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...Carl Van ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Chester Himes’ literary legacy has ...

Now, in Chester Himes: A Life, James Sallis has produced a superior new account of Himes’s life and work. In Sallis’s pages there emerges a picture of a charming, well-mannered, handsome, articulate, ...

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 1950s ...