LC control no. | n 82231445 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PS3573.I26 |
Personal name heading | Wideman, John Edgar |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 1941-06-14 |
Place of birth | Washington (D.C.) |
Field of activity | Education, Higher African literature Novels |
Affiliation | University of Pennsylvania Iowa Writers' Workshop University of Wyoming University of Massachusetts at Amherst Brown University |
Profession or occupation | Novelists Essayists Critics College teachers |
Found in | 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: title page (John Edgar Wideman) page 1 (b. 1941) 20, c2001: t.p. (John Edgar Wideman) page 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)) |
Associated language | eng |
Invalid LCCN | n 83214910 |