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693:(1952) is based on Himes's experiences in prison. It was Himes's first novel but was not published until about ten years after it was written. One reason may have been Himes's unusually candid treatment – for that time – of a homosexual relationship. Originally written in the third person, it was rewritten in the first person in a more "hard-boiled" style.
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I loved my brother. I had never been separated from him and that moment was shocking, shattering, and terrifying....We pulled into the emergency entrance of a white people's hospital. White clad doctors and attendants appeared. I remember sitting in the back seat with Joe watching the pantomime being
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Himes separated from his wife Jean in 1952, and the following year he began a period of travels by boarding a ship to France. By the 1950s, he had decided to settle permanently in France, a country he liked in part due to his popularity in literary circles. In
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enacted in the car's bright lights. A white man was refusing; my father was pleading. Dejectedly my father turned away; he was crying like a baby. My mother was fumbling in her handbag for a handkerchief; I hoped it was for a pistol.
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and in April 1936 was released on parole into his mother's custody. Following his release, he worked at part-time jobs while continuing to write. During this period, he came into contact with
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dubbed her, "his watchdog". After a long engagement, they were married in 1978, as
Chester Himes was still legally married to his first wife, Jean, and only able to gain a divorce that year.
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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
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in 1991. Two Himes short stories "The
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on Himes. Bohemian life in Paris would in turn lead Lesley and
Chester to the South of France and finally on to Spain, where they lived until Chester's death in 1984.
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Chester met his second wife, Lesley Himes (née Packard), when she went to interview him. She was a journalist at the
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fraternity, but was expelled for playing a prank. In late 1928, he was arrested and sentenced to jail and hard labor for 20 to 25 years for
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652:(1947), is overlooked and underappreciated, and positions it as a key text in reckoning both Himes's subsequent career and later works."
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heard about him and said: "I don't want no niggers on this lot." Himes later wrote in his autobiography:
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artists' community, where he stayed and worked in May and June 1948, in a room just across from where
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Dear Chester, Dear John : Letters between Chester Himes and John A. Williams
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1567:"New Chester Himes Biography Reveals A Life As Wild As Any Detective Story"
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My Life of Absurdity: The Autobiography of Chester Himes, Volume 2
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The Quality of Hurt: The Autobiography of Chester Himes, Volume 1
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Chester Himes: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography
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Two Guns from Harlem: The Detective Fiction of Chester Himes
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published a more deeply detailed biography of Himes called
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is a longer work that examines some of the same issues.
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Chester Himes, Kappa, (Ohio State University), Author
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles
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Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s
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1960:(2008). Williams, John A.; Williams, Lori (eds.).
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1702:"'Rhode Island Red': A Novel by Charlotte Carter"
840:Black on Black: Baby Sister and selected writings
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1875:Fabre, Michel; Skinner, Robert E., eds. (1995).
1362:. Walker & Company, New York, 2000, p. 150.
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2083:. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
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1964:. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
1913:(February 16, 1998). "Self-Mutilations".
1035:. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. 1990.
960:. Paris: Editions Les yeux ouverts. 1963.
809:in 1991. In the 1980s, British publisher
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1837:Mitgang, Herbert (November 14, 1984).
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1031:The Collected Stories of Chester Himes
528:Part of a memorial to Himes in Moraira
266:His first stories appeared in 1931 in
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2156:Wilson, M(atthew) L(awrence) (1988).
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2421:People from Jefferson City, Missouri
2396:American people convicted of robbery
2366:American convicts who became writers
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1006:. Paris: Lieu Commun (French). 1983.
617:Presentation by Lawrence Jackson on
581:. Later, novelist and Himes scholar
512:, at the age of 75. He is buried at
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204:University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
2211:Overview and Review of Himes's Work
2079:Chester Himes: A Critical Appraisal
1726:"If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968)"
1565:Corrigan, Maureen (July 26, 2017).
1372:Marsh, Michael (December 4, 1998).
1274:Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi)
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167:Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
133:Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
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2336:20th-century American male writers
2069:The Several Lives of Chester Himes
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1750:"Come Back Charleston Blue (1972)"
1700:Gonzales, Michael (May 29, 2018).
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1082:. Garden City NY: Doubleday. 1971.
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571:The Several Lives of Chester Himes
318:In the 1940s, Himes spent time in
299:In 1934, Himes was transferred to
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1502:Cosby, S. A. (February 2, 2024).
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1240:Polito, Robert (March 18, 2001).
888:. NY: New American Library. 1955.
876:. NY: New American Library. 1954.
731:The titles of the series include
282:in 1934) as well as to his novel
2284:"Lesley Himes papers, 1934–2008"
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2201:Essay on Chester Himes in France
1933:. Essen: Verlag Die Blaue Eule.
1877:Conversations with Chester Himes
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2305:"The Last Chester Himes Movie?"
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842:. London: Michael Joseph. 1942.
820:In May 2011, and again in 2020
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2376:American expatriates in France
2371:American crime fiction writers
1625:. W. W. Norton & Company.
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2381:American expatriates in Spain
2356:African-American male writers
2266:Clues: A Journal of Detection
2075:Milliken, Stephen F. (1976).
1981:Chester B. Hines: A biography
1979:Jackson, Lawrence P. (2017).
1467:Early, Gerard (May 7, 1989).
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952:. Paris: Olympia Press. 1961.
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638:Chester B. Himes: A Biography
619:Chester B. Himes: A Biography
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2011:University of Illinois Press
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2135:Skinner, Robert E. (1989).
1923:Yesterday Will Make You Cry
1622:Yesterday Will Make You Cry
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289:Yesterday Will Make You Cry
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2361:African-American novelists
2351:African-American Catholics
2286:, Amistad Research Center.
1802:Himes, Chester B. (1995).
1619:Himes, Chester B. (1999).
1125:Come Back, Charleston Blue
1110:If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
868:. NY: Coward-McCann. 1952.
792:Come Back, Charleston Blue
272:and, starting in 1934, in
182:Chester Himes was born in
2272:FBI file on Chester Himes
2036:Lundquist, James (1976).
1762:"A Rage in Harlem (1991)"
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909:The Five-cornered square
849:If He Hollers Let Him Go
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144:Lesley Packard (m. 1978)
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2411:Novelists from Missouri
2386:American male novelists
2291:"Lesley Himes Obituary"
1549:"Do the Harlem shuffle"
1407:"Lesley Himes obituary"
993:Blind Man with a Pistol
822:Penguin Modern Classics
774:Blind Man with a Pistol
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2225:Works by Chester Himes
1929:Freese, Peter (1992).
1598:Johns Hopkins Magazine
1115:Cotton Comes to Harlem
1014:The End of a Primitive
996:. NY: W. Morrow. 1969.
967:Cotton Comes to Harlem
920:. NY: Avon Nook. 1959.
892:The End of a Primitive
852:. NY: Doubleday. 1945.
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768:Cotton Comes to Harlem
642:Johns Hopkins Magazine
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493:The Man Who Cried I Am
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2105:Chester Himes: A Life
1594:"The lonely crusader"
1434:Chester Himes. A Life
1360:Chester Himes. A Life
1349:. Verso, 2006, p. 43.
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917:The Real Cool Killers
740:The Real Cool Killers
587:Chester Himes: A Life
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428:William Gardner Smith
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2282:Christopher Harter,
2277:Chester Himes Papers
2164:Nathan Irvin Huggins
2067:, and Michel Fabre.
1547:(October 21, 2000),
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1284:on February 8, 2007.
1064:Cast the First Stone
899:For Love of Imabelle
874:The Third Generation
866:Cast the First Stone
801:For Love of Imabelle
691:Cast the First Stone
500:Later life and death
401:Emigration to France
284:Cast the First Stone
2307:, November 6, 2008.
2042:. New York: Ungar.
1983:. NY: W.W. Norton.
1925:, by Chester Himes.
1681:. February 15, 2013
1445:Margolies, Edward,
1020:Allison & Busby
978:. NY: Putnam. 1966.
634:Lawrence P. Jackson
621:, September 1, 2018
510:Parkinson's disease
336:the great migration
212:The Quality of Hurt
151:Chester Bomar Himes
49:Chester Bomar Himes
1911:Franklin, H. Bruce
1843:The New York Times
1511:The New York Times
1476:The New York Times
1268:Liukkonen, Petri.
1247:The New York Times
934:The Big Gold Dream
903:Alternate titles:
860:. NY: Knopf. 1947.
832:Novels and stories
758:The Big Gold Dream
699:Melvin Van Peebles
559:The New York Times
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441:Melvin Van Peebles
395:Patricia Highsmith
368:, terminated when
301:London Prison Farm
2245:Books and Writers
2239:Petri Liukkonen.
2141:. Popular Press.
2065:Margolies, Edward
1958:Williams, John A.
1792:, April 20, 2017.
1632:978-0-393-31829-6
1302:on March 11, 2007
1296:"Alpha Phi Alpha"
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714:Gravedigger Jones
710:Coffin Ed Johnson
708:novels featuring
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294:Ohio Penitentiary
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