John Edgar Wideman
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in Pittsburgh, PA, The United States
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March 2010
Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir
32 editions
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1984
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Philadelphia Fire
21 editions
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1990
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Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File
18 editions
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2016
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SENT FOR YOU YESTERDAY
15 editions
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1981
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DAMBALLAH
11 editions
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1986
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The Best American Short Stories 1996
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2 editions
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1996
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Fanon
18 editions
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2008
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The Cattle Killing
10 editions
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1996
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American Histories: Stories
11 editions
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2018
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Fever
8 editions
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1989
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“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.”
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“Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down.”
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