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Fever by John Edgar Wideman

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Name: John Edgar Wideman
Birth Date: June 14, 1941
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male

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Biography of John Edgar Wideman
7641 words, approx. 25.5 pages
John Edgar Wideman has firmly established himself as one of the most respected contemporary writers, as evidenced by his receipt of the P.E.N./Faulkner Award in 1984 and 1991. The author of ten books of fiction and an autobiographical dialogue/meditation...
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Biography of John Edgar Wideman
4000 words, approx. 13.3 pages
During the 1960s, the architects of the black arts movement--Imamu Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Larry Neal, Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Addison Gayle, and others--demanded that black writers use their talents and works for the betterment of the black commun...


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The Boston Globe
A Dozen Gems From John Wideman
10/29/1989: 998 words, approx. 3 pages
FEVER Twelve Stories. By John Edgar Wideman. 161 pp. Holt. $16.95. Long admired for the force of his writing, John Edgar Wideman relies upon a stainless-steel lyricism to envelop his reader, and that grace of language renders his fiction remarkable beyond mere...
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The Review of Contemporary Fiction
The Stories of John Edgar Wideman. (book reviews)
03/22/1993: 337 words, approx. 1 pages
Fever (1989) and Dumballah (1981), two previously published collections of stories by John Edgar Wideman, are bound together here with ten new stories entitled All Stories Are True. These new stories alone are worth the price of this volume. Once again Wideman loops us...
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The New York Observer
Monday: Green Building Fever
4/17/2006: 514 words, approx. 2 pages
The city is test-driving "green" buildings, with ventilated air, stone floors that generate heat in the winter and absorb it in the summer, and even a waterfall that humidifies and chills the lobby. But while the Hearst Tower should be all filled up, Larry Silverstein...
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AP News
Researchers optimistic on valley fever
12/20/2006: 659 words, approx. 2 pages
Cautious optimism is building over the prospect of defeating the respiratory disease known as valley fever, largely because of $40 million in grants that will be used toward vaccine testing.A measure sponsored by Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., authorizing a $40 million research grant program toward...
 


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Fever by John Edgar Wideman

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