Himes
Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was an American storyteller, who began a journey of writing while serving 30 years in Ohio State Prison, writing for accepting European magazines and journals not openly hostile to the so-called "Negro." Upon his release into his mother's care, Langston Hughes introduced Himes to a French publisher and, as they say, the rest is history. His works, some of which have been filmed, include IF HE HOLLERS LET HIM GO, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in the 1950s and early 1960s and featuring two black policemen called Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. In 1958 Himes won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
Books by Chester Himes
1 Books found
Cotton Comes To Harlem
Authors: Chester Himes
COTTON COMES TO HARLEM was actually quite unique for its time. Five years before the marked era of blaxploitation—a full ten before urban literary griot Donald Goines.