More on Chester Himes.

Chester Himes in 1967.
Fotocollectie Anefo,
Dutch National Archives

On UT Austin's Harry Ransom Center Web site, Melanie Alberts highlights a few documents on Chester Himes in the Ransom Center's Knopf archive, concentrating in particular on Himes's novel Lonely Crusade (1947) and his autobiography The Quality of Hurt (1971).