Chester Himes is having a moment. Set to receive a 2024 Artist's Medal from Yaddo, praised by writers like S.A. Crosby, Himes is finally receiving his due in the crime fiction genre. Yes, he died in 1984, but the literary life and times of Chester B. Himes is still a good story.

Langston Hughes was a prolific writer in Spain. At the time of his death, Hughes was the most well-known African-American poet and writer in the Spanish speaking world.