Chester B. Himes
Subtitle: a biography
By: Lawrence P. Jackson
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 606
ISBN-13: 9780393063899
Subjects: American Novelists; Biography; African American novelists
Description: xv, 606 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Old School Negro: 1909-1914; title: The Southern Crosses The Yellow Dog: 1914-1925; title: Banquets And Cocaine Balls: 1925-1928; title: Gray City Of Exiled Men: 1928-1936; title: White Folks And The Days: 1936-1941; title: Ruin Of The Golden Dream: 1941-1944; title: Trying To Win A Home: 1944-1945; title: Monkey An' The Lion: 1946-1948; title: Inflicting A Wound Upon Himself: 1948-1952; title: Cadillacs To Cotton Sacks: 1952-1954; title: Othello: 1954-1955; title: A Pistol In His Hand, Again: 1955-1959; title: Five Cornered Square: 1959-1962; title: Cotton Comes To Harlem: 1963-1965; title: A Moor In Spain: 1965-1972; title: Afro-American People's Novelist: 1972-1984.