Chapter 2 biography

Chester Hymes (1909-1989) African American writer.He briefly attended and dropped out of Ohio State University, and from late 1928 to 1936 served time in the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery.Shortly before his release from prison, he began writing novels inspired by Dash Hammett's novels.Tired of facing the problem of racial discrimination in the United States, he moved to Paris in 1953 and spent the rest of his life in France and Spain. In 1957, he was invited by a French editor to write an American-style hard-line detective novel, and his career as a detective novel writer began.The first detective novel "For Love of Imabelle" was very popular as soon as it was published. In 1958, it won the French Police Fiction Award.Since then, he has successively written a series of detective novels of the same type. The novels are full of violence, blood and eroticism, and truly depict the world of people of color in Harlem. What they discuss is actually the issue of racial discrimination in the United States; The heroes of the film are two ace detectives of the Harlem Police Department: "Gravedigger" Johns and "Coffin Bucket" Ed.

Important works: "For Love of Imabelle"1957 "The Crazy Kill"1959 "The Heat's On"1966 "Cotton Comes to Harlem"1965 "Blind Man with a Pistol"1969