All the Rage in Harlem

Blogger Jake Murdock reminds us that today would have been the 100th birthday of African-American author Chester Himes, who wrote the Coffin Ed John and Grave Digger Jones police series as well as other non-crime books. Poet-novelist Ishmael Reed has been quoted as saying that he “taught me the difference between a black detective and Sherlock Holmes.” Himes died in 1984.