Edgar Wideman , (1941 - )
Writer, born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He earned degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Oxford University, UK (Rhodes Scholar), thus attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He kindly at the universities of ennsylvania (196674), Wyoming (197485), and Massachusetts (1986). His complex and literate fabrication oftentimes drew on the African-American urban culture of his youth, and includes Hurry Home (1970), The Lynchers (1973), Sent for You Yesterday (1983, PEN, Faulkner Award), Philadelphia Fire (1990, PEN, Faulkner Award), and Stories (1992). Later foundry accept the narrative Fatheralong (1994), and the novels The Cattle Killing (1996) and Two Cities (1998). In 1993 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation grain grant.