| LC control no. | n 50034439 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3515.I713 |
| Personal name heading | Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 |
| Variant(s) | Himes, Chester, 1909-1984 |
| Associated country | United States France Spain |
| Located | California |
| Birth date | 1909-07-29 |
| Death date | 1984-11-12 |
| Place of birth | Jefferson City (Mo.) |
| Place of death | Teulada (Spain) Moraira (Spain) |
| Field of activity | Suspense fiction Detective and mystery stories |
| Profession or occupation | African American novelists |
| Found in | His If he hollers let him go, 1945: t.p. (Chester B. Himes) His A case of rape, 1984: CIP t.p. (Chester Himes) His The heat's on, 1986: t.p. (Chester Himes) jacket (b. in Jefferson City, Mo., in 1909; in 1928 sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for armed robbery; began writing in prison; released in 1936; lived in California until he left U.S. and made home in Europe; began writing thrillers in Paris and became popular in France and later in America; d. in Spain in 1984) Fantastic Fiction www site, 16 May 2013: Chester Himes (Chester Bomar Himes, born 1909; African American writer of detective novels; moved to Moraira, Spain where he died in 1984) Wikipedia, 8 Feb. 2020 (Chester Himes; Chester Bomar Himes; b. 29 July 1909 in Jefferson City, MO; d. 12 Nov. 1984 in Moraira, Spain; settled permanently in France in the 1950s, lived in Paris and the south of France, moved to Spain in 1969 and lived there until death in 1984) |
| Associated language | eng |
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