Wideman, John Edgar

LC control no.	n 82231445
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3573.I26
Personal name heading	Wideman, John Edgar *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
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