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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
Violet Strange
Gender: Female
Miss Strange is a beautiful, lively, young American woman with a rich father, and who is interested in literature. She has an active social life, but on the quiet is an amateur detective who solves criminal cases she has heard about. The short stories about her by A.K. Green are rather puerile, and Strange behaves like a teenager, but she has been acknowledged as one of the first girl detectives...