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  • John Edgar Wideman
    In John Edgar Wideman: Books and teaching career

    In 2016 Wideman published Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File, a biography of the father of Emmett Till, a Black teenager whose murder in 1955 catalyzed the emerging civil rights movement. The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in general nonfiction.…

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