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Portrait of Chester Himes Photo: Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images (1970)

Himes, Chester

Country/Region:
USA, Spain
Born:
July 29, 1909
Dead:
November 12, 1984
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature
Chester Bomar Himes was among the foremost Afro-American authors, especially in terms of the way he wrote about racism in America in all its guises. He caused a great deal of attention as an author of crime fiction in France in the 1950s. However, his stories about the lives of blacks and Latinos living in urban ghettos were not beginning to be discussed seriously in the United States until twenty years later. Himes’s work is now much acclaimed and the subject of academic study.

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