Chester Himes

Chester Himes , (Jefferson City in the Missouri, July 29th 1909 - Alicante, November 12th 1984), is a American writer .

Biography

Wire of teachers black-American, it begins from academic works in the Ohio which it finances while being lift attendant and barman. It falls one day in a lift shaft empties and all its life will remain slightly handicapped about it: it will be obliged to carry a corset all its life. At 19 years, he trails with a band of hooligans of Cleveland and will end up being condemned to 20 years of prison for the flight of jewels and a car; he leaves seven years there later. During its prison stay, he discovers the literature (Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Fédor Dostoïevski) and writes his first news describing the condition of the American black, for the Cleveland Daily News . Its first novel If it Braille, releases it… appears in 1945 without being success. After having worked on shipyards in California while continuing to write, it leaves for the Europe in 1953. In Paris it meets in 1957 its translator, Marcel Duhamel - founder of the collection Black series with the editions Gallimard - for which it writes its first detective novels. the Queen of the apples , appears in 1958 and obtains the Grand Prix of police literature. Y appear for the first time the two famous police inspectors of Harlem, Coffin ED Johnson ( ED Coffin in French) and Serious Digger Jones ( Fossoyeur Jones ). He writes later his Autobiographie in two volumes. He settles in Spain starting from 1965 and dies in Alicante at the 75 years age.

Its writings denounce the condition of the black and the Racisme.

the queen of the apples was taken again in Cartoon by Wolinski at the beginning of its career. It was also carried to the screen in 1991 by Bill Duke under the title Rage in Harlem (title not translated).

Principal works

If He hollers, let him go ( If it Braille, releases it… ) (new), 1945
the crusade of Lee Gordon 1952
the end of primitive a , 1953
the third generation 1953
has rage in Harlem = For coils Imabelle off = The five-cornered public garden ( the queen of the apples ), 1958
If disturbs was money ( It rains hard blows ), 1958
The crazy kill ( Couché in the bread ), 1959
Imbroglio negro , 1959
Very to like , 1961
Be calm ( we do not irritate! ), 1961
Plane B 1976
That one throws the first stone 1976 to him
Regrets without repentance , 1979, autobiography.
the phantom of Rufus Jones and other news

External bond

the faces of the moon extracts from the collection Faut to be negro to do that (1941). Audio reading on Incipit Blog
http://www.ratsdebiblio.net/himeschester.html

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