Most readers these days who know Chester Himes know him for his detective fiction, novels like The Real Cool Killers and Cotton Comes to Harlem, which were written late in his career during the ...

Chester Himes was on par with Ellison, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, S.A. Cosby writes. Chester Himes’s life was a tangible journey through the existential African American psyche.Credit ...

In 1934, when he was 25, Chester Himes published a story in a new magazine called Esquire, joining fellow contributors Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound. At 35, Himes sold his debut novel to a major ...

In “Run Man Run,” the 1966 novel by Missouri-born writer Chester Himes, an exhausted New York City cop has an unwelcome epiphany. Emerging onto a stinking alleyway after a familiar encounter ...

Stuttgart, Germany, Feb. 16, 1973: Authors Chester Himes, left, and James Baldwin speak at the “Black Literature Night” and “Discussion of the Racial Situation in America and Europe” at ...

No other writer has arguably ever immortalised Harlem, the cultural and spiritual mecca of Black America, as magisterially as Chester Himes.The doyen of African-American crime fiction, who died 40 ...

CHESTER HIMES, A LIFE By James Sallis. Walker 384 pages, $28 On Dec. 18, 1928, Chester Himes was sentenced to 25 years of hard labor at the Ohio State Penitentiary Skip to main content Skip to ...

Lawrence Jackson recalled the life of author Chester B. Himes. He spoke at the 18th annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Lawrence Jackson recalled the life of author Chester B.

Most readers these days who know Chester Himes know him for his detective fiction, novels like The Real Cool Killers and Cotton Comes to Harlem, which were written late in his career during the ...