IAH Distinguished Visiting Artist and acclaimed author of two dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, Pittsburgh native John Edgar Wideman is the first author to have won the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice: for Sent for You Yesterday (1984) and for Philadelphia Fire (1990). He has won an O. Henry Award (2000) and has also received a MacArthur Prize and Lannan Literary Award. His nonfiction book Brothers and Keepers received a National Book Critics Circle nomination, and his memoirFatheralong was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 1997 his novel The Cattle Killing won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction.
Both events are free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Professor William Cobb (wjc7@psu.edu).
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