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Wideman, John Edgar was born on June 14, 1941 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
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With resonant artistry and unflagging directness, Wideman examines the tragedy of race and the gulf it cleaves between black fathers and black sons. He does so chiefly through the lens of his own relations with his remote father, producing a memoir that belongs alongside the classics of Richard Wright and Malcolm X.
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John Edgar Wideman's first novel, A Glance Away, was published in 1967 when the author was just 26 years old. The New York Times Book Review raved "Here is a novelist of high seriousness and depth. He has all sorts of literary gifts, including a poet's flair for a taut, meaningful, emotional language." The action unfolds over the course of a single day, but deftly jumps through time to interweave the life journeys of two very different men whose paths converge one unforgettable evening with surprising and unforgettable results. Eddie Lawson, a young African-American, has spent a year kicking his drug habit and finally returned home. Robert Thurley, a white college professor, is on the verge of crumbling under the weight of haunting family memories, alcoholism, and a tormented struggle with his ambiguous sexual identity. Their encounter forcefully illustrates the consequences of our failure to understand one another, and the transformative possibilities that open up for those brave enough to try.
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Set mainly in the Pittsburgh district of Homewood, these 10 stories depict African Americans from all walks of life--ancestors, family, and lovers caught in the vortex of American history and haunted by their own particular demons. "(Wideman is) one of our very finest writers, period."--New Republic.
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A man lay dead in a parking lot. Tommy didn't kill him, but the police will shoot first and ask questions later. Mother Bess is kin, but she is a crazy, mean old lady hiding out high about the Homewood streets--streets that have taken away everything she ever loved. Together, Tommy and Mother Bess are hiding, in anger and fear. Will they find the courage to come out of hiding?
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Reimagining the black neighborhood of his youth Homewood, Pittsburgh -Wideman creates a dazzling and evocative milieu. From the wild and uninhibited 1920s to the narcotized 1970s, "he establishes aamythological and symbolic link between character and landscape, language and plot, that in the hands of a less visionary writer might be little more than stale sociology" (New York Times Book Review).
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Jan. 1985 Hearst Corp. jumbo trade paperback, John Edgar Wideman (Live from Death Row). the pains, passions, dreams, and memories of the generations of the American family living in an American Ghetto
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In 1970, The New York Times wrote, "Hurry Home is a dazzling display...we have nothing but admiration for Mr. Wideman's talent." Wideman's second novel is the powerful and remarkably prescient story of a highly educated, multiracial man's struggle to find himself and understand his place in a country walled off by sharp racial and class divisions which seem to preempt the very possibility of his existence. Cecil Braithwaite works as a janitor while earning a law degree, yet discovers faithful adherence to the script promising the American Dream is not enough. He travels abroad, looking to Europe and Africa, but can't escape the abiding sense of rootlessness, of being trapped in a halfway house of questions the world's not yet ready or willing to answer. Wideman starkly portrays how difficult it is to shake free of the shackles one is born to, claim an identity that transgresses society's most fundamental boundaries, and find one's true Home.
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Almost 30 years before 9/11, John Edgar Wideman published his third novel, a revolutionary and controversial story about four African-American men who hatch a terrorist plot to shake a complacent America to its foundations. They see their plan to lynch a white cop as the ultimate symbolic act of protest in a racist, hypocritical society mired in fundamental inequalities that contradict its "Home of the Free" credo. Critic Saunders Redding raved, "It is all here...the history of Negro America raised to the grandeur of superb fiction, as Tolstoy did it for the history of the Russian people in the Napoleonic era in War and Peace. I think The Lynchers is far and away the truest, the most moving, and the most brilliantly crafted novel of Negro life in almost a quarter of a century--that is, since Ellison's Invisible Man, which in some ways it surpasses."
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( This collection of interrelated stories spans the histo...)
This collection of interrelated stories spans the history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh community founded by a runaway slave. With stunning lyricism, Wideman sings of "dead children in garbage cans, of gospel and basketball, of lost gods and dead fathers" (John Leonard). It is a celebration of people who, in the face of crisis, uphold one another--with grace, courage, and dignity.
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From one of America’s premier writers of fiction” (New York Times) comes this novel inspired by the 1985 police bombing of a West Philadelphia row house owned by the back-to-nature, Afrocentric cult known as Move. The bombing killed eleven people and started a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the center of the story is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past, and his search for the lone survivor of the fire a young boy who was seen running from the flames. An impassioned, brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America, "Philadelphia Fire isn't a book you read so much as one you breathe" (San Francsisco Chronicle).
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novelist English literature educator
Wideman, John Edgar was born on June 14, 1941 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Bachelor, University Pennsylvania, 1963. Bachelor of Philosophy, Oxford University, England, 1966. Graduate, University Iowa Writers Workshop, 1967.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1985. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Member faculty University Wyoming, Laramie, professor English, 1974—1985, University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1986—2001, distinguished professor English, since 2001. Professor department African studies Brown U, Providence. United States Information Service lecturer in Eastern Europe.
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(Almost 30 years before 9/11, John Edgar Wideman published...)
( From one of America’s premier writers of fiction” (New...)
(With resonant artistry and unflagging directness, Wideman...)
( This collection of interrelated stories spans the histo...)
( Reimagining the black neighborhood of his youth Homewoo...)
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(John Edgar Wideman's first novel, A Glance Away, was publ...)
(John Edgar Wideman's first novel, A Glance Away, was publ...)
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(In 1970, The New York Times wrote, "Hurry Home is a dazzl...)
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Member American Association Rhodes Scholars (director), American Studies Association (council 1980-1981), Modern Language Association, American Academy Arts Sciences (elected), (Phi Beta Kappa).
Married Judith Ann Goldman, 1965 (divorced 2000). Children: Daniel, Jacob, Jamila. Married Catherine Nedonchelle, 2004.
1 stepchild Romeo Alexander.
