Chester Himes: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography

by Michel Fabre and Robert E. Skinner

A contemporary of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes wrote with perhaps more angry fire than his celebrated colleagues about black protagonists doomed by white racisim and self-hate. Among his writings is a series of hard-boiled detective novels featuring black detectives and a host of Harlem hustlers. The acclaimed Harlem series and much of his later work were written in France where Himes lived as an American expatriate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313283966
• ISBN13: 9780313283963
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"