The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3
1973 - novel published
2009 - movie released
2009 - 1973 = 36
You have just got to let me turn your coat, man,
In his Harlem detective novels, Chester Himes brought the detective genre from Perry Mason to NYPD Blue.
"Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones", two Harlem detectives. "At 6:00 the rib joint was starting up the nights work; the vent spouted gouts of black smoke into the night air. 118th Street was bustling with activity. Coffin Ed and I were sitting in our car drinking coffe....."
Have you ever wanted to know what was going on in Bochcoworld while Martin Luther King Jr and Miles Davis were working?
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My first major Wikipedia contribution was to the Chester Himes article, in 2004. Since then I have over 12,000 English and over 2000 Chinese wikipedia edits. Thank you Chester Himes.
-If He Hollers Let Him Go, 1945
The Lonely Crusade, 1947
Cast the First Stone, 1952
The Third Generation, 1954
The End of a Primitive, 1955
For Love of Imabelle, alternate title A Rage in Harlem, 1957
-The Real Cool Killers, 1959
-The Crazy Kill, 1959
-The Big Gold Dream, 1960
-All Shot up, 1960
Run Man Run, 1960
-Pinktoes, 1961
-The Heat's on, 1966
-Cotton Comes to Harlem, 1965
-Blind Man with a Pistol, 1969
Black on Black, 1973
A Case of Rape, 1980
The Collected Stories of Chester Himes, 1990
Plan B, 1993
Yesterday Will Make You Cry, 1998
I think there are more than this.
Himes transitioned the detective genre from Perry Mason and Miss Marple, all the way to Shaft, Mannix and Stephen Bochco, like 50s rock n roll brought us from Tin Pan Alley to Elvis and Rubber Soul and rap brought us from Foghat to Danzig. Himes and others worked to create an environment in which The Wire, Silkwood, All the President's Men and The Godfather would be created. etc Car 54, where aren't you?
born in the 60s
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