Washington Examiner

Black Mystery

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, ...
The New York Times

The Crime Novelist Who Was Also a Great American Novelist

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 ...
insider.si.edu

The Third Generation

Click to open image viewer. 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 ...
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If He Hollers Let Him Go

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 ...