Writers Voice M&T Bank Award to John Edgar Wideman

November 4, 2009 - 7:00pm

John Edgar Wideman is the author of more than eighteen books of fiction and nonfiction including Two Cities, The Lynchers, God’s Gym, and Fanon.His memoir, Brothers and Keepers, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Fatheralong was a finalist for the National Book Award. Wideman was twice awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction— in 1984 for his novel Sent for You Yesterday andin 1990 for Philadelphia Fire. In addition, his work has won the Rea Award for the short story, the American Book Award for Fiction, the Lannan Foundation Fellowship and the MacArthur “genius” Award. Wideman is a professor in the Africana Studies Department at Brown University.

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Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir (Paperback)

By John Edgar Wideman
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780618509638
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Published: Mariner Books, 01/01/2005

Fanon (Hardcover)

By John Edgar Wideman
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9780618942633
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 02/01/2008

Sent for You Yesterday (Paperback)

By John Edgar Wideman
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780395877296
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Published: Mariner Books, 04/01/1998
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