Chester Himes
Chester Himes (1909-1984) was the author of nearly twenty novels, dozens of short stories, and two volumes of autobiography, among which some of the best known are If He Hollers Let Him Go , a now-classic account of wartime Los Angeles as experienced by a black protagonist, and Cotton Comes to Harlem , one of a series of mysteries set in Harlem but based on two L.A. policeman he knew, written after he had self-exiled to France, where he lived for many years.
Chester Himes (1909-1984) was the author of nearly twenty novels, dozens of short stories, and two volumes of autobiography, among which some of the best known are If He Hollers Let Him Go , a now-classic account of wartime Los Angeles as experienced by a black protagonist, and Cotton Comes to Harlem , one of a series of mysteries set in Harlem but based on two L.A. policeman he knew, written after he had self-exiled to France, where he lived for many years. See less
