Chester Himes (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Chester Himes wrote many novels, including If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945), newspaper articles, and two autobiographies. His crime novels set in Harlem were the first to bring him international fame.
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Best known for the series of detective stories called the Harlem Domestic, Chester Himes wrote in many genres and with an impressive variety of techniques and themes. Because throughout his career, even after he had emigrated abroad, he confronted without flinching the wrenching effects of racism in the United States, he is...
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