Burling Library Author Exhibit

August 2007

 

John Edgar Wideman

American Novelist

 

Search for works owned by Grinnell College here.

 

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Munro, Alice

 

Biographical Information

 

Contributor of articles, short stories, book reviews, and poetry to periodicals, including American Poetry Review, Negro Digest, Black American Literature Forum, Black World, American Scholar, Gentleman's Quarterly, New York Times Book Review, North American Review, and Washington Post Book World. Also author of introduction, Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States, edited by Zora Neale Hurston and Carla Kaplan, HarperCollins, 2001.

See the essay in African American Writers (Charles Scribners Sons, 1991)

2001 Interview from the Pennsylvania Gazette

Salon interview

 

Search the library catalog for books by Wideman in our collection

For mor on Wideman, search Literature Resource Center

 

Selective list of works:

 

A Glance Away, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1967.

Hurry Home, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1970.

The Lynchers, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1973.

Hiding Place, Avon (New York, NY), 1981.

Sent for You Yesterday, Avon (New York, NY), 1983.

Reuben, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 1987.

Philadelphia Fire, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 1990.

A Glance Away, Hurry Home, and The Lynchers: Three Early Novels by John Edgar Wideman, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 1994.

The Cattle Killing, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1996.

Two Cities, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1998.

 

Prepared by Rebecca Stuhr, August 2007