Chester Himes (54 page)

Chester at work at La Ciotat, circa 1956.
(Photograph from the collection of Lesley Himes. Reproduced by permission of Lesley Himes)

Chester in Paris in 1958, at the time of publication of his first detective novel,
La Reine des pommes
.
(Photograph from the collection of Lesley Himes. Reproduced by permission of Lesley Himes)

Chester with the VW, Vence, 1957.
(Photograph from the collection of Lesley Himes. Reproduced by permission of Lesley Himes)

Chester and Mikey, Vence, 1957.
(Photograph from the collection of Lesley Himes. Reproduced by permission of Lesley Himes)

Chester, Marcel Duhamel, and Picasso at Picasso's château near Mougins, Cannes, 1961.
(Photograph from the collection of Lesley Himes. Reproduced by permission of Lesley Himes)

Chester with Mikey and pups, Paris, 1960.
(Photograph from the collection of Lesley Himes. Reproduced by permission of Lesley Himes)

1955 Van Vechten sitting.
(Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. From the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Reproduced by permission of the Van Vechten Trust)

1962 Van Vechten sitting.
(Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. From the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Reproduced by permission of the Van Vechten Trust.)

Chester, Lesley, and Griot, circa 1965.
(Photograph from the collection of Lesley Himes. Reproduced by permission of Lesley Himes)

Chester and Lesley with Joe Himes and Arlone at Joe's house in North Carolina, Christmas 1973.
(Photograph from the collection of Lesley Himes. Reproduced by permission of Lesley Himes)

Chester with Joe Himes, North Carolina, 1973.
(Photograph from the collection of Lesley Himes. Reproduced by permission of Lesley Himes)

Chester and Lesley with Joe Himes and cousin, North Carolina, 1973.
(Photograph from the collection of Lesley Himes. Reproduced by permission of Lesley Himes)

Chester on his final visit to the States, 1980, taken while he and Lesley were staying at Ishmael Reed's home in Oakland.
(Photograph by Kaz Tsurata. Reproduced by permission of Kaz Tsurata)

1. Unnatural Histories

1
.
My Life of Absurdity
, p. 391.

2
.
The Harlem Cycle
, Vol. 2, p. xv.