| John Edgar Wideman  Born: 14-Jun-1941
Birthplace: Washington, DC
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Sent for You Yesterday The second African-American to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. High School: Peabody High School, Pittsburgh, PA
University: BA English, University of Pennsylvania (1963)
University: B Ph, Oxford University (1966)
Professor: University of Pennsylvania (1966-75)
Professor: University of Wyoming (1975-85)
Professor: University of Massachusetts (1985-)
Professor: Brown University
PEN/Faulkner Award 1984 for Sent for You Yesterday
PEN/Faulkner Award 1991 for Philadelphia Fire
Rhodes Scholarship
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Author of books:
A Glance Away (1967, novel)
Hurry Home (1970, novel)
The Lynchers (1973, novel)
Hiding Place (1981, novel, Homewood Trilogy)
Sent for You Yesterday (1983, novel, Homewood Trilogy)
Damballah (1981, short stories, Homewood Trilogy)
Brothers and Keepers (1984, nonfiction)
Sent for You Yesterday (1984, novel)
Fever (1989, short stories)
Philadelphia Fire (1990, novel)
The Stories of John Edgar Wideman (1992, short stories)
Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society (1994, nonfiction)
The Cattle Killing (1996, novel)
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