The Washington Post, February 8th, 1998
YESTERDAY WILL MAKE YOU CRY By Chester Himes Norton. 363 pp. $25 ASIDE FROM Ralph Ellison, African-American novelists coming of age in the 1940s and '50s labored under Richard Wright's large shadow. This was true for Chester Himes more than most. The two men certainly had much in common: They were both difficult, contradictory, impatient, and willing to forsake America's virulent racism for the relative calm of foreign shores. Although Wright's best years were behind him when he set out for Paris in 1946, he quickly established a substantial presence there, associating with the likes of Jean-P...
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