John Edgar Wideman turns that declaration around to, in effect, say: Every autobiography is a biography. Mr. Wideman turns himself into a biographical subject, as he ponders what his family, students, ...

John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed author of more than 25 ... revealing hard, unsettling family secrets along the way — his ...

A: There were all kinds of crackpot ideas of how to save yourself. People walked around with kerchiefs around their face, kerchiefs they'd soaked in camphor. You would hear guns going off all the ...

The complexity of John Edgar Wideman’s books has much ... The ubiquity of incarceration and violence in his family meshes ...