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Himes, Chester (Bomar)

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Himes, Chester (Bomar) (1909-1984)

US novelist. After serving seven years in prison for armed robbery, he published his first novel If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945), a powerful depiction of racist victimization set in a Californian shipyard. He later wrote in the crime thriller genre, most notably in The Real Cool Killers (1958), Rage in Harlem (1965), and Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965).

He also published two volumes of autobiography, The Quality of Hurt (1972) and My Life of Absurdity (1976).
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