Wideman, John Edgar (Personal Name)

Brothers and keepers, c1984: CIP t.p. (John Edgar Wideman)

LC data base, 2/8/84 (hdg.: Wideman, John Edgar)

Sent for you yesterday, c1983: t.p. (John Edgar Wideman) p. 1 (b. 1941)

20, c2001: t.p. (John Edgar Wideman) p. 4 of cover (grew up in Homewood section of Pittsburgh; most recent book, Hoop roots)

Jackie Shearer papers, 1966-1993: (John Edgar Wideman)

Wikipedia, Jan. 24, 2014 (John Edgar Wideman (b. June 14, 1941, Washington, D.C.) is an African American writer; professor Africana Studies and Literary Arts at Brown University) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edgar_Wideman

African American National Biography, accessed September 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Wideman, John Edgar; fiction writer, essayist, biographer, cultural critic, educator; born 14 June 1941 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States; BA in English, University of Pennsylvania (1963); studied philosophy at Oxford University's New College, graduated (1966); served as a Kent Fellow, University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop (1966-1967); awarded Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction (1991); taught at the English department, created and served as the first chair of the African American Studies program, University of Pennsylvania; moved to the University of Wyoming; professor of creative writing and American studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Asa Messer Professor and professor of Africana studies and English, Department of Africana Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (2004))