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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
Stan (Standish) Rice
Gender: Male
According to author Baynard Kendrick, Miles Standish ‘Stan’ Rice usually introduces himself as ‘Stan Rice – the hungry’. And he certainly can eat, lots, but nevertheless the 190cm-tall sheriff is as thin ‘as a skeleton’. He also has yellowy blonde hair, blue eyes and wears ill-fitting, wrinkled clothes. He is active in Florida, where he solves cases which often include what seem to be supernatural...