Machine generated contents note: 1.Gathering the Family -- 2."The Astonishing John Wideman": The Years of Education -- 3.Establishing a Career -- 4.Family Tragedies -- 5.Success as a Storyteller -- 6.Philadelphia Stories -- 7.The Writer as Social Critic -- 8.Wideman's Mash-Ups.
Summary
"Challenging. Successful. Controversial. All terms used to accurately describe African American novelist and autobiographer John Edgar Wideman. This book examines his life and work--and the connections between them"--