Vintage Postcard Black Writers
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ
JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN, Amherst, Mass., November 5, 1995
John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) is one of America's most inventive writers, using a complex mix of techniques to create "an elaborate poetic portrait of the lives of ordinary black people." A former basketball star and Rhodes scholar, Wideman won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Sent For You Yesterday 1984). His other works include Reuben (1987), Philadelphia Fire
(1990), and All Stories Are True (1992).
