God's Gym
| Title | God's Gym |
| Year of Publication | 2005 |
| Publication Type | Short Stories |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 176 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Wideman, John Edgar |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| City | Boston |
| Keywords | Black Americans; Protestants |
| Abstract | Ten stories by Wideman that revisit Pittsburgh life and move to Martinique, Minneapolis, and other settings. The title story is set in Shadyside on Walnut Street and another in Homewood. |
| Author Biography | John Edgar Wideman (1941- ), raised in Pittsburgh's Homewood and Shadyside neighborhoods, graduated from Liberty Elementary and Peabody High School. A star basketball player, he was all-Ivy League at the University of Pennsylvania before winning a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. At the Iowa Writers' Workshop he earned a MFA. Wideman is the winner of many literary awards and a professor at Brown University. |
| Time | 2000s |
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