John Edgar Wideman Books in Order
John Edgar Wideman is a celebrated writer and literary award winner, renowned for his powerful storytelling and masterful exploration of the human experience. He is the first writer to win the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice, for Sent for You Yesterday in 1984 and Philadelphia Fire in 1990. Wideman's nonfiction book Brothers and Keepers earned a National Book Award, while his memoir Fatheralong was a National Book Award finalist. He is also the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant and was chosen as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story in 1998 for outstanding achievement in the genre. Notable works include The Cattle Killing, which won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1997, and the short story "Weight," which won the O. Henry Award in 2000.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by John Edgar Wideman
- #1AmazonThe Best American Short Stories 2002(2002)
- #2AmazonGo the Way Your Blood Beats(1996)
- #3AmazonThe Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction(1999)
- #4AmazonPrize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards(2000)
- #5AmazonMy Soul Has Grown Deep(2001)
- #6AmazonMaking Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature(2002)
- #7AmazonThe O. Henry Prize Stories 2019(2019)
- #8After working as a director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Afro-American studies program for two years, John Edgar Wideman published his first novel that focused on interracial issues in 1973 which he titled “The Lynchers.”(19)
- #1AmazonBrothers and Keepers(1984)
- #2AmazonFatheralong(1994)
- #3AmazonConversations with John Edgar Wideman(1998)
- #4AmazonChronicles of the Civil War(1999)
- #5AmazonHoop Roots(2001)
- #6AmazonThe Island Martinique(2003)
- #7AmazonWriting to Save a Life(2016)
- #8AmazonSlaveroad(2024)
- #9AmazonFever(1989)
- #10AmazonStories of John Edgar Wideman(1992)
- #11AmazonAll Stories Are True(1993)
- #12AmazonGod's Gym(2005)
- #13AmazonBriefs(2010)
- #14AmazonAmerican Histories(2018)
- #15AmazonYou Made Me Love You(2021)
- #16AmazonLook For Me and I'll Be Gone(2021)
About John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman is a celebrated writer and literary award winner, renowned for his powerful storytelling and masterful exploration of the human experience. He is the first writer to win the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice, for Sent for You Yesterday in 1984 and Philadelphia Fire in 1990. Wideman's nonfiction book Brothers and Keepers earned a National Book Award, while his memoir Fatheralong was a National Book Award finalist. He is also the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant and was chosen as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story in 1998 for outstanding achievement in the genre. Notable works include The Cattle Killing, which won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1997, and the short story "Weight," which won the O. Henry Award in 2000.
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