John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman is one of the most formally innovative African American novelists, writing about Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood and about violence, history, and identity with experimental brilliance. He twice won the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Works
- Sent for You YesterdayNovel set in Pittsburgh tracing memory, music, and interconnected Black lives across time
- Brothers and KeepersMemoir about the author's brother's imprisonment and family's struggle with justice
- Philadelphia FireNovel set in Philadelphia exploring urban violence and community trauma amid racial conflict
- Hiding PlaceNovel about a man hiding in a cellar confronting his past and family legacy
- The LynchersNovel about conspirators plotting the assassination of a corrupt Philadelphia mayor