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African-American History
John Edgar Wideman
An intellectual, educator; novelist, biographer; social critic and commentator;
John Edgar Wideman was born on June 14, 1941 in Washington, DC.
A 1966 graduate of Oxford University, Wideman is the second African-American
Rhodes scholar. Wideman began his teaching career in the English Department
of the University of Pennsylvania, where he founded and chaired the African
American studies department.
Presently, he is a full professor of creative writing at the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. Although primarily known as a reviewer of
books about Black literature and music for New York Times Book Review,
Wideman is also a novelist in his own right.
Wideman's first novel, A Glance Away, was published in 1967 when he
was only twenty-six years old. A two-time PEN/Faulkner Award winner; Wideman
received the MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1994.
Wideman is considered a universal writer since his characters are usually
both black and white, but he is nevertheless referred to as a "black writer."
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