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On this day in 1909, writer Chester Bomar Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri. Over the course of his life, Himes turned personal hardship, racial injustice and his years in prison into a body of work that helped reshape American crime fiction. Himes grew up in a middle-class family and his father, Joseph Sandy [...] The post This Day in History: July 29th appeared first on TheHub.news .