[lentulusgracchus]

I'm unfamiliar with Chester Himes. Ellison was required reading in many places in the 60's. I read him in 1969, when I was picking up my one last needed English credit which my advisor had overlooked before completing my degree requirements. That one last semester put me in the Navy not the Army, and sent me to the Atlantic Fleet instead of Vietnam, where the shriveled-up old man-hater down at the Draft Board fully intended I should go.

[wtc911]

Chester Himes....a Black Raymond Chandler with a sense of humor. He wrote 'Blind Man with a Pistol' and 'Cotton Comes to Harlem' among others. Worth checking out for a look at that world in that time.