The Stories of John Edgar Wideman
| Year of Publication |
1992
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| Publication Type |
Short Stories
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
432 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
John Edgar Wideman |
| Publisher |
Pantheon Books
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
An anthology of Wideman's short story collections from the past decade. This volume contains 35 stories, many of which depict Homewood life.
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| 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.
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| Time |
1840s-1991
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