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Ancestral House

The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe

Ancestral House( )
Author: Rowell, Charles H.
Foreword by: Wideman, John Edgar
ISBN:978-0-8133-2028-1
Publication Date:Nov 1995
Publisher:Routledge
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $110.00
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Author Biography
Rowell, Charles H. (Author)
Writer John Edgar Wideman was born in Washington, D. C., on June 14, 1941. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, studied at Oxford University, and was the second African American to become a Rhodes Scholar.

He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and eventually founded and chaired the African American studies department. He also taught at the University of Wyoming and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Wideman is the author of more than a dozen books. Sent for You Yesterday won a PEN/Faulkner Award in 1984, and Philadelphia Fire received one a decade later. Fatheralong was a finalist for the National Book Award (1994) and Brothers and Keepers was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (1995).

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