Chester Himes

Chester Himes was an American writer whose 1945 novel If He Hollers Let Him Go is among his best-known works. He is best known for the Harlem Detective series, set in the 1950s and early 1960s, which follows two Black policemen, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. In 1958 Himes won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and some of his works have been filmed. He died in 1984.