Stories about "John Edgar Wideman"
MLK Day 1999: John Edgar Wideman and ‘Looking for Emmett Till’

Monday, January 18, 1999 3:17 pm

Author John Edgar Wideman's talk was about an image and a name — literal and metaphorical — that stays in Wideman's mind. That of Emmett Till.

Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman to speak at Bates on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Wednesday, January 6, 1999 3:55 pm

Novelist John Edgar Wideman, two-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Sharon Robinson, daughter of baseball great Jackie Robinson, will speak at Bates College on Martin Luther King Jr. Day as part of a two-day series of activities and workshops focused on Two Societies: A Focus on Class through the Lenses of Race and Gender. The public is invited to attend all events free of charge.

Author John Edgar Wideman to deliver MLK Day keynote

Thursday, December 3, 1998 12:26 pm

John Edgar Wideman, two-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, will address Bates College as the keynote speaker for Bates' Martin Luther King Day celebration on Monday, Jan. 18, at 10:30 a.m. in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building.