← Cyrus ColterThe Hippodromeby Cyrus ColterFind on Amazon↗About the authorCyrus ColterCyrus Colter was a Chicago lawyer who became a significant African American novelist late in life, writing The Rivers of Eros and The Hippodrome—dark, serious fiction about the moral complexity of Black urban life.More by Cyrus ColterThe Rivers of Eros→Night Studies→A Chocolate Soldier→City of Light→