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Abbott, Robert Sengstacke, 94
Abbott’s Monthly, 92, 94, 95, 187
Abie the Jew (gambler), 69
Académie Française, 390
Actors’ Lab, 198
Adam, 448
Africa:
Bantu peoples of, 475
decolonization in, 403, 472
Himes’s travel to, 445, 446–47
Sharpeville massacre, 476
African Americans:
and American pop culture, 173–74
and assimilation, 260
attitudes toward white people, 24, 119–20, 217, 276, 418–19, 424
and “Back to Africa” movement, 419, 420–21, 433
black history studies, 42
black nationalism, 420–21, 484
and “black revolution,” 479
as blacks, xv, 22, 268, 391
and blaxploitation films, 476, 483–84
and the blues, 230–31, 416
“Buy Black” movement, 419
civil rights for, see United States
and Communist Party, 151, 153, 214, 239, 242–43, 244, 246
and culture, 14, 22
dealings with white people, 19, 36–37, 210, 303, 322, 336–39, 369, 410, 424, 426, 444, 464, 467
discrimination against, 8, 12, 14, 61–64, 100–101, 124, 126–27, 130, 148–49, 154–56, 163–64, 171, 191, 201, 223, 236, 265, 283, 310, 422, 444, 464, 497
domestic abuse of, 285
and double V, 153–54, 161, 171
and drugs, 426
educated elite of, 191
education of, 7, 11–14, 21, 22, 25, 28–30, 32, 35, 38–43, 46, 60, 61, 243, 275, 426, 427
and exceptionalism, 14, 22–23
extramarital affairs of, 184
family relations of, 213, 231, 278–79, 280, 300, 380
and FBI, 176, 188, 297–98, 423, 470, 472
and films, 476, 483–84; see also specific films
and generation gap, 164
and gradualism, 265
housing for, 132, 151, 160, 222, 243, 269
and industrialization, 25, 30, 243, 246, 476
interracial salons, 182
and interracial sex, see race
invisibility of, 467
and Jim Crow, 12, 15, 18, 36–37, 96, 104, 123–24, 149, 160, 205, 216, 249, 251–52, 263, 356
and Ku Klux Klan, 423, 426
lynching of, 18, 31, 36, 118, 153
medical treatments denied to, 43–44, 57, 265
New Negroes, 63, 208
pan-African militancy of, 362–63, 476
percentages in penitentiaries, 79
and police, 158, 467–68
and political action, 181–83, 283
and prostitution, 56–57
in publishing industry, 481–82
punishment for overambition, 44
race riots, 19, 38, 165–66, 170, 425–26, 443–44, 448, 465, 467–68, 469, 473, 474
racial identity of, xii, xv, 24, 112, 113, 116, 119, 120, 125, 131, 175–76, 177, 230, 231, 268, 275, 284, 289, 319, 338, 391, 447, 476; see also race
racial oppression against, 18–19, 63, 138, 141, 177, 255, 426, 439, 444–45, 454
and Red Summer (1919), 38
religious fervor of, 34–35, 36
scapegoats of, 47, 70–71
segregation, xv, 10, 18, 36, 62–63, 125, 159–60, 167, 168, 186, 198, 233, 242, 246, 251, 265, 266, 288, 354, 427, 431
skin tones of, xiv, 18, 23–25, 63, 65, 72, 116, 242, 367, 447
and slavery, see slavery
Southern Uncle Tom traditions, 37, 58, 163, 172, 269, 295, 339
speech patterns of, 27–28, 29, 32, 51, 79, 197, 198, 218
stereotypes of, 37, 58, 121, 136, 155, 160, 163, 172, 186, 194, 313, 337, 391, 410, 425, 432, 465, 480
submissiveness required of, 116, 163
Underground Railroad, 235
violence against, 18–19, 45, 186, 438, 467–68, 480, 497
violence promoted by, 167, 170, 419–20, 423, 443, 449, 467
voting rights of, 118, 128, 182
westward migration of (exodusters), 14, 19, 25, 147, 199, 243
and white supremacy, 185–86, 397, 480, 482
work available to, 122–24, 127, 130, 131, 143, 148, 153, 157, 160, 162, 173, 174, 177, 178, 182, 221, 243, 246, 269, 271, 275, 444–45
writers, xiv, 14, 15, 94, 185, 188, 190, 192, 209–10, 214, 218–20, 224, 230–32, 236, 250, 263, 264–65, 269, 284, 288, 299–301, 306, 317–18, 324, 344, 390, 406, 408, 409, 422, 424, 431–32, 439, 471, 477, 480–82, 486–87, 491; see also specific writers
African nationalism, 332
Afro-American, 178, 220, 244, 444
Agence France-Presse, 385
Aistrop, Jack, 232
Akers, Lee, 87
Albert, Alan, 462
Albin Michel, 218, 328, 332
Alcorn, James A., 28
Alcorn College, Mississippi, 27, 28–31, 33–34, 36, 37, 89, 312
Alexander, R. M., 8
Alexander, Will W., 182
Alfred A. Knopf, see Knopf, Alfred A., Inc.
Algeria, and anti-colonialism, 354, 362–63, 385, 402, 427, 448, 449, 452, 465
Allen, Benjamin F., 19–20, 21, 25
Allen, Julia, 23
Alliance Française, 380–81
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 181
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 365, 421–22, 484
American Book Award, 497
American Magazine, 119
Ames, Elizabeth, 250–52, 256, 257–58
Amistad I, 478, 482
Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, 498
Amos ’n’ Andy (radio), xiv
Amsterdam News, 103, 188, 206, 240, 249, 483, 487
Amussen, Ted, 266
Anderson, Eddie “Rochester,” 155
Angelou, Maya, 446, 451, 479, 484, 485, 494
Angry Black, The (anthology), 431
Aragon, Louis, 443
Arche, 443
Arendt, Hannah, 219
Aristotle, 282
Armine, Alice, 105
Armstrong, Louis, 381
Arnett, William, 14
Arvin, Newton, 251
Aswell, Edward, 409
Atlanta, race riots in, 19, 38
Atlanta Daily World, 92, 97
Atlantic Monthly, 189, 243
Attaway, William, 205
Attucks, Crispus, 175
Augusta, Georgia, fire in, 32–33
Authors League, 233, 237
Avon Publications, 441
Azikwe, Namdi, 332
Bacall, Lauren, 139
Bachelor, 117
“Back to Africa” movement, 419, 420–21, 433
Bain, Myra, 487
Baker, Josephine, 62, 489
Baldwin, James, 196, 361, 366, 391, 442–43, 489
Another Country, 442
“Everybody’s Protest Novel,” 288
The Fire Next Time, 442
Giovanni’s Room, 358, 370
Go Tell It on the Mountain, 298–99, 300, 301, 306
and Himes’s writing, 250, 299, 479–80, 492
influence of, 299, 431
“Many Thousands Gone,” 288, 299, 301
and Wright, 298–301, 303, 353, 405, 470, 478, 492
Bambara, Toni Cade, 488, 494
Bantu peoples, 475
Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 474, 482
Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, 44
Barnett, Benny, 69, 70, 72, 74
Barrett, Lindsey, Lip Skybound, 486
Barry, Naomi, 408
Bass, Charlotta, 151, 161, 166, 173
Battle of Seven Pines, 5
Beacon Press, 363
Bearden, Romare, 459
Beat Generation, 364, 388
Beauvoir, Simone de, 295
The Second Sex, 302
Beck, Robert, xiv
Before Columbus Foundation, 496, 497
Bennett, Gwendolyn, 206
Berkley Books, 341, 348, 372–73, 425
Bertel (painter), 353, 359, 369
Best Short Stories 1940, The (O’Brien, ed.), 134
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 7, 8, 51, 118, 181
Beti, Mongo, 398
King Lazarus, 368
Mission to Kala, 368
Poor Christ of Bomba, 368
“Romancing Africa,” 368
Bilbo, Theodore, 36, 510
Birmingham, Alabama, bombing of Baptist Church in, 438
Black American Academy of Arts and Letters, 484
Black Citizens Patrol, 480
Black Mask, 92
blacks, see African Americans
Black World (formerly Negro Digest), 478
Blassingame, Lurton:
Chicken Every Sunday, 159
and Himes’s writing, 225, 227, 234, 247, 267, 270, 342, 344–45
Bloom, Leonard, 232
“Blow” (confidence-man scheme), 373–74, 376, 377
Blues People, 430
Blum, Suzanne, 403
Bogart, Humphrey, 139, 267
Bomar, Charles, 5–6
Bomar, Elias, 1, 3, 4, 5–6, 503
Bomar, Elisha, 2, 4
Bomar, Estelle, see Himes, Estelle Bomar
Bomar, Gertrude, 15, 16
Bomar, Hattie, 7, 8
Bomar, John Earle, 3, 4, 5, 503
Bomar, John, Jr., 3
Bomar, Mabel, 31
Bomar, Malinda Cleveland, 2–3, 5
Bomar, Margaret, 31
Bonelli, Eddie, 248, 260, 264
Bontemps, Arna, 199, 215, 216, 240
Book Find Club, 309
Book-of-the-Month Club, 209, 288, 309, 311
Bootsie (cartoon), 356
Bosscheres, Guy de, 439
Boston Globe, 317
Boucher, Anthony, 396, 459–60
Bourdel, Maurice, 351, 382, 383
Bourge, Serge, 395
Boutelleau, Jessie, 328
Bowles, Paul, The Sheltering Sky, 339, 374
Bowron, Fletcher, 165
Boyd, Melba, 489
Branch Normal, Arkansas, 38–43, 44, 46, 55
Brandt, Carl, 428, 431, 434
Brantley, George, 46
Brawley, Benjamin, A Short History of the American Negro, 42
Breton, André, 372
Bricker, John, 128
Brierre, Annie, 330–31, 344, 350–51, 359
Bright, John, 151, 202, 205
Brisville, Jean-Claude, 331
Broadside Press, 489
Broadway Rose (prisoner), 85
Broady, Charles, 158, 376
Bromfield, Louis, 138–39, 141, 142–46, 148, 158, 223, 250
Bromfield, Mary, 144
Brooks, Gwendolyn, Maud Martha, 306
Browder, Earl, 159, 214
Brown, Athay, 93
Brown, Cecil, The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, 482
Brown, Claude, xiv, 444
Manchild in the Promised Land, 460
Brown, Daisy, 1
Brown, Lloyd, 242–43, 342
Brown, Sterling, 1, 120–22, 123, 124, 134, 158, 163, 205, 230
Southern Road, 120
Brown, Walker, 93
Browning, Alice, 174, 190, 196
Brownsville, Texas, racial violence in, 19
Brown v. Board of Education, xiv, 151, 465
Bryant, Walter, 353
Buchergilde Gutenberg, 435
Bucino, Frank, 258–59
Buck, Pearl, 189
Buford, Fanny, 190
Bulkley, E. D., 15, 16, 20
Bullins, Ed, 488
Bülow-Hübe, Torun, 373, 381, 407, 411, 438, 445, 457, 459, 466
Bunche, Ralph, 213, 353
Burke, Kenneth, 244
Burley, Dan, 190, 205, 206
Original Handbook of Harlem Jive, 197
Burroughs, William, 364
Burton, Harold, 132
Byrnes, Charles, 372
Cabin in the Sky (film), 154, 156
Caddoo, Emile, 430
Caddoo, Joyce, 430–31, 436, 465, 466
Cagney, James, 172
Cain, James M., 208
Cain family, 23
Caldwell, Erskine, 99, 329
California:
behind the times, 148–49
exodusters’ move to, 147
Jean and Chester’s trip to, 222, 223–24
California Eagle, 151, 166, 167, 173
California Sanitary Canning Company, 148
Calloway, Cab, 197
Cambridge, Godfrey, 480
Campbell, E. Simms, 100, 107
Camus, Albert, 219, 324
Myth of Sisyphus, 231
Candide, 426
Cannes Film Festival, 412, 438
Cannon, Poppy, 184, 357
Cannon, Steve, 479, 488, 494
Capone, Al, 68
Capote, Truman, Other Voices, Other Rooms, 261
Carolina Spartan, 4
Carter, Edward, 150
Carter, Phil, 156
Caruso, Enrico, 35
Carver, George Washington, 199
Castle on the Hudson (film), 145
Castro, Fidel, 446–47
Cathcart, Ida, 7
Cau, Jean, 390
Cavanaugh, Inez, 381
Cayton, Horace, 207, 245, 274, 338, 370
on black identity, 230, 231, 284, 289
on Himes’s writing, 238
and Parkway Community House, 169, 248–49
“Race Conflict in Modern Society,” 254, 255
socializing, 209, 212, 252, 259, 282, 283, 289, 335
Cayton, Ruby, 259
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 367, 405
Césaire, Aimé, 428, 451
Chalked Out (film), 107
Chamberlain, Wilt, 417
Chambers, Whittaker, 277
Chambrun, Jacques, 134
Chandler, Merrill, 94
Chandler, Raymond, 228, 372
Chandleri, Jean, 385
Chappel, Helen, 167
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 Literature 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
Himes, Bennie (uncle), 10
Himes, Chester B.:
accidents of (in Paris), 412–13
affairs, 183–84, 191, 197, 255, 276, 339–40, 360, 380, 428, 432, 435, 436, 443, 467, 488; see also specific names
aging, 381, 383, 434, 435–36, 443, 454, 457, 461, 463, 464, 465, 466, 471, 478, 487, 493–94, 496–97
and alcohol, 179, 180–81, 187, 191, 210, 233, 235, 284, 377, 379–80, 383, 385, 394, 395, 402, 410, 412, 415, 424, 440, 466
as author, see Himes, Chester B., writings of
awards and honors to, 391, 392, 477, 497
birth and background of, 1–21, 37
carrying a gun, 72–73, 75–76
childhood of, 2, 23–24, 26, 28, 29, 32–33, 35, 36, 37, 39, 106
in Cleveland, 49–60, 64–65, 66–70, 111
in Columbus, 60–64, 65–66, 70, 109–11
and Communist Party, 149–50, 156, 161–63, 176, 188, 189, 211, 242–43, 287, 332–33, 398, 420, 447, 450, 472
criminal activities of, 68–69, 70, 72, 74–76, 486
death of, 498
and drugs, 111, 253, 278, 286, 304–5, 313, 322, 328, 336, 358, 424
elevator injury of (in Cleveland), 57–60, 61, 64, 66, 173, 174
as ex-convict, 109–12, 113–14, 116, 117, 119, 121, 122, 126, 187, 238, 246, 254, 260–62, 270–71, 280, 285, 287, 288–89, 294, 459, 484, 489
and FBI, 188, 198, 211, 419
and film industry, 423–25, 429, 436, 439, 460–61, 463, 465, 469, 473–74, 479–80, 482–84, 497
finances of, 45, 114, 124, 148, 157, 174, 229, 233, 257, 258, 263–64, 267, 269–70, 271–72, 282, 287, 307, 311, 312, 314, 315, 318, 321, 323, 326, 327, 329, 330, 332, 335, 338, 341–42, 346, 347–48, 355, 364, 366, 379, 384, 407, 408, 411, 412–13, 416, 429, 433, 434–36, 454–55, 456, 461–62, 465, 466, 472, 486, 496–97
in France, xiii; see also Paris
in Franklin County Jail, 70–72, 74
grant applications of, 169, 170–71, 174–75, 248, 260; see also Julius Rosenwald Fund
health issues of, 64, 434, 435–36, 443, 489, 490, 492, 493–94, 496, 497
as iconoclast, xiii–xiv, 260, 269
influence of, xv, 450–51, 452, 470–71, 479–80, 484, 485–86, 487–89, 494, 495
IQ scores of, 53, 61, 80
Jaguar purchased by, 458, 475
leaving the U.S., xiii, 245, 279, 348–49, 436–37, 439
legacy of, xv, 406, 491
and Lesley, see Packard, Lesley
light skin of, 65, 72
loss of confidence, 271, 272–73, 275, 285, 303, 309–10, 316, 318, 319–20, 334
marriage to Jean, 115–16, 123, 126, 128, 164–65, 174, 178–79, 184, 187, 197, 202, 210, 258, 260, 267, 272–73, 274, 281, 290, 496; see also Johnson, Jean Lucinda
in messy love triangles, 302, 333, 340, 343, 360, 379, 380, 392–93, 395, 399–400, 457
name of, 503
and nihilism, 104
in Ohio State Penitentiary, xi, xii; see also Ohio State Penitentiary
and Ohio State University, 55, 60–64, 65–66, 280
overconfidence of, 280–81, 309
personal traits of, 58, 59, 60, 72, 74, 127, 128, 146, 187, 198, 294, 345, 380, 458–59, 461, 462–63, 471
and prostitutes, 56–57, 59, 60, 64, 65, 111, 339
rage of, 46–47, 130–31, 160, 167, 177, 179, 290, 294, 323, 332, 349, 355, 380, 466
reasons for writing, xii, 250
rebelliousness of, 53, 55, 60
and Regine, see Fischer, Regine
reputation of, xiii, 210, 217, 235, 245, 359, 360, 363, 367, 376, 391, 394, 395, 397–98, 406, 407, 411, 425, 438–39, 448–49, 457, 461, 464, 478–79, 480, 481, 483, 484, 489, 491, 495
and Rosenwald Fund, see Julius Rosenwald Fund
schooling of, 29, 32, 35, 39–43, 46–47, 55, 66
self-pity of, 178–79, 248, 249, 255–56, 267, 400, 494
self-realization of, 256–57, 271, 273, 290, 317, 319, 355, 392, 446
survival instincts of, 262–63
at Sussex Village, New Jersey, 258–59
as teenager, 44–45, 46–47, 49–76, 79, 81
undisciplined actions of, 54, 69, 70–71, 72, 73, 79, 111, 116, 187, 191, 202, 208, 210, 233, 255–57, 258, 259, 269, 281–82, 283, 284–85, 322, 343, 350, 355, 379–80
using people and being used, 60, 257, 270, 273, 276, 278, 279–80, 281–82, 288, 290, 321, 334–35, 339, 343–44, 345, 361, 369, 400, 407–8, 409, 435, 470, 471, 496
and Willa, see Thompson, Willa
on workman’s compensation, 58, 59, 60, 90, 110
at Yaddo, 250–58
Himes, Chester B., writings of:
“All God’s Chillun Got Pride,” 128, 168, 176–77
“All He Needs Is Feet,” 168, 171–72
All Shot Up, 394, 401
audience for, 236, 268, 281, 286, 306, 325, 341, 345, 366, 371, 396, 425, 437, 443, 459, 465, 483, 495–96
autobiography/memoir, 31, 33, 88, 91, 93, 116, 122, 169, 179, 181, 242, 258, 260, 263, 267, 268, 270–71, 273, 275–76, 278–79, 286, 305–6, 380, 425, 427–28, 440, 443, 461, 465, 467, 468, 476–78, 480–82, 485–88, 490, 492, 493–96, 505–6, 532
Baby Sister (screenplay), 259, 414–15, 416, 417, 422–23, 424, 429, 482, 491
Back to Africa (book), 429, 433, 439
Back to Africa (screenplay), 416
The Big Gold Dream, 390, 393
Black Boogie Woogie, 282, 318, 325
“The Black Man Has Red Blood,” 97
Black on Black, 482, 490–91
Black Sheep, 89, 144, 260, 261–62, 266, 269
Blind Man with a Pistol, 152, 414, 455, 469, 471, 477, 491
“Boomerang,” 342
Brown’s advice about, 121–22
cannibalism in, 415
A Case of Rape, 369–73, 376, 404, 437, 471, 480
Cast the First Stone, 81, 87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 98, 105, 106, 133, 275–76, 280, 286–87, 288, 313, 318, 323, 328, 329, 330, 345, 347–48, 362, 425
and censorship, 345, 477, 485
Come Back Charleston Blue, 484
The Cops and the Cotton, 439–40
The Cord (later The Third Generation), 278–79, 280–81, 283–85, 287, 301, 305–6, 311, 312
Cotton Comes to Harlem, 254, 420–21, 433–34, 441, 448, 452, 457–58, 460, 461, 463, 465, 466, 469, 474, 480, 482–83, 484, 486
“Crazy in Stir,” 101–2, 159, 424
The Crazy Kill, 459
“A Cup of Tea,” 96, 97
“Da-Da-Dee,” 256
Day After Day, 117
Debt of Time, 275
“Democracy Is for the Unafraid,” 185–86, 265–66
detective fiction, xiii, xiv-xv, 69, 88, 329–30, 372, 374–78, 381–85, 389–91, 394, 396, 402, 414, 426, 428, 429, 433, 443, 455, 456, 457, 461, 467, 468, 475, 477, 491–93, 494
development of, 95–96, 103, 108, 113, 121–22, 164, 177, 317–18, 323, 461
“Did You Ever Catch a Moon”/”A Nigger,” 117
discipline in, xiii, 104, 107, 118–19, 135, 166, 167, 433, 463, 476
dishonesty in, 263
Don’t Play with Death, 394
“E.55th–Central,” 137
The End of a Primitive, 267, 281, 320–24, 326–31, 335, 337, 341, 351, 371, 479, 532
“Every Opportunity,” 113, 117
“Face in the Moonlight,” 140
film treatments, 395, 402, 412, 413, 414–17, 425, 429, 460, 463, 466, 469
The Five Cornered Square, 374, 377, 378, 384
“Flood of Tears,” 276
For Love of Imabelle, 69, 377, 381, 384, 424, 441, 463
“Harlem, or, an American Cancer,” 425–26, 428, 437
The Heat’s On, 402, 410, 458, 459, 484
“Heaven Has Changed,” 163–64
“Her Whole Existence,” 94
“His Last Day,” 92, 93
homosexuality as theme in, 254, 261–62, 286–87
If He Hollers Let Him Go, xiii, xiv, 174, 192–97, 200, 203–9, 213–18, 221, 222, 224, 229, 243, 245, 247, 259, 260, 268, 278, 296, 299, 319, 321, 328, 331, 332, 345, 347, 366, 368, 372, 383, 396, 397, 418, 437, 441, 447, 448, 461, 463, 473, 479–80, 481, 485, 491
If Trouble Was Money, 381
Immortal Mammy, 234–35, 247–49, 257, 259, 272, 371
“In the Night,” 162–63
It Rained Five Days, 330
A Jealous Man Can’t Win, 384–85, 387
“Journey Out of Fear,” 262–63
La Croisade de Lee Gordon (translation), 272, 287
La Fin d’un primitif, 351, 365
La Reine des pommes (The Queen of Apples), 378–79, 387–89, 390, 391, 396, 397, 398, 411, 413, 414, 440, 455, 458
La Troisième Génération, 438
“Let Me at the Enemy—an’ George Brown,” 197
literary reviews, 132–33, 173, 461
Lonely Crusade, xiii, xiv, 67–68, 92, 145–46, 160, 226–27, 231–46, 247–50, 257, 263, 265, 267, 272, 279–80, 281, 287–89, 306, 312, 313, 316, 321, 325, 328, 331, 341, 342, 370, 383, 396, 422–23, 432, 436, 470, 473, 478, 491, 497
“Looking Down the Street,” 128, 132
“Lunching at the Ritzmore,” 163
“Make with a Shape,” 197
“The Mall, From Rockwell,” 136
“Mama’s Missionary Money,” 263
Mamie Mason, 355, 357–59, 360–61, 363, 366, 370–71, 376, 388, 403, 407–8, 416, 417, 438
“Marihuana and a Pistol,” 131–32
“Maud,” 352, 355
“The Mice and the Cheese,” 444
“A Modern Fable,” 129
“A Modern Marriage,” 94
“Money Don’t Spend in Stir,” 174–75
My Life of Absurdity, 380, 428, 493, 494–95, 498
My People, My People, 325–26, 458
“Negro Martyrs Are Needed,” 175–76, 221
Ne nous énervons pas!, 410, 414
“Night of Manhood,” 382
“A Night of New Roses,” 191
“The Night’s for Crying,” 92, 93, 113, 158
“Now Is the Time! Here Is the Place!,” 161–62
on Oedipus complex, 268, 280
“On the Use of Force,” 467
personal catharsis via, 323, 324
Pinktoes, 186, 355, 408, 409, 410, 412, 422, 431, 441, 448, 452, 454–55, 461, 465, 468, 529
Plan B, 475–76
“Playhouse Square,” 136
political theory in, 175–76
and pornography, 319–22, 324, 408
The Primitive, xiv, 256, 270, 284, 289, 341–42, 345, 347–48, 352, 353, 360, 367, 371, 374, 379, 382, 425, 441, 448, 464–65, 473
in prison, see Ohio State Penitentiary
“the prison manuscript,” 136, 138, 139–41, 144, 149, 152, 233, 254, 267, 269, 275–76, 280
“Prison Mass,” 95, 99, 102, 105, 159
The Quality of Hurt, 93, 380, 485–89, 505, 532
race and social class in, xiii, xiv, 168, 169, 173–74, 175–77, 457–58, 465, 476, 491, 494, 495
Race, Sex and War, 181
A Rage in Harlem, 377, 391, 396, 400, 408, 441, 448
The Real Cool Killers, 381–82, 420
Retour en Afrique, 441, 447
Run Man Run, 389, 458, 478, 491
“A Salute to the Passing,” 113, 128, 134
“Scram!,” 117
“Shaker Square,” 137
S’il braille lâche-le, 331
Silver Altar (coauthor), see Thompson, Willa
“The Snake,” 311, 342, 345, 374–75, 396
“The Something in a Colored Man,” 218
“The Song Says ‘Keep on Smiling,’ ” 197
“So Softly Smiling,” 168
“Spanish Gin,” 342
“Stool Pigeon,” 254
“Strictly Business,” 132, 158
style of, 96, 120, 123, 144, 170, 192–96, 203, 228, 244, 246, 268, 305, 321, 325, 358, 371, 376, 377–78, 455, 461, 477, 494, 495
successes of, 97, 98, 134, 138, 166, 189, 203, 213–14, 218, 286, 371, 376, 383–84, 391, 393, 457, 458, 472, 482, 492, 494
“That Summer in Bed,” 342
“These People Never Die,” 249
“The Things You Do,” 140
The Third Generation, xiv, 31, 51–52, 56, 58, 59, 66, 263, 268–69, 270, 276, 278–79, 287, 299, 300, 301, 312, 313, 315, 317, 318, 320, 321, 323, 324, 326, 328, 330, 331, 335, 348, 350, 366, 368, 374, 382–83, 390, 396, 441, 448, 458, 494, 505–6
“To What Red Hell,” 87, 89, 101, 103, 159, 391
Trouble Wears a Skirt, 372
“Two Soldiers,” 163
An Uncle Tom You Never Knew, 259–60
Une Affaire de viol, 437, 439, 458, 468, 493
“The Visiting Hour,” 113–14
The Way It Was, 461
white characters in, 99, 101, 104, 237, 491
“With Malice Toward None,” 123, 128, 129
Yesterday Will Make You Cry, 73–74, 81, 87–88, 141, 221–22, 224–25, 234, 254, 267, 268, 276
Himes, Edward (brother), 321, 491
birth and childhood of, 16, 26, 30
and family, 49, 134, 275
“On Dreams and Reality,” 109
in university, 36, 38, 44, 55
Himes, Estelle Bomar (mother), 303
“Alcorn Ode” by, 33–34
birth of, 5
and Chester’s writing, 98, 140–41, 279, 334, 495
children of, 16, 20, 26, 98
cultural ambitions of, 8, 22, 23–24, 26, 30, 31, 32, 34–35, 44, 51, 52, 54, 71, 89, 96, 116, 120, 140, 203
death of, 203, 205, 210
divorce of, 70–71, 73
family background of, 1–4
and Joseph, 15–18
light skin of, 18, 25, 51, 58
and marital discord, 17, 36–37, 51–52, 58, 59, 64
marriage of, 8–9, 16, 20
move to Cleveland, 49, 51
and son Joe’s eyesight, 54, 58, 70, 73, 91, 360
as teacher, 31
Himes, Fannie [Wiggins] (aunt), 10, 16, 26, 49, 51–52, 63, 73, 111, 203, 506
Himes, Jean (wife), see Johnson, Jean
Himes, Joseph Sandy (father), 11–22, 146, 447
birth and background of, 8–10, 37
as blacksmith, 11, 20, 22, 25, 27, 37
and blacksmithing as outmoded craft, 30
and Chester’s jail sentence, 90, 110
and Chester’s marriage to Jean, 116
and Chester’s parole, 111
and Chester’s probation, 71–72
and Chester’s writing, 239, 240, 495
dealings with white people, 36–37, 339
death of, 285–86, 300
divorce of, 70–71, 73
family of, 10, 21–22, 24, 26, 37, 507
laborer’s jobs of, 45–46, 49, 64, 67, 71, 111, 113, 346
and marital discord, 17, 36–37, 51–52, 58, 59, 64
marriage of, 8–9, 16, 20
operation undergone by, 225, 232
remarriage of, 90, 114
as teacher, 12–17, 25, 27, 29–30, 36, 38–40, 44
work ethic of, 56, 58, 113
Himes, Joseph Sandy, Jr. (brother), 209, 339, 421, 436, 496–97
achievements of, 70, 90–91, 110, 117–18, 125, 128, 265, 275, 417, 491
birth of, 20
and “The Boiling Point,” 220
and Chester’s writing, 244, 320, 366, 494, 497–98
childhood of, 2, 23–24, 26, 29–32, 35–37
and Estelle’s death, 203
eye injury of, 43–45, 52, 53, 54, 73, 88, 89, 360, 491
and family discord, 51
learning Braille, 45
marriage to Jones, 118
name of, 507
“The Negro Delinquent in Columbus, 1935,” 98
at Oberlin, 70, 90
schooling of, 29, 35, 39–42, 53–54, 70
as teacher, 91, 264, 417
Himes, Joseph Sandy (Sandy Neely), 9–10
Himes, Leah (aunt), 10, 11, 24; see also Moon, Leah Himes
Himes, Lesley Packard (second wife), see Packard, Lesley
Himes, Mary (aunt), 10
Himes, Theresa Estelle Jones (Joe Jr.’s wife), 118, 265, 266, 366, 417
Himes, Thomas (uncle), 10
Himes, Wesley (uncle), 10
Hines, family name of, 9
Hines, Elizabeth, 9
Hines, John William, 9
Hines, Joseph Henry, 9
Hitchcock, Alfred, 253
Holiday, Billie, 233, 248, 381
Holland, Charles, 154, 190, 329, 439, 468
Holly, John O., 131
Hollywood blacklist, 155, 243, 297–98
Hollywood films, racial issues in, 172, 423–24, 460, 474, 484
Hollywood Writers Mobilization, 155, 172
Holt, Nora, 190, 191
Hood, R. B., 188
Hoover, J. Edgar, 176, 386, 423
Hopkins, Pauline, 15
Hopper, Hedda, 198
Horn and Hardart Automats, 347
Horne, Lena, 154, 155, 177, 199
Hornung, Cecilia, 404
Houghton Mifflin, 185, 333, 334
House Un-American Activities Committee, 386
Houston, Emanuel W., 17
Howard, Nathaniel, 136, 170–71
Howard, Oliver Otis, 13
Howard, Vilma, 355
Howard University, 13, 55, 63, 213
Howard University Press, 480
Huggins, Nathan, 495
The Harlem Renaissance, 486–87
Hughes, Langston, xii, 52, 100, 107, 147, 404, 479
and Communist Party, 149, 182
contacts of, 149, 158, 199, 220
“Cowards in Our Colleges,” 112
“The Folks at Home,” 101
“A Good Job Gone,” 101
Himes’s letters to, 148, 227
Little Ham, 112
Not Without Laughter, 94
reputation of, 138, 188, 367
as role model, 94, 113, 324
and social issues, 101, 112–13, 212, 298
socializing, 188, 190, 205
as supportive of other authors, 128, 132, 149, 189
Troubled Island, 112
and Yaddo, 236, 252
Hullabaloo (film), 154
Hunter, Kristin, 479
The Landlord, 462
Hurston, Zora Neale, 149, 152, 184
Huxley, Aldous, 383
Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 245
Hymes, name of, 17
If He Hollers Let Him Go (film; not Himes title), 479
Ile de France, 287, 290–92
Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, 64–65
Independent, The, 41
Indian National Congress, 161
Institute of International Education (IIE), 277
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 341
International Association of Machinists, 162
International Literary Bureau, 119
International Literature, 158
International Writers Union, 158
Irele, Abiola, 397
Ish, Jefferson, 39
Italian Renaissance, 275
Ives, Marion, 138
Ivy, James, 366
Jackson, Blyden, 317
Jackson, Helen, 481, 485
Jackson, Jesse, 63
Jackson, Marrilla and William, 71
Jackson, Perry B., 122
Jacob Reed’s Sons, 100
Jahn, Janheinz, 475
Jailbreak (film), 107
James, C. L. R., 209, 212, 431, 465
Janeway, Elizabeth, 205
Janken, Kenneth, 184
Jefferson, Thomas, 14
Jellife, Rowena and Russell, 128, 138, 145
Jenkins, Bud, 65
Jet, 346, 431, 436, 468
Jett, Ruth, 214
Johnny Apollo (film), 145
Johnny Got His Gun (film), 150
Johnson, Andrew, 186, 270
Johnson, Clarence, 151
Johnson, Hall, 154, 156
Johnson, Hugo, 223–24, 226–27
Johnson, James Weldon, 19, 220
Johnson, Jean Lucinda [Plater/Himes]:
affair with Himes, 72, 73–74, 114–15, 116, 121, 360
breakup with Himes, 272–73, 274, 281, 290
career successes of, 178–79, 233–34, 257
and divorce, 340–41, 343, 363, 379, 455–56, 494, 496
and finances, 128, 139, 267, 270, 271, 273, 366
friendships of, 232
in Himes’s writing, 117, 134, 187–88, 205, 226–27, 307, 312, 488
jobs held by, 115, 131, 139, 142, 143, 258, 259, 264, 267, 271, 272
in Los Angeles, 147–48, 153, 164, 167, 178–79, 191, 197, 202
marriage to Himes, 115–16, 126, 174, 184, 187, 210, 248, 249, 258, 260
and Plater, 74, 116
and Thompson, 333, 340, 343
traveling with, 134, 222, 235, 263, 266, 267
Johnson, Lyndon B., 452
Johnson, Margot, 260, 266–67, 270, 275, 314
Johnson, Polly, 183, 278
Jones, James, 292, 431
Jones, LeRoi (Baraka), 430–31, 467, 474, 482
Black Fire, 477
Jones, Theresa Estelle [Himes], 118, 265
Joyce, James, 344
Finnegans Wake, 253
Julius Rosenwald Fund:
closing of, 277
directors of, 138, 169
and Ellison, 189, 283
and Himes, 138, 169, 173, 174–75, 177, 178, 181, 197, 198, 199, 203, 204, 221, 229, 232, 235, 236
mission of, 138
Kafka, Franz, 324
Kanaga, Consuela, 160
Kansas, migration to, 19
Karamu House, Cleveland, 128, 134, 136, 138
Katzenjammer Kids, 67
Katz, Sam, 127
Kazantzakis, Nikos:
The Last Temptation, 382
Zorba the Greek, 382
Kazin, Alfred, 365
Kelley, Ishmael, 353, 387
Kelley, William Melvin, A Different Drummer, 406
Kemp, Arnold, 479
Ken, 126, 127
Kennedy, John F., 398, 439, 452
Kenyon Review, 353
Kerwin, Joseph, 81
Killens, John, Youngblood, 306
Kimball, Richard, 422
Kimbrough, Jess, 149, 158, 376
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 212
assassination of, 473, 474
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” 442
Kinloch, John, 149, 151
Kinsey, Alfred, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, 261, 268
Kirk, Roland, 439
Kishur, Gideon, 119
Kitt, Eartha, 297
Klonsky, Milton, 243–44
Knopf, Alfred A., Inc., 136, 138, 481
accounting practices in, 247–48, 269, 271, 429
and Himes’s dunning for money, 257, 270, 341
and Himes’s memoirs, 446
Himes’s missed deadlines with, 260, 269
and Immortal Mammy, 234–35, 257, 371
and Lonely Crusade, xiii, 232, 238, 239, 245, 257, 313, 341, 423, 432, 436, 446
and Yesterday Will Make You Cry, 225, 227, 234
Knopf, Blanche, 149, 224, 228, 232, 234, 236, 237, 238, 257, 265, 269, 341
Koshland, William, 341
Kostroff, Larry, 436
Kreisler, Fritz, 35
Krim, Seymour, 426
Kristallnacht, comparison with U.S. race riots, 166
Ku Klux Klan, 423, 426
La Ciotat writers colony, 360, 394, 461, 462
La Dolce Vita (film), 403
Lafuite, René, 413, 416
Lamming, George, 366
The Castle of My Skin, 344
The Immigrants, 344
Landis, James, 469
Laney, Lucy, 31–32
Lardner, Ring, 100
Lardner, Ring, Jr., 155
La Série Noire, 329, 372, 379, 381, 383–84, 389, 396, 411, 412
Lawrence, Seymour, 446
Lawson, John Howard, 150–51
Lazareff, Pierre, 416, 417, 425, 426, 428
League of American Writers, 149, 150, 151, 155, 291
Lederman, Ross, 152
Lee, Don L. (Haki Madhubiti), 479
Don’t Cry, Scream, 378
“Understanding but Not Forgetting,” 462
Le Figaro, 416
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, 487
Le Monde, 350, 354
Lenin, V. I., 175, 229, 244, 306
Le Revue de Paris, 416
Les Lettres Françaises, 383, 443
Leslie, Joshua, 353, 397
Les Temps Modernes, 351, 456
Lester, Julius, 479, 487
Levey, Stan, 148
Levin, Dan, 129, 279, 287
Levin, Meyer, 104, 152
Levine, Joseph E., 422
L’Express, 365, 393
L’Humanité, 354
Libération, 354
Liberty, 92
Licavoli, Thomas, 83
Liepman, Ruth, 395, 408
Life, 283, 310, 385
Lincoln, Abraham, 48
Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Missouri, 19, 20–26, 120
Literary Guild, 309
Littauer, Kenneth, 119, 152, 334, 336–37
Little Caesar (film), 258
Locke, Alain, 63, 234
Lockhart, Calvin, 424
Lomax, Phil, 468–69, 471, 477
Lonardo, Angelo, 68
Lonardo, “Big Joe,” 68
London:
escape from, 314, 316
Himes and Packard in, 443, 474
Himes and Thompson in, 307–9, 311–14
Himes’s return visit to, 331, 332–33
race prejudice in, 308, 311, 319, 333
London, Jack, 91
London Prison Farm, 105–6, 110, 287
Los Angeles:
African American writers in, 190
black migrants in, 177
Communist Party in, 149–50, 420
Himeses’ move to, 145, 147–67
Japanese citizens removed from, 157
police brutality against blacks in, 420, 457
racial discrimination in, 148–49, 154–56, 160, 172, 179, 202
racial tension in, 148, 153, 165–66, 184, 235
Watts riots in, 457
Los Angeles Museum of Fine Arts, 164
Los Angeles Sentinel, 156
Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, 174
Los Angeles Times, 157, 457, 487, 494
Lothman, Daniel, 70
Luccioni, Roger, 462
Luce, Henry, 250, 283, 288
Lucy, Authurine, 354
Lumumba, Patrice, 404, 405, 446
Lunquist, James, 495
MacArthur, Douglas, 250
Mademoiselle, 138
Madhubuti, Haki (Lee), 378, 462, 479
Magic Bow, The (film), 156
Mailer, Norman, 292, 426
The Naked and the Dead, 260
Major, Clarence, 479, 486, 488
Malabar Farm, 139, 142–46, 170, 222–23
Malartic, Yves, 272, 292, 293, 304, 324, 326, 327, 331, 350, 366, 373
Malcolm X, xiv, 417–20, 430, 446, 449–53
antiwhite stance of, 418, 419, 423, 457
assassination of, xv, 453, 454, 474
biography of, 567
and Himes’s writing, 418, 450
and media, 418, 420, 425, 426, 428, 487
and Nation of Islam, 417–18, 419–20, 449, 453
and revolution, 419–20, 427, 449
threats to, 449, 451, 453
Himes and Fischer in, 387–89
Himes and Thompson in, 314, 315–16, 318–19, 322, 324–27
Malone, Robert, 39, 43
Malraux, André, 439
Malraux, Clara, 439
Manhunt, 342
Marable, Manning, 567
Marble, Henry, 338
March on Washington (1963), 438
Margolies, Edward, 494
Marinoff, Fania, 452
Marshall, Thurgood, 182, 266
Martin, Gertrude, 317
Martin, John A., 29
Marx, Karl, 208, 306
Marxism, 190, 228, 288, 333, 362, 397, 447, 450, 452
Mason, Ann, 183, 186
Mathieu, André, 437
Matthews, Mrs. Edward, 186
Matthiessen, Peter, 354
Maude, Chester’s abandonment of, 66, 89
Maugham, Somerset, 139, 383
Mayfield, Julian, 451
Mayfield Road Gang, 68
Mboya, Tom, 332
McBride, Mary Margaret, 239–40
McCall, Nathan, xiv
McCarthy, Joseph, 297, 321
McCormick, Ken, 216, 225, 334, 481
McCoy, Horace, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, 259
McDaniel, Eluard, 150, 160
McDaniel, Hattie, 155
McDermott, Pat, 82
McMahon, Walter, 76
McPherson, James Alan, Hue and Cry, 479
McWilliams, Carey, 172, 220–21, 232
Meldrim, Peter, 14, 16, 19
Melville, Herman, 230
Mencken, H. L., 228
Meredith, James, 426
Merlin, 361
Meyers, Eddie, 353
Mezzrow, Mezz, 387, 409
M-G-M, 154, 156, 199, 460, 483
Micha, René, “The Parishioners of Chester Himes,” 456
Michael Arthur Films, 413
Michaux, Lewis, 418, 419, 428, 433
Militant, The, 242
Millau, Christian, 395, 399, 402
Miller, Arthur, 207
Miller, Henry, 295, 323, 329, 353
Miller, Juanita, 164, 177, 187, 190
Miller, Loren, 149, 151, 160, 164, 190
Miller, Samuel, 75–76, 486
Miller, Warren, The Cool World, 424
Milliken, Stephen, 495
Millionaires in Prison (film), 145
Mills, Florence, 173
Millstein, Gilbert, 286
Minué, Roche, 322, 388
Missouri, migration to, 19–20, 38
Mitchell, Loften, 488
Mittwer, Mary Oyama and family, 157, 173
Modern Language Association, 32
Monroe movement, North Carolina, 423
Moody, Pearl, 126
Moon, Bucklin, 182, 184–85, 189, 436
and Carver Award, 185, 199, 200
The Darker Brother, 185
and Himes’s writing, 192–93, 196, 197, 200, 201–2, 204–5, 215, 216, 224, 228–29, 277–78
Primer for White Folks, 186, 200, 204
“Slack’s Blues,” 196
Moon, Ella, 112
Moon, Ellen, 26
Moon, Henry Lee, 26, 51
breakup with Himes, 206, 209, 210
and Communist Party, 151
early career of, 118
and FDR’s campaign, 181–83
and Himes in New York, 179, 180–81, 202
and Himes’s writing, 116, 117, 120, 170–71, 204, 244
influence of/Himes’s use of, 55, 118, 120, 131, 163, 169, 170, 179, 206, 209
and Mollie, see Moon, Mollie Lewis
social connections of, 94, 120, 168, 187, 188, 190, 212, 402, 408
and social issues, 118, 125, 127, 131, 202, 244
travel to Russia, 151
in Washington, 118, 131, 134, 168
Moon, Joe Hubbard, 26, 56, 204
Moon, Leah Himes, 10, 11, 24, 25, 26, 50–51, 54, 55, 56, 111–12, 146–47
connections of, 163, 169, 186, 187, 202, 266, 293
Himes’s battle of words with, 205
and Himes’s writing, 204–5, 352, 355, 357
marriage of Henry and, 118, 134–35
socializing, 134–35, 169, 180, 183, 184, 186, 190, 191, 202, 204, 212, 266, 278, 293, 357, 381
and Urban League, 168–69
Moon, Rodney “Roddy,” 11, 24–25, 26, 50–51, 54, 73, 111–12, 203
Moore, Carlos, 446–47, 448, 449–52, 453, 567
Morrill Act, and land-grant colleges, 13
Morrison, Allan, 431
Moten, Fannie, 25
Motion Pictures Producers, Los Angeles, 423
Motley, Willard, xiv, 240–42, 260
Knock on Any Door, 237, 241, 246, 266–67
Moumié, Félix, 405
Moutet, Karin, 407
MOVE, 476
Muhammad, Akbar, 446
Muhammad, Elijah, 446
Muhammad Speaks, 419
Muldrew, Mattie, 232
Muntu religion, 475
Murphy, James and Joseph, 93
Mystère, 391
Mystery Writers of America, 477
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People):
and civil rights activism, 186, 418, 420
and Congress, 356
and FBI, 188, 386, 423
formation of, 17, 50
and Hill, 408–9, 423–24
Himes condemned by, xiv
and Himes’s writing, 163, 166, 168, 423
Monroe movement, 423
and public relations, 154–55, 483–84, 492
stereotypes fought by, 160, 163, 202, 423–24
and Supreme Court, 151
and White, 18, 155, 183, 202, 357
Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita, 408
Nasser, Gamal, 449
National Book Award, 283, 288, 355
National Citizens Political Action Committee, 182
National Labor Relations Board, 423
National Memorial Bookstore, 418
National Negro Business League, 15
National Negro Congress, 214
Nation of Islam, 417–18, 419–20, 449, 453
Neale, Larry, 488
Nedeau, Maurice, 326, 331
Neely, Sandy, see Himes, Joseph Sandy
Negro Caravan (anthology), 158–59
Negro Digest, 224, 239, 474, 478
Negro Story, 174, 189, 196, 197
Negro Writers Guild, 103
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 161
Nesbitt, Jacob, 81
Neurological Institute, New York, 435–36
New American Library (NAL):
and Cast the First Stone, 330, 345, 347
and End of a Primitive, 326, 329, 330, 337, 341, 371
and Freeman, 342, 345–46
and Himes’s finances, 331, 341–42, 348, 371, 388
and If He Hollers Let Him Go, 218, 345, 441
and Mamie Mason, 370–71
in My Life of Absurdity, 495
and The Primitive, 341, 345, 347–48, 353, 371, 441
and The Third Generation, 312, 315, 321, 330, 348, 441
and Weybright, 312, 321, 326, 329, 330
Newark, New Jersey, riots in, 467–68, 474
New Leader, 250
New Masses, 132–33, 189, 242–43, 282, 287, 342
New Prospect Hotel, 278
New Republic, 213, 240
Newsweek, 239, 469
New York City:
Algonquin Hotel in, 239
Four Freedoms crowd in, 185
Harlem riots, 443–44, 448
Himes’s move to, 179, 180–81, 227, 274
Himes’s return to, 334–36, 428, 430, 432, 482
history of black life in, 425–26
Sugar Hill, Harlem, 180–81, 183
syndicated drug sales in, 418–19
Theresa Hotel in, 134, 227, 233, 266, 417, 425
New York Herald Tribune, 240, 392, 408
New York Public Library, 207, 220
New York State Women’s Reformatory, 271
New York Times, 127, 200, 205, 207, 215, 239, 258, 286, 288, 317, 318, 396–97, 457, 459, 460, 477, 483, 487
New York Times Book Review, 117, 285, 314, 464, 486–87, 494–95
Niagara Movement, 17
Nichols, Lewis, 396
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 181–82
Nixon, Richard M., 321
Nkrumah, Kwame, 332, 451
Non Partisan Council for the Abolition of Discrimination in Military and Veteran Affairs, 186
North Carolina College for Negroes, 264–66
Nouvelles Littéraires, 330
Nugget, 436
Nyobé, Ruben Um, 398
OAS (Organisation de l’Armée Secrète), 426–27, 447
Obelisk Press, 323
Oberlin College, 22, 70, 90
O’Brien, Edward, 134
O’Connor, Flannery, 253
October in Paris (film), 439
Office of War Information, 154
O’Hara, John, 239, 293
Butterfield 8, 259
Ohio Guide, 125, 127, 135
Ohio Industrial Commission, 110
Ohio National Guard, 83, 85–86
Ohio National Guard Armory, robbery in, 74
Ohio State Penitentiary, Columbus, Ohio, 76, 77–90
census taken in, 83
convicts with disabilities in, 80–81
electric chair in, 78, 82, 87, 93–94
escape attempts in, 82, 86
fire in, 84–85, 87, 88, 89, 103, 136
guards in, 82–83, 86, 89, 92
Himes’s parole from, 106, 108, 109, 110, 126
Himes’s prison writing, xi, xii, 79, 81, 87–89, 90, 91–97, 98–108, 122, 140, 141, 144, 159, 169–70, 174, 218, 280, 484
Himes’s uniqueness in, 79–80, 104–5
isolation chamber (“the hole”) in, 80, 84, 86
laws expediting parole, 89
prisoners as authors in, 91
prisoner uprising in, 85–87
prison life in, 78, 80, 82–83, 105
prison reform in, 85–86, 87
racial segregation in, 78–79
same-sex relations in, 81, 88, 97–98, 103, 110, 115, 152, 241, 261–62, 286, 287
Ohio State University, 55, 60–64, 65–66
Ohio Writers’ Project, 135
Oklahoma, and exodusters, 19, 147
Olympia Press, 408, 454
Opportunity, 121, 128, 159, 161, 162, 169
Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), 450, 451, 452
ORTF France, 416, 417
Ottley, Gladys, 186
Ottley, Roi, 185, 186
Owens, Jesse, 62
Oyono, Ferdinand, 398
Packard, Lesley [Himes], 442, 451
affair with Himes, 380, 392–93, 394, 403–5, 407, 411, 428, 432, 435, 437, 440–41, 458, 466, 468
and Fischer-Himes affair, 380, 392–93, 395, 399, 400, 402–3
and Himes’s ill health and death, 497, 498
and Himes’s papers, 276, 498
and Himes’s writing, 276, 380, 392, 413, 428, 455, 456–57, 488–89, 494, 495
marriage of Himes and, 455, 496, 498
and money, 435, 436, 461, 497
socializing, 392, 421, 462, 478
traveling with Himes, 439, 456, 458–59, 463, 465–66, 472–74, 487, 489, 491, 494
Padmore, George, 332–33, 405
Paganini, Niccolò, 156
Page, Inman, 21
Panijel, Jacques, 439, 458
Paramount Pictures, 152
Paris:
blacks in, 293, 295, 296–301, 303–4, 310, 327–29, 331–32, 354, 355–57, 361, 366–68, 370, 381, 431, 442, 445, 461
FBI agent in, 297–98
Grand Prix awarded to Himes, 391
Himes lost in, 303
Himes’s preoccupation with sex in, 293–94, 295, 306
Himes’s time in, 292–307, 350–74, 385–87, 396, 397, 437–41, 456, 468
Himes’s travel to, 287–92, 327, 348–49, 427, 436–37, 474
international conference of black writers in, 366–68, 373
Père Lachaise cemetery in, 405
student riots in, 474–75
U.S. writers and artists in, 219, 223, 292–95, 299–305, 352, 353–57, 361, 363, 364, 368, 388, 407, 409, 495
Paris-Match, 392, 393, 395
Paris-Presse, 437
Paris Review, 331, 354, 355
Parker, Charlie, 148
Parker, Frederick, 25
Parks, Gordon, 271, 283, 309–10, 483
Parks, Gordon, Jr., 483
Parks, Rosa, 354
Parkway Community House, Chicago, 169, 248–49
Partisan Review, 288, 299
Payne, Lawrence, 122
Pearlstein, Constance, 431, 465, 466
Pearlstein, Edward, 431, 466
PEN Center, 290, 314
Penitentiary News, 91
People’s Daily World, 161
People’s Voice, The, 242, 356
Perl, Arnold, 474
Perry, Johnny, 67
Perry, Lincoln (Stepin Fetchit), 155
Perry, Pettis, 159
Petry, Ann, 185, 205, 415
The Narrows, 306
The Street, 222, 246
Philadelphia Tribune, 474
Phillips, Ruth, 294, 304
Phylon, 296
Picasso, Pablo, 411
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Himes family move to, 38–43, 106
Pittsburgh Courier, 153, 183, 207, 275, 282, 286, 293
Plater, Harry, 72, 74, 114, 115, 116
Players, 496
Plimpton, George, 354
PM, 207
Pocket Books, 436
Poe, Edgar Allan, 311
“The Raven,” 35
Pope, Alexander, 4
Porello, Joe, 68
Porter, Katherine Anne, 134
Porter, William Sydney (O. Henry), xi, 91, 99, 103, 107
Poston, Ted, 206
Pound, Ezra, 101
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 183, 187, 356, 408
Powell, Bud, 407, 415–16
Prattis, P. L., 205
Présence Africain, 360, 428, 437, 438, 451, 462
Preston, Don, 445
Pre-vue Worlds Fair Concert, Cleveland, 134
Price, Emerson, 243
Prison Mutiny (film), 145
Prohibition, 60, 68, 99, 131
Publishers Weekly, 200, 203–4, 313–14
Pulp Fiction (film), 476
Putnam, G. P., publishers, 268, 441, 448, 454, 456, 458, 469, 482, 486
Putnam, James, 268–69, 290
Putnam, Marion, 290, 292, 297–98, 300, 359
Rabbit Foot Minstrels, 27
Rabelais, 416
race:
Arab-African racism, 445, 450
as barrier to relationships, 333, 337–38
“beating that boy,” 218–19, 275
and colonialism, 326, 362, 426–27, 437
Du Bois on, xi, 17, 34, 367
evolution of racism, 246, 425–28, 451–52, 453, 461
Himes’s writings about, xiii, xiv, 242, 425–28, 433–34, 439; see also Himes, Chester B., writings of
and immigration, 172
and intermarriage, 386, 407, 411, 442
interracial sex, 193–95, 198, 201, 276, 280, 281, 297, 302, 305, 307, 319, 324, 336, 359, 365, 369, 380, 386, 441, 452, 464, 468, 487, 489
oppression and violence, 18–19, 194, 425–27, 454, 465, 467–68
racism in Boston, 337–38
racism in France, 362, 381, 426–27, 437, 453
racism in London, 308, 311, 319, 333
racism in Spain, 473
racism internalized, 211, 284
and slavery, see slavery
and social class, 161–63, 242–43, 250, 278
and taxes, 10
and thunder, 167, 170
U.S. race relations, xiv, 219, 229, 230, 234, 268, 284, 289, 299, 309–11, 337–38, 398, 423, 425–28, 439, 443–44, 465, 467–68, 497
and World War II, 165–66, 173, 177, 186–87
and “you people” designation, 7, 14
see also African Americans
Rainey, Gertrude “Ma,” 27
Raisin in the Sun, A (film), 412, 414
Ralls, Walter and Blanton, 93
Ramseger, George, 395, 409, 428
Randall, Dudley, 489
Randolph, Asa Philip, 249, 419
Random House, 342, 478, 480–81
Raney, Bill, 260, 266
Ransom, John Crowe, 361
Reach, James, 427
Reader’s Digest, 271
Redbook, 92
Reddick, Laurence Dunbar, 212, 220
Redding, J. Saunders, 244
Red Johnny (professional gambler), 69
Red Scare, 243, 249, 277, 278, 280, 288, 297, 386
Reed, Ishmael, 479, 488, 493, 494, 496, 497
Mumbo Jumbo, 377, 495
19 Necromancers from Now, 484
Reese, Mary, 128
Reeves, George H., 76
Remarque, Erich Maria, 383
Revels, Hiram, 28
Revolution, 430
Reynal and Hitchcock, publishers, 189
Reynolds, Rev. Grant, 124, 186–87, 249
Rice, Virginia, 319–20
Richardson, Sandy, 481, 485, 492
Rico, Prince, 97, 98, 105, 106–8, 121, 152, 262
Rimbaud, A Season in Hell, 253
Roach, Max, 442, 443
Robeson, Essie, 184
Robeson, Paul, 145, 173, 182, 184, 220
Robinson, Edward G., 258
Robinson, Jackie, 241, 419, 428
Robinson, Samuel, 9
Robinson, Sugar Ray, 391
Robinson, Ted, 135, 207
Rochfort, Christiane, 437, 438
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 419
Rockefeller, Winthrop, 182, 183
Rome Prize, 421–22
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 118, 130, 164
“Four Freedoms” speech by, 168
reelection campaign of, 181–83, 186, 187, 197
and World War II, 153, 160
Roosevelt, Theodore, 19, 22, 164
Rose (prostitute), 64, 65
Rose, Innes, 308, 314
Rosenkrantz, Timme “Jazz Baron,” 381, 384
Rosenthal, Jean, 328
Rosenwald, Julius, 138
Rosser, Lou, 159
Rotger Amengual, Dona Catalina, 316
Roth v. United States, 321–22
Rowan, Levi, 29, 30, 33
Rowe, Agnes, 90, 111
Rugoff, Milton, 228
Runnin’ Wild (musical), 62
Russell, Rev. Clayton, 150, 151
Rustin, Bayard, 420
Safford, Frank, 227
St. Jacques, Raymond, 424
St. Louis:
Charles Sumner High School, 46, 55
Himes family move to, 45–47
racial violence in, 45
St. Louis Woman (musical), 199, 202
Sancton, Thomas, 234
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 219, 351, 353, 370, 390
Satterfield, Rev. David Junkin, 7, 16
Saturday Evening Post, 92
Saturday Review of Literature, 215, 217, 221, 230
Savannah, Georgia, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18–19
Savannah Sunday Men’s Club, 16–17, 19
Scarborough, William, 32
Schine, G. David, 297–98, 470
Schomburg Collection of Negro History and Literature, New York, 207, 220
Schulberg, Budd, What Makes Sammy Run, 259
Schuyler, George, 205, 234, 317
Schuyler, Phillipa, 234
SCLC, 420
Scotia Seminary, 6–7, 8, 16, 22, 24, 51
Scott, C. C., 8
Scott, Hazel, 449
Scott, Walter, 4
Screen Writers Guild, 151, 155
Scribner’s, 116
Seaver, Edwin, 291
Seid, Ruth, 125–27, 206–7
“Cleveland’s Negro Problem,” 126–27
The Wasteland, 210, 222
“They Gave Us Jobs,” 127
Selective Service Act, 249
Seltzer, Louis, 118, 129, 131
Sembène, Ousmane:
Black Docker, 367–68
God’s Bits of Wood, 368
Senate Armed Services Committee, 249
Shaft (film), 483
Shakespeare, William, Macbeth, 443
Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 293
Sharpeville massacre, South Africa, 476
Sheffield, Horace, 186
Shipley, Ruth B., 287
Shuffle Along (musical), 154
Siegel, Rosalyn, 458
Signifying Monkey (folklore character), 190, 250
Silberman, James, 358–59, 360, 371
Silberman, Noel, 358
Simmons, Art, 395, 468
Simms, Hilda, 216
Simpson, Clinton, 228
Sims, Marian, 240
Sinatra, Frank, 258
Sinclair, Jo (nom de plume), 125
Sinclair, Upton, 293
Sine, Robert, 449
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 464
Siskel, Gene, 482
Sky Above, the Mud Below, The (film), 413, 415
slavery:
Arab slave trade, 445, 450
and Civil War, 4–5
economic effects of, 13
emancipation, 10, 467
forced sexual relations in, 2
in Himes’s family history, 1, 2–4, 9, 24, 37, 63, 503
history of, 42, 467
slaves as personal property, 3
and Uncle Tom mentality, 37
Smith, Bill (in Vermont), 166–68, 264, 267, 285, 287
God Is for White Folks (Will Thomas, pseud.), 235–36
The Seeking, 286
Smith, Charles, 39
Smith, Gus “Bunch Boy,” 67, 68–69, 72, 74
Smith, Helen, 235, 264, 267
Smith, Hoke, 18
Smith, Lillian, Strange Fruit, 201
Smith, Ray, 142
Smith, William Gardner (in Paris), 296–97, 300, 362, 367, 385, 386, 393
Anger at Innocence, 296
contacts of, 307, 351, 353, 446–47
and Himes’s writing, 296, 447
socializing, 297, 360, 369, 392, 395, 403, 408
South Street, 296, 317
The Stone Face, 447–48
and Thompson, 307, 359
SNCC, 418
Snook, James Howard, 82
socialism, 162, 447, 452
Socialist Workers Party, 242, 408, 423
social realism, coining the term, 288
Soon, One Morning (anthology), 409, 424
Soul (TV), 487
Sousa, John Philip, 35
South Africa, apartheid in, 467
Soviet Union, and India, 161
Spain:
book market in, 473
Himes and Packard in, 472–73, 478, 481
racism in, 473
Spanish Civil War, 113, 150, 160, 189, 472–73
SS Ryndum, 348
Stein, Gertrude, 219, 225
Stein and Day, 441, 448, 454, 455
Steinbeck, John, 329, 390
Stevens, Shane, 480
Stevens, Simon, 79
Still, William Grant, 149
Stinson, Hydar, 16
Stokes, Ronald, 418
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 194
Straus, Roger, 422
Stravinsky, Igor, 219
Styron, William, 292, 330–31
Lie Down in Darkness, 331
Suez Canal, 373
Sumner, Charles, 46
Sunday, Slim, 327, 353
Super Fly (film), 483
Supreme Court, U.S., 127, 151, 321–22, 465
surrealism, 372
Survey Graphic, 230, 234
Sussex Village, New Jersey, 258–59
Sutton, Percy, 420
Swan, Oliver, 352
Sweeney, Edward, 252
Sweet-and-Hot (musical), 173
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song (film), 483
Taft, William Howard, 32
Tarantino, Quentin, 476
Targ, Rosalyn Siegel, 458, 465, 466, 469, 473, 475, 480, 485, 496, 497
Targ, William, 238, 283, 290, 310, 468
and End of a Primitive, 321, 323–24
and My People, 325–26, 458
and Putnam, 458, 482, 486
and Silver Altar, 311, 313, 314, 320
socializing, 466, 475
and The Cord/Third Generation, 278–79, 285, 305, 306, 313, 318, 323–24, 458
and World Publishers, 278, 285, 305, 306, 309, 310–11, 313, 320, 323, 325, 326, 458
Taube, Everet, 412
Taylor, Recy, 194
Tehran, summit meeting in, 160
Thatch, Cornalee, 74
Thé, Dr., 327, 330
This Is New York (radio), 239
Thomas, Preston E., 81, 83, 84, 85–86
Thomas, Will (pseud.), 236
Thompson, Lewis B., 15
Thompson, Willa, 290–92, 359
affair of Himes and, 302–3, 307–9, 311–14, 315–16, 318, 319, 322–23, 324–28, 336, 340–41, 342–43, 360, 369, 380, 428, 434, 443
ending of the affair, 323, 326, 330, 333–35, 337, 343, 351, 361, 363
Garden Without Flowers, formerly The Silver Altar, 352, 363
and Himes’s writing, 369, 376, 443, 464–65, 488
and Jean, 333, 340, 343
in London, 307–9, 311–14
in Mallorca, 314, 315–16, 318–19, 322, 324–27
and money, 302, 326, 327, 328
as Mrs. Trierweiler, 352
in New York, 333–43
in Paris, 302, 327, 328, 331, 347
and race, 313, 314, 319, 337–39
The Silver Altar, 291–92, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 318, 319–20, 321, 333–34, 336–37, 343, 352, 361
using alcohol and drugs, 322, 328, 336
Thompson, W. O., 62
Thurman, Wallace, 206
Till, Emmett, 346
Tillich, Paul, 219
Time, 283, 292, 310, 393, 442, 478, 489
Times Literary Supplement (London), 254, 461
Tolson, Melvin B., 182, 367
Rendezvous with America, 188
Tolstoy, Leo, 181
Tomorrow, 263
Trask, Spencer and Sylvia, 251
Tribune de Lausaune, 383
Trilling, Lionel, 288, 361
Trotsky, Leon, 101
Troupe, Quincy, 488, 494
Truman, Harry S., 249, 250
Trumbo, Dalton, 150–51, 172
Turner, Gabriel, 175
Turner, Mary, 31
Turner, Nat, 175
Turpin, Waters, 145
Tuskegee Institute, 17, 125
Twentieth Century–Fox, 155
Underground Railroad, 235
UNESCO, 301
Union Leader, 131
United Artists, 474
United Auto Workers–CIO, 186
United Nations, 161, 446
United States:
black president of, 468
civil rights movement in, 170, 353–54, 356, 359, 362, 363, 378, 386, 414, 418, 419, 420, 426, 438, 442, 444–45, 467
imperialism in, 451
race relations in, see race
United States military, segregation in, 168, 173, 178, 187, 242, 249
Universal Military Training Act, 249
University of Chicago, 254
University of Mississippi, 426
Updike, John, 464
Urban League, 121, 124, 162, 168–69, 189
Beaux Arts Ball, 168–69, 402
USA, 288
U.S. Army Communications Zone Europe, 397
U.S. Navy, 165, 178
USO (United Service Organizations), 178, 197
Uzzell, Thomas, 117
Van Bracken, Frank, 353
Van Peebles, Melvin, 441–43, 455, 457, 458, 468, 483, 487
“Harlem on Fire,” 444
Story of a Three-Day Pass, 441
Van Vechten, Carl, 314, 367, 462
contacts of, 228, 251
death of, 452
Himes’s letters to, 98, 105, 223, 226, 235, 258, 305, 397, 414, 425, 436, 438, 448, 495
Himes’s requests for help from, 244, 257, 281–82, 325
and Himes’s writing, xiii, 224–25, 226, 232, 234, 238, 260, 280, 327, 329
Nigger Heaven, 226
photographs and paintings of, 281, 421
on social issues, 219, 275
socializing, 98, 219–20, 237, 335, 344
and Yaddo, 236, 252
and Yale collection, 220, 407
Vardaman, James, 36
Verdi, Giuseppi, Il Trovatore, 35–36
Vidal, Gore, The City and the Pillar, 261
Virginia Ravers, 65
Vogue, 448
Volstead Act (1919), 60
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 464
Wallace, Flo, 79
Wallace, Henry A., 221
Warner, Jack, 156, 460
Warner Bros., 152, 155–56
War Production Board, 151
War Worker, 172, 173
Washington, Booker T., 17, 19, 22, 50, 96, 138, 164
Washington, Kennie, 241
Washington, Leon, 156
Waters, Ethel, 62
Watkins, Mel, 488
WCBS radio, 239
Weaver, Robert, 118, 134, 181
Webb, Constance, 209–10, 349, 431
Weil Coffee and Tea Importers, 137
Welfare Island, New York, 148, 238
Welles, Orson, 356
West, Rebecca, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, 382
Weybright, Victor, 312–13, 321, 326, 329, 330, 370–71
White, Charles, 169
White, Francis, 257
White, Gladys, 184
White, Walter, 181, 183–84, 215
contacts of, 168, 182, 205, 357
and film industry, 155, 423–24
and Himes’s writing, 213, 217–18
and NAACP, 18, 155, 183, 202, 357
papers of, 220
A Rising Wind, 185
stereotypes fought by, 155, 172, 217–18, 423
White Plains YMCA, Himes’s job with, 272
Who Do You Kill? (TV), 474
Wiggins, Fannie Himes, 10, 16, 26, 49, 51–52, 63, 73, 111, 203, 506
Wiggins, Gerald, 232
Wiggins, Wade Hampton, 49–50, 51, 92, 111
Wilkerson, Doxey, 205
Wilkins, Ernest, 70
Wilkins, Roy, 163, 168, 170–71, 183, 205, 207
William Morrow and Company, 469, 477
Williams, Auber LaCarlton (nom de plume), 97
Williams, Bert, 173, 282
Williams, Billy Dee, 424
Williams, George, 87
Williams, John A., 424, 462–63, 479, 488
after Himes’s death, 493, 498
and Amistad I, 478, 482
The Angry Ones, 421
contacts of, 427–28, 446
disagreements with, 470–71, 478, 493
and Doubleday, 481–82
and Himes’s finances, 427, 435, 436
and Himes’s interviews, 478, 482, 493, 494
and Himes’s writing, 427–28, 476, 480, 481, 489, 493, 496, 498
The Man Who Cried I Am, 470–71
Night Song, 421
Sissie, 431
socializing, 431, 436
Williams, Reba, 142
Williams, Robert F., 423
Williams, Sidney, 124, 355
Williams, Rev. Sylvester, 122
Willkie, Wendell, 155, 172
Wilson, Earl, 205
Wilson, Juanita, 153
Wilson, Welford, 149–50, 153
Winsor, Kathleen, 346
WNBC radio, 239
Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Cariolina, 2
Wolfe, Thomas, 100
Wolfert, Vivian, 209
women’s liberation movement, 285
Woodard, Isaac, 356
Woodson, Carter G., The Negro in Our History, 42
Woodville Republican, 29
Work, Monroe N., 16–17
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 120, 122–24, 129, 131, 135, 210, 426
World Publishers:
and Black Boogie Woogie, 282, 325
and The Cord/Third Generation, 268–69, 278–79, 281, 285, 287, 301, 305, 306–7, 309, 311, 312, 313–14, 318, 320, 321, 323, 348
and End of a Primitive, 320, 323–24, 327
and Himes’s finances, 282, 287, 307, 311, 318, 321, 323, 326, 329, 429
and New World Writing, 311
and Putnam, 268–69
and Silver Altar, 311, 313, 314, 315, 320, 321–22
and Targ, 278, 285, 305, 306, 309, 310–11, 313, 320, 323, 325, 326, 458
and Zevin, 238, 301, 327, 329
World War I, veterans returning from, 38
World War II, 170, 172, 356, 451
black servicemen in, 171, 189, 201
and Communist Party, 177–78, 214
D-Day, 177
and double V, 153–54, 161, 171
end of, 191
and German-Soviet pact, 159
Himes’s experiences in, 42, 173, 191
Japanese citizens interned in, 157, 167, 172–73, 186
Liberty ships, 153
“Now Is the Time! Here Is the Place!,” 161–62
onset of, 129, 134, 153
postwar job opportunities, 243, 444–45
postwar literary tradition, 471
postwar population surge, 202
and racism, 165–66, 173, 177, 186–87
U.S. military segregation in, 168, 173, 178, 187
women working in, 197
Wright, Cleo, 153
Wright, Ellen, 293, 302–3, 307, 328, 361, 386, 404–5, 409–10, 447, 449
Wright, Rachel, 409
Wright, Richard Nathaniel (author), 94, 207–11, 218–20, 353, 364, 392, 393, 409, 443, 462, 493
and Africa, 304, 403
and Baldwin, 298–301, 303, 353, 405, 470, 478, 492
Black Boy, 191–92, 231, 300, 301, 307, 405, 479
and blues school, 210–11
and Communist Party, 133, 189, 214, 237, 246, 298
competing with, 218, 230, 365, 366, 391, 407
death of, 328, 403–6
and Ellison, 189, 209–10, 218, 231, 283, 284–85, 299, 365, 367, 479
and Himes’s writing, 207, 218, 222, 236–38, 239, 245, 279–80, 286, 289, 305, 310, 318, 365, 369–70, 386–87, 406, 428, 437
influence of, 397, 442, 454
“I Tried to Be a Communist,” 189
The Long Dream, 387
Native Son, 132–34, 136, 141, 192, 214, 228, 245, 246, 287, 299, 307, 324, 367, 470, 479
The Outsider, 289, 290, 293, 369
papers of, 220
in Paris, 219, 222, 223, 229, 233, 287–89, 292–93, 294–95, 297–305, 328, 332, 385
and race relations, xiv, 133, 224
Rite of Passage, 209
as role model, 133
socializing, 182, 190–91, 205, 209, 212, 219, 359, 365, 492
stylistic development of, 333
as supportive of other writers, 207, 362, 397
Uncle Tom’s Children, 126, 136
Wright, Richard R. (educator), 13, 15, 19, 20, 22, 32
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York, 236, 248, 250–58, 281, 361
Yale University Library, 220, 407
Yerby, Frank, 396
Yorty, Samuel, 420
Yoruba religion, 447
Young, Al, 494–95
Young, Lester, 416
Zanuck, Darryl F., 155
Zevin, Ben, 238, 301, 327, 329