Dear Chester, Dear John : Letter Between Chester Chimes and John A. Williams
Chester Himes and John A. Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just beginning his writing career. Both men would on to receive international acclaim for their work, including Himes’ Harlem detective novels featuring Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson and Williams’ major novels The Man…