tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post4732005203910257711..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Forgotten Book - A Rage in HarlemMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-28701230371960435322018-09-16T14:33:17.464+01:002018-09-16T14:33:17.464+01:00Jim, that's very interesting about the Clevela...Jim, that's very interesting about the Cleveland connection and the real life models. Thanks a lot for the info.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-46143282106782913502018-09-16T14:32:21.350+01:002018-09-16T14:32:21.350+01:00Thanks, Dave.Thanks, Dave.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-76620750116303040192018-09-16T04:01:41.782+01:002018-09-16T04:01:41.782+01:00Martin,
In fact, Himes was occasionally criticize...Martin,<br /><br />In fact, Himes was occasionally criticized for an inaccurate depiction of Harlem. He actually grew up in Cleveland, and Max Allan Collins, who has written a number of Cleveland-set cop novels featuring real-life detective Eliot Ness (set during his tenure as the head of Cleveland's police force during the '30's) has suggested that Cleveland's black ghetto, located the Cleveland PD's Third District, the "so-called" Roaring Third, which was, in addition to being the city'c black ghetto, was also its red-light district, may have been the model for his version of Harlem.<br /><br />In his Edgar-winning biography of Himes, Lawrence P. Jackson says that Himes based Coffin Ed and Grave Digger on two real-life LAPD cops, one of them as aspiring novelist, with whom he became acquainted during his time in Los Angeles, Det. Lt. Jess Kimbrough (who would, after retiring, go on to write an excellent police procedural, the semi-autobigraphical novel DEFENDER OF THE ANGELS) and his assistant, Det. Sgt. Charles Broady, two black cops who worked the Newston Street Division ("Shootin' Newton") in the '20's and '30's, so South Central, the black neighborhood served by the Newton Division may also have contibuted to his fictional "Harlem."JIM DOHERTYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-16843971327924672152018-09-14T19:12:41.301+01:002018-09-14T19:12:41.301+01:00At the end of the 1960s Panther issued a lot of Ch...At the end of the 1960s Panther issued a lot of Chester Himes novels in the UK including this one.Dave Hartleynoreply@blogger.com