John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and essayist. He was the first person to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice. His writing is known for experimental techniques and a focus on the African-American experience.

John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941, Washington, D.C., U.S.) is an American writer regarded for his lyrical, intricate literary style in novels about the experiences of African American men in contemporary urban America.

2021年4月26日 · Wideman’s writing pairs a close attention to the life of the mind, with an unflinching eye to the horrors of racism and poverty.

2017年1月26日 · Late in a career marked by both triumph and tragedy, the fiercely independent author has written a new book exploring the unsettling case of Emmett Till’s father — and the isolation of black men in...

2007年12月15日 · John Edgar Wideman is currently the Asa Messer Professor and Professor of Africana Studies and English at Brown University. He is the author of over twenty books and the recipient of many honors and awards including the O. Henry Award, the American Book Award for Fiction, and the Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction.

2002年4月1日 · One of the great, award-winning writers of the last century and this, John Edgar Wideman grew up in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh and set a number of his early novels and stories there.

2018年5月29日 · John Edgar Wideman is one of the leading chroniclers of life in urban black America. An author who intertwines ghetto experiences with experimental fiction techniques, personal history with social events, Wideman is the only artist who has won the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for literature twice.

In his acclaimed Homewood trilogy—the novels Hiding Place (1981) and Sent for You Yesterday (1983), and the short-story collection Damballah (1981)—he evokes the spiritual and physical life of the working-class black community in Pittsburgh where he grew up.

2010年3月13日 · A widely-celebrated writer and the winner of many literary awards, he is the first to win the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice: in 1984 for Sent for You Yesterday and in 1990 for Philadelphia Fire. In 2000 he won the O. Henry Award for his short story "Weight", published in The Callaloo Journal.

John Edgar Wideman is the distinguished author of nearly 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels Two Cities, The Cattle Killing, Fever and Philadelphia Fire. His articles, short stories, book reviews, and poetry have appeared widely in periodicals.