John Edgar Wideman

About The Author

John Edgar Wideman’s books include, among others, Languages of Home, Slaveroad, Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone, You Made Me Love You, The Homewood Trilogy, American Histories, Writing to Save a Life, Brothers and Keepers, Philadelphia Fire, Hoop Roots, and Sent for You Yesterday. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award twice and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. He divides his time between New York and France.

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Fatheralong

A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society

By John Edgar Wideman

The reissued classic from “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman—a “superb” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir in five essays about fathers, and Wideman's vexed relationship with his own.

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