John Edgar Wideman is a Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts and the only 2-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction, which he received in 1984 for Sent for You Yesterday, and in 1990 for Philadelphia Fire. His non-fiction work, Brothers and Keepers, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and a memoir entitled Fatheralong was nominated for the National Book Award. His most recent book, The Cattle Killing, is his first in six years, and continues his personal tradition of brilliant and challenging works. "Recently read top books" Last Orders by Graham Swift Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Neuromancer by William Gibson The Moor's Last Sigh by Salmon Rushdie All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell Regeneration by Pat Barker The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles Looking at Giacometti by David Sylvester Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard Imperial Leather by Anne McClintock Return to the Writers Read List

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