For 10 points, name this author of If He Hollers Let Him Go.
The protagonist of this man's major work says "Most white people I know are quite proud of having made Negroes into Bigger Thomases" during a discussion of Native Son and Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit with Tom Leighton. One of his characters is killed by the rabble-rouser Tomsson Black. This author of the autobiographical works The Quality of Hurt and My Life of Absurdity also wrote a novel in which a large sum of money which was intended for Deke O'Hara is stolen and hidden in a bale of cotton. That novel centers on two characters who also appear in the novels Plan B and The Real Cool Killers. He is most famous for a novel in which Madge Perkins accuses Bob Jones of rape, although his most enduring characters may be the Harlem detectives, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones. For 10 points, name this author of If He Hollers Let Him Go.
The protagonist of this man's major work says "Most white people I know are quite proud of having made Negroes into Bigger Thomases" during a discussion of Native Son and Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit with Tom Leighton.
Chester Himes