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    Himes won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, on July 29, 1909, to Joseph Sandy Himes and...
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  • Charles Martin (1910-1983), based on the 1945 novel of the same title by Chester Himes. Dana Wynter as Ellen Whitlock Raymond St. Jacques as James Lake Kevin...
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  • If He Hollers Let Him Go is the first novel by American writer Chester Himes, published in 1945, about an African-American shipyard worker in Los Angeles...
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  • 1991 American crime film directed by Bill Duke and loosely based on Chester Himes' novel A Rage in Harlem. The film stars Forest Whitaker, Danny Glover...
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  • Harlem Detective series (category Novels by Chester Himes)
    The Harlem Detective series of novels by Chester Himes comprises nine hardboiled novels set in the 1950s and early 1960s: For Love of Imabelle, a.k.a...
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  • Cotton Comes to Harlem (novel) (category Novels by Chester Himes)
    Cotton Comes to Harlem is a hardboiled crime fiction novel written by Chester Himes in 1965. It is the sixth and best known of the Harlem Detective series...
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  • ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-04-25. Himes, Chester B. (1998). My life of absurdity: the autobiography of Chester Himes. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press....
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  • Dickinson College Chester Himes (1909–1984), African-American writer Dick Himes (born 1946), American football offensive lineman Donald Himes, Canadian actor...
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    1963–64, during which he profiled, and later became friends with, Chester Himes. Himes got him a job at the anti-authoritarian humor magazine Hara-kiri, where...
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  • cited as an early example of the blaxploitation genre, is based on Chester Himes' novel of the same name. The opening theme, "Ain't Now But It's Gonna...
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