Chester Himes

[Pink Gregory]

Anyone like?

I picked up a Rage in Harlem pretty much on a whim about 10 years ago and read the Penguin Modern Classic editions of the Harlem novels (All Shot Up, The Heat's On, the Real Cool Killers, Cotton Comes to Harlem), then I found a copy of his first novel (If He Hollers Let Him Go) and a short story collection; and unwittingly read, far as I'm aware, most of his stuff.

Never really heard anyone talk about him or put him in a historical context.