Photo: Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images (1970)
Sample of authors
Himes, Chester
Chester Bomar Himes was among the foremost Afro-American authors, especially in terms of the way he wrote about racism in America in all its guises. He caused a great deal of attention as an author of crime fiction in France in the 1950s. However, his stories about the lives of blacks and Latinos living in urban ghettos were not beginning to be discussed seriously in the United States until...
Literary figures
Gabriel Hanaud
Gender: Male
A.E.W. Mason created his French Sûreté detective inspector as opposite to Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Gabriel Hanaud is friendly, well-built and rather plump and has a square face. He speaks English with an entertaining accent. Together with is companion, Ricordo, he solves cases in France as well as England, and is regarded as having been a source of inspiration for writers like Christie and Sim...