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John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman is Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Wideman is the author of The Cattle Killing, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction; Philadelphia Fire, winner of both the PEN/Faulkner and American Book awards; and Sent for You Yesterday, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has published four other novels, an award-winning memoir, and numerous essay and short story collections. His articles have appeared in such media outlets as The New Yorker, Vogue, Esquire, Emerge, and the New York Times Magazine. Among his accomplishments, Professor Wideman was the second African American to win the Rhodes Scholarship, created the African-American Department at the University of Pennsylvania, and was the recipient of numerous awards and prizes including O. Henry Award for best short story of the year, a Reader’s Digest/Lila Wallace Grant, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Rea Prize for short fiction, and the Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction.
Mr. Wideman read from selections of his published works and works in progress.
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