Chester Himes - Author Information, Books, and News

Author Information for Chester Himes

Our Database has this author listed as deceased.
Comment: Began writing from the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery from 1929-1926. An article regarding the 1930 fire there appeared in Esquire in 1932. He moved to France in 1953.

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Database Info:
    Books In Classes: [Mystery] [Fiction]
    Books In Genres: [Ethnic]
    Books In Database: 13
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Dare-Dare
	Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

The Third Generation
	Fiction Ethnic Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Book Series : Coffin Ed Johnson & Grave Digger Jones

- Detectives / 1950s Harlem
- Region: New York City Urban

Blind Man With a Pistol (©1969) 181 pp.
	Mystery Ethnic Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

The Heat's On (©1966)
	Mystery Ethnic Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Cotton Comes to Harlem (©1965) 159 pp.
	Mystery Ethnic Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

All Shot Up (©1960)
	Mystery Ethnic Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

The Big Gold Dream (©1960)
	Mystery Ethnic

A Rage in Harlem
	Mystery Ethnic Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

If He Hollers Let Him Go
	Mystery Ethnic

The Crazy Kill
	Mystery Ethnic

The Harlem Cycle
	Mystery Ethnic Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Comment: A Rage in Harlem; The Real Cool Killers; The Crazy Kill

The Harlem Cycle
	Mystery Ethnic Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Comment: The Big Gold Dream; All Shot Up; The Heat's On

The Real Cool Killers
	Mystery Ethnic Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB