Chastel, Jean, 279
Cheever, John, 422
Chicago, race riots in, 38
Chicago Defender, 90, 94, 97, 130, 156, 172, 181, 187, 188, 210, 212, 213, 286, 317
Chicago Sun, 207, 240–41
Chicago Tribune, 317, 480
Chink Charlie (pimp), 69
Chopin, Kate, “Dead Men’s Shoes,” 104
Christowe, Stoyan, 243
Cinq Colonnes à la Une (TV), 416, 417, 425
City Without Men (film), 145, 152
Civil War, U.S.:
black troops in, 28
and slavery, 4–5
veterans of, 20
Claasen, Clara, 200–201
Claflin University, 11–12, 13, 14, 24
Clark, Eleanor, 252, 361
Clark, Tom C., 176, 356
Clarke, John Henrik, 488
Clarke, Shirley, 424, 465
Cleaver, Eldridge, xiv, 479
Soul on Ice, 487
Clermont-Tonnerra, Thierry de, 438
Cleveland, 48–49
black ghetto in, 64–65
black migrants in, 50
Depression in, 132
East High School, 52–55, 60, 70, 125
gambling house in, 66–69
Himes family home in, 54, 71
Himes family move to, 47, 49, 70
history of, 124–25, 127, 135
organized crime in, 60, 68–69
prostitution in, 56–57, 69
Recreational Opportunities in Cleveland, 135
Wade Park Manor, 55–56, 58, 66, 111, 113
Woodland Center Neighborhood House, 111
Cleveland, Charles, 3
Cleveland, Elizabeth Bomar, 3
Cleveland, Jesse, 2, 3
Cleveland, Maggie, 3
Cleveland, Malinda, 2–3
Cleveland, Phillis, 3
Cleveland, Robert Easley, 3
Cleveland, Thomas, 3, 6
Cleveland Call and Post, 123, 213
Cleveland News, 136, 170, 238
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 128, 135, 207
Cleveland Press, 118, 131, 243
Cleveland Public Library Project, 124
Cleveland Union Leader, 124
Cleveland Writers’ Project, 229
Clifford, Jay, 462
Cobb, R. E., 19
Cocteau, Jean, 390
Cohn, Arthur, 413, 414, 416, 423
Cohn, Harry, 413
Cohn, Roy, 297
COINTELPRO, 386
Cold War, 321, 332
Cole, William, 239
Coleman, Walter:
on the “Blow,” 373–74
Himes’s friendship with, 296, 353, 438, 445
in Himes’s writings, 496
and race relations, 446
socializing, 296, 353, 379, 381, 385, 387, 463
and Torun, 373, 407, 411, 438, 445, 457
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 4
Collier’s, 92, 116, 119, 152, 154, 263, 278, 334
Columbia Pictures, 152, 413
Commentary, 243–44
Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 182
Committee Against Jim Crow in the Military, 249
Committee for Cultural Freedom, 367
Committee for Equal Justice, 194
Common Ground, 185–86, 188
Communiqué, 155
Communist Party, 182, 368
and blacklist, 155, 243, 297–98
and Ellison, 189, 190, 244
and FBI, 176, 188, 211, 386
and Harrington, 293, 385, 409
and Himes, 149–50, 156, 161–63, 176, 188, 189, 211, 287, 332–33, 398, 420, 447, 450, 472
in Himes’s writing, 162–63, 170, 221, 236–37, 239, 240, 242–43
in Hollywood, 149–50, 150–51, 153, 155, 156, 158, 159–60, 161–63, 243, 249, 420
John Reed Clubs, 150, 298
and New Masses, 132–33, 189, 242–43, 282, 287, 342
and Red Scare, 243, 249, 277, 278, 280, 288, 297, 386
and Trumbo, 150–51, 172
and World War II, 177–78, 214
and Wright, 133, 189, 214, 237, 246, 298
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 124, 131
Political Action Committee, 181–82, 183, 194, 202, 221
United Auto Workers–CIO, 186
Congress View, 214
Connelly, Marc, 154, 172, 198–99
The Green Pastures, 199
Conrad, Earl, 210–11, 231, 245
Conroy, Jack, 199, 216
Contact magazine, 487
Cook, Fannie, 269
Mrs. Palmer’s Honey, 200, 215–17, 221
Cook, Mercer, 366
Cooke, Wilson, 12
Cooper, Anna Julia, 22–23, 24, 34, 120
Cooper, Milton, 347
Copeland, Ernestine, 41–42
Coppola, Francis Ford, 497
CORE, 418
Coronet, 126, 140
Cosmopolitan, 92
Council on Books in Wartime, 201
Coward-McCann, 275, 347, 429
Cowley, Malcolm, 251, 252, 256
Cox, Ida, 27
Creative Writing Forum, 254–55, 259
Crisis, The, 34, 159, 163, 166, 167, 169, 171, 175–76, 177, 183, 197, 207, 263, 366
Crossroad, 128–29, 132
Crown Publishing Group, 376
Cruse, Harold, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, 477
Cuba, 446–47, 450
Cullen, Countee, 202, 205
Curtis, Constance H., 188, 207
Dadié, Bernard, 363
Daily Worker, 214
Dann, Phillip J., Jr., 70
Danzas, Minnie, 378, 387
Davis, Arthur P., 213–14, 317
Davis, Ben, 133, 356
Davis, John, 366
Davis, Ossie, 474, 482–83, 488
Dawson, William L., 107, 183
Dee, Ruby, 488
de Gaulle, Charles, 427, 447
Delaney, Beauford, 361
Dell Publishing Co., 448, 454, 455, 478
Demby, William, 494
De Priest, Oscar Stanton, 62, 63
Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 112
Dett, Nathaniel, 107
Deven, J. Claude, 383
Dexamyl, 278, 286, 304–5, 313, 322, 328, 344, 358
Dial Press, 342, 345, 358, 370
Dickens, Charles, 4
Dickinson, Charles, 124
Die Welt, 395, 428
Diop, Alioune, 405, 428, 451
Dixon, Dean, 410, 439
Dixon, Thomas, The Clansman, 194
Django Unchained (film), 476
Dr. Strangelove (film), 443
Dodd Mead, 140, 144
Dodson, Owen, 190, 205
Dolivet, Louis, 395
Dos Passos, John, 99, 139
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Brothers Karamazov, 305, 443
Doubleday (publisher), 140, 184, 228, 278, 334, 396, 482
and Black Sheep, 144
and Council on Books in Wartime, 201
financial dealings with, 189, 225, 229, 235, 239, 247, 271, 429, 481, 490
and Himes’s detective stories, 492–93
and If He Hollers Let Him Go, xiii, 193, 196, 199, 200–202, 203–5, 213, 215–17, 218, 221, 224, 247, 485
and The Primitive, 342
and The Quality of Hurt, 485
Douglas, Aaron, 181, 186
Douglas, Alta, 186, 190, 191
Drake, St. Clair, 207, 209
Dreiser, Theodore, 172
Du Bois, David, 446
Du Bois, W. E. B., xi, 17, 34, 163, 181, 190, 367, 446
Duchamp, Marcel, Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, 219
Duggan, Laurence, 277
Duhamel, Marcel, 388, 410–11, 494
death of, 495
and detective stories, 329, 372, 376, 387, 388, 394, 410, 411, 456
and Gallimard, 329, 372, 378, 387, 389, 413, 429
and If He Hollers Let Him
Go, 331, 372
and La Reine des pommes, 387, 389, 411
translations by, 218, 328, 331, 372
Duke, 382
Dummy (professional gambler), 69
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, xii
Duncan, Isadora, 362
Duncan, Raymond, 362
Duncan, Robert P., 71
Dunham, Katherine, 297
Durham Herald, 265–66
Durham Sun, 266
Dutton, Lorenzo, 12
Earle, Amaryllis, 3, 4
Earle, O. P., 6
Earle, Theron, 3, 4, 6
East St. Louis, racial violence in, 45
Ebony, 180, 227, 242, 267, 318
Editions Corréa, 267, 279, 287, 326, 331
Editions Les Yeux Ouverts, 437
Editions Plon, 331, 344, 350–51, 379, 382–83, 388, 403, 407, 408, 416, 417, 429, 434, 436, 438
Egypt, racism in, 445
Eighteenth Amendment, 60
Eisenhower administration, 373, 398
Ellington, Duke, 381
Ellison, Fanny, 229, 231–32, 282, 335–36, 488
Ellison, Ralph, xiv, 188–90, 205, 212, 229–32, 282–85, 294, 300
and the blues, 210, 230–31
“Flying Home,” 189
Himes’s contretemps with, 230, 231–32, 283–84, 335, 338, 478–79
and Himes’s writing, 189, 244–45, 283–84, 285, 286, 306, 318, 365, 370, 488
influence of, 229–31, 298, 444, 480–81
Invisible Man, 245, 274–75, 283, 288, 306, 309–10, 391, 477, 479
“King of the Bingo Game,” 189
and matriarchal black families, 231
and National Book Award, 283, 288, 355
and New Masses, 282
on race relations, 218–19, 230, 283
and Rome Prize, 421–22
socializing, 229–30, 335–36, 365
and stylistic development, 282–83
“Twentieth Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity,” 234
and Wright, 189, 209–10, 218, 231, 283, 284–85, 299, 365, 367, 479
Embassy Pictures, 422
Embree, Edwin R., 138, 169
Epps, Harold, 266
Escape from Crime (film), 145, 152
Esquire, 99–105, 107, 112, 114, 117, 120, 126, 131, 140, 152, 158, 167, 174, 204, 218, 237, 342, 345, 374–75, 396, 428
Fabre, Michel, 493
Fair, Ronald, 479
Fairclough, Lewis, 186
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), 130, 182
Fair Play for Cuba Committee, 393, 430
Falcon Press, 307
Fanon, Frantz, 403
Black Skins, White Masks, 368
Farrelly, John, 240
Faulkner, William, 136, 239, 309, 324, 388, 482
Light in August, 253, 321
Sanctuary, 376, 381
Fausett, Arthur Huff, 153
Fawcett Publications, 384
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 150, 176, 188, 198, 211, 297–98, 386, 419, 423, 470, 472
Federal Writers Project (FWP), 122–25, 128, 135, 154
Fellini, Federico, 403
Ferber, Edna, Show Boat, 145
Ferguson, O. W., 25
Fernandez de Castro, Jose Antonio, 190
Feux Croisés (Crossfire) series, 344, 382–83
F.G. Short and Sons, 326, 330, 347
Finley, Glenn, 256
Finn, Jonathan, 107
First Amendment, 321–22
Fischer, Otto, 374, 375, 400
Fischer, Regine, 366, 374–76, 391, 434
affair with Himes, 359–60, 361, 363–64, 375–76, 379–81, 382, 383, 387, 389, 390, 392–95, 399–401, 402–3, 409–10
family of, 370, 374, 375, 393–94, 400
and Harrington, 359, 360, 364, 374, 379
Himes’s mistreatment of, 379–80, 399–400
and Himes’s writing, 370, 375, 379, 394–95, 402, 407–8, 428, 468, 488, 495
suicide attempts/threats of, 374, 399–400, 401, 403
Fisher, Isaac, 38–39
Fisher, Rudolph, 206, 212
Fitzgerald, Ella, 256
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 100, 390
Fleming, Ian, 460
Ford, Henry, 30
Forks, Jackie, 243
Forum, 243
Foster, Louis, 243
Four-Four (professional gambler), 69
Fox, Milton, 128
Foxx, Redd, 483
Frabel, Gill, 75
France:
and Algeria, 354, 362, 385, 394, 402, 404, 405, 427, 437, 465
and anti-colonialism, 354, 362–63, 373, 385, 397, 427, 437, 465
exceptionalism of, 451
and Indo-China, 326, 356
racism in, 362, 381, 426–27, 437–39, 453
right-wing terrorists in, 426–27
sales of Himes’s books in, 431
see also Paris
France-USA, 330
Franco, Gen. Francisco, 472
Franco-American Fellowship, 298
Franklin, Benjamin, 219
Franklin County Jail, Columbus, Ohio, 70–72
Frazier, E. Franklin, 212–13, 230, 231, 234, 367
The Black Bourgeoisie, 301, 426
Frazier, Marie, 301
Freedman’s Bureau, 13
Freeman, Albert, 86
Freeman, Walter, 337, 342, 345–46, 371, 374
Friede, Donald, 309, 311, 325
Fuller, Hoyt, 474, 478, 479
Future Outlook League, 124, 127, 131
Second Anniversary Yearbook, 131
Gaisseau, Dominique-Pierre, 412, 413–15, 416–17, 418, 422, 423, 425, 429, 483
Galewska sisters, 309
Gallimard, publishers, 327, 328, 329, 351, 371, 372, 378, 379, 381, 386, 387, 389, 410, 411, 412–13, 414, 429
Gandhi, and civil disobedience, 249
García Lorca, Federico, 322
Garvey, Marcus, 433
Gassaway, Harold, 122
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 489
Gayle, Addison, 479, 488
The Black Aesthetic, 486
Genet, Jean, 370
Gentry, Herb, 459
George Washington Carver Book Award, 185, 199, 200, 205, 215
Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth, Savannah, 12–13, 15, 16, 17–18, 22, 24
GI Bill, 243, 279, 445
Gibson, Richard, 286, 353, 354, 361–63, 373, 385–86, 393, 430, 471–72
African Liberation Movements, 472
A Mirror for Magistrates, 361, 386
“A No to Nothing,” 362
Gillespie, Dizzy, 148
Gilpin Players, 112
Gingrich, Arnold, 99, 100–101, 104, 114, 126, 152, 170–71, 172, 342, 345, 374–75, 428, 486
Ginsberg, Allen, 364
Giono, Jean, 390, 392, 393
Un Roi sans divertissement, 389
Giovanni, Nikki, 479, 487, 489
Girls Camp, Jean’s job with, 233–34
Girodias, Maurice, 408, 409, 410, 412, 454–55
Gogol, “The Overcoat,” 109
Goines, Donald, White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s Grief, 484
Goldwater, Barry, 448
Goldwyn, Samuel, Jr., 460, 463, 465, 466, 469–70, 474, 480, 484
Goode, Wilson, 476
Gordon, Eugene, 214
Gorky, Maksim, 100
G. P. Putnam, publishers, 268, 441, 448, 454, 456, 458, 469, 482, 486
Granger, Lester, 189, 402
Graves, Robert, 322–23
Gray, Jesse, 444
Great Depression, 90, 97, 109, 114, 123, 129, 132, 147, 169, 177, 426
Greenlee, Sam, 479
Green Pastures (drama), 154
Greenwood, Marianne, 411–12, 414, 421, 428–29, 432–33, 434, 435, 436
The Tattooed Heart of Livingstone, 432
Gregoire, Henri, An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literat
ure of Negroes, 14
Gregory, Dick, 426, 457
Grotia, Lillie, 39
Guérin, Daniel, 303, 360, 461, 462
Guggenheimer, Ida, 244–45
Gullah dialect, 32
Guy, Rosa, 488
Haines Normal and Industrial School, Augusta, Georgia, 31–32
Hair (musical), 482
Haley, Alex, 453, 487
Hammett, Dashiell, 100, 228, 372, 443
Hammond, Grace, 25
Hancock, John, 291
Hansberry, Lorraine, 412, 415
Hara Kiri, 458
Harlem Renaissance, 103, 234
Harlem Writers Guild, 488
Harlequin, 275
Harmonique Five, 90
Harper’s Bazaar, 352
Harper, Toi and Emerson, 190
Harper and Brothers, 301
Harrington, Oliver:
and Fischer, 359, 360, 364, 374, 379
and Gibson, 361, 362, 373
Himes’s friendship with, 355–57, 362, 393, 394, 404, 405, 409, 412, 470
and Himes’s writing, 355, 369, 385, 407
in Paris, 296, 353, 362, 373
socializing, 190, 293, 297, 387, 395, 397
and World War II, 356
Harris, Charles, 480
Hart, Albert Bushnell, 8
Harvard Lampoon, 355
Hastie, William, 182
Hatcher, Harlan, 124
Hate That Hate Produced, The (TV), 418
Hawkins, George, 143
Haydn, Hiram, The Time Is Noon, 259
Hayes, Roland, 154, 171
Haygood, Vandi, 314
affair with Himes, 198, 276–78, 279, 280–81, 283, 284–86, 290, 297, 302, 305, 307, 319, 343, 360, 361
and Cayton, 282, 289
death of, 344, 358
and Ellison, 283, 365, 478
and Himes’s writing, 200, 202, 319, 344, 465
problems with Himes, 278, 281, 284, 285–86, 380
and Rosenwald Fund, 169, 174–75, 197, 198, 277, 283
socializing, 169, 191, 488
Haygood, William Converse, 138, 169, 229, 232, 234, 235, 316
Haynes, Leroy, 302, 365, 409, 468
Healey, Dorothy, 160
Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 420
Hemingway, Ernest, xii, 120, 134, 136, 139, 230, 329, 344
and Esquire magazine, 99–100, 101
A Farewell to Arms, 107
“Fifty Grand,” 99
For Whom the Bell Tolls, 139
“The Killers,” 99
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” 100
The Sun Also Rises, 61, 99, 196
“The Trademan’s Return,” 117
Henderson, William, 61, 64, 66
Henry, O., xi, 91, 99, 103, 107
Henry Holt, publisher, 260, 266
Henry J. Kaiser Shipyard, 153
Hersey, John, 422
Hicks, Granville, 251
Highsmith, Patricia, 253–54, 260, 311, 461–62
Strangers on a Train, 253
Hill, Herbert, 408–9, 422–24
Hillman, Sidney, 181–82
Himes, family name of, 9, 505
Himes, Andrew (uncle), 10, 49, 51, 56
Himes, Anna Robinson, 9, 10
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