From Harlem to Paris by Michel Fabre

MICHEL FABRE is a full professor of the faculty of La Sorbonne Nuvelle, Paris, and is director of Le Centre d'Etudes Afro-Americaines. He has specialized in American and African-American literature for more than thirty years. Among his many publications are The Unfinished Quest of RIchard Wright (1973), The World of Richard Wright (1985), Richard Wright: Books and Writers (1990), and From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France 1840-1980 (1991). He is currently at work on a biography of Chester Himes.

ROBERT E. SKINNER, is University Librarian at Xavier University of Louisiana, in New Orleans and a frequent writer on the history and development of the American hard-boiled detective tale. His books include The Hard-Boiled Explicator: A Guide to the Study of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and ROse Macdonald (1985), Two Guns from Harlem: The Detective Fiction of Chester Himes (1989), and the forthcoming The New Hard-Boiled Dicks: Heroes for a New Urban Mythology. He is working with Michel FAbre on a critical edition of Chester Himes' last Harlem Domestic novel, Plan B.

LESTER SULLIVAN is the University Archivist at Xavier University of Louisiana. He has written articles in Black Art, Black Music Research Journal, The International Review of Oral History, Louisiana's Black Heritage and Xavier Review. He is the author of the guide and the producer of the videotapes in ARC Light: A Series of Multi-Image Shows about Afro-Americans, Other Ethnic Groups, and Race Relations History (1983).