Chester B. Himes: A Biography

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Lawrence P. Jackson
Serendipity Literary Agency/W.W. Norton & Co.

He was the twentieth century’s most prolific Black writer yet today he stands largely forgotten. Lawrence P. Jackson uses exclusive interviews and unrestricted access to Himes’s full archives to portray a controversial American writer whose novels unflinchingly confront sex, racism, and Black identity.

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