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Bookmark or Share- Chester Himes | Encyclopedia.comBest known as the creator of the fictional black detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, writer Chester Himes created a memorable body of work that vividly captured as well as satirized the life of blacks in a racist society.
- A Chester Himes Appreciation by S.A. Cosby - The New York TimesChester 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. Carl Van...
- New Chester Himes Biography Reveals A Life As Wild As Any ...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. Himes' early...
- Chester Himes - WikipediaChester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was an American writer. 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 ...
- How Chester B. Himes Became the Rage in Harlem, and BeyondCHESTER B. HIMES. A Biography. By Lawrence P. Jackson. Illustrated. 606 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $35. In a 1942 essay for Opportunity, the journal of the Urban League, the novelist Chester...
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