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Himes

American  
[hahymz] / haɪmz /

noun

  1. Chester (Bomar) 1909–84, U.S. novelist.


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While discussing God, Ed would quote Michael Himes, “There is nothing we can do to make God not love us,” and the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, “Mercy, within Mercy, within Mercy.”

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

The five novels here, published between 1954 and 1964 as paperback originals, stand in the noir tradition of James M. Cain, Chester Himes and David Goodis.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 2, 2026

Kelly Himes lives several miles from Nancy Guthrie's home in the shadow of the Catalina Mountains.

From BBC Feb. 14, 2026

Legislators looked ashen and somber, and one of their number, Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., declared it “one of the most troubling things” he’d ever witnessed.

From Salon Dec. 8, 2025

“But look here, Asaph, do you suppose  that if Marietta Himes was to marry a man, he would really come into her property?”

From A Chosen Few Short Stories by Frank Richard Stockton

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