Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909.
Among his best-known thrillers are Blind Man with a Pistol , Cotton Comes to Harlem , The Crazy Kill , A Rage in Harlem , The Real Cool Killers , and The Heat\'s On , all available from Vintage..
He began writing while serving a prison sentence for a jewel theft and published just short of twenty novels before his death in 1984.
Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909