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Born	June 14, 1941 (age 83) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Awards And Honors	PEN/Faulkner Award (1991) • PEN/Faulkner Award (1984)
Notable Works	“A Glance Away” • “American Histories” • “Brothers and Keepers” • “Damballah” • “Fanon” • “Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society” • “Fever” • “Hiding Place” • “Homewood Trilogy” • “Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and Love” • “Hurry Home” • “Sent for You Yesterday” • “Slaveroad” • “The Cattle Killing” • “The Lynchers” • “The Stories of John Edgar Wideman” • “Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File” • “You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981–2018”

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