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 Jane Lazarre is an award-winning writer of fiction, memoir and personal essay. Her most recent books are Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: A Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons, and, Wet Earth and Dreams: A Narrative of Grief and Recovery, both published by Duke University Press. Duke has also reissued her first memoir, The Mother Knot. She has read her work and spoken about writing, race and American identities in many universities, conferences and secondary schools. She is on the faculty of Eugene Lang College, New School University, where she directed the Creative Writing Program for many years and now teaches writing and literature. She is the recipient of the prestigious University Teaching Award. She has recently completed a novel, Three White Women, and edited a collection of essays, Writers Teaching Writing. She is at work on a collection of her own essays entitled, Writing As A Beautiful Resistance.
BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR JANE LAZARRE
1. Wet Earth and Dreams: A Narrative of Grief and Recovery. Duke University Press (Aug. 1998) 2. Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons. Duke University Press (Aug. 1996) 3. One Loving Men. Doubleday (February 1980) 4. The Mother Knot. Beacon Press; Reprint edition (January 1986) 5. some kind of innocence: a novella. Dial Press 6. The Powers of Charlotte. Crossing Press, Reprint edition (Sept. 1988) 7. Worlds Beyond My Control. Painted Leaf Press (March 1991)
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 John Edgar Wideman was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and became an All-Ivy League forward on the basketball team, and studied philosophy as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where he founded and chaired the African American Studies Department, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, among other universities. He is the first writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Award twice, in 1984 for Sent for You Yesterday and in 1990 for Philadelphia Fire. His nonfiction book Brothers and Keepers received a National Book Critics Circle nomination, and his memoir Fatheralong was a finalist for the National Book Award.
BIBIOGRAPHY FOR JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN
1. Brothers and Keepers. Alfred A. Knopf (Aug. 1995) 2. Philadelphia Fire. Ed. Erroll McDonald. Knopf Publishing Group (June 1991) 3. Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and Love. Houghton Mifflin (Feb. 2003) 4. The Island: Martinique. National Geographic Society (Feb. 2003) 5. The Cattle Killing. Houghton Mifflin Co. (Oct. 1997) 6. Sent for You Yesterday. Houghton Mifflin Co., Reprint edition (Oct. 1997) 7. Fever: Twelve Stories. Penguin Group, USA, Inc., Reprint Edition (Sept. 1990) 8. Damballah (1981) 9. Hiding Place (1981) 17. My Sould has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African-American Literature. Ballantine Books (Oct. 2002) 10. Conversations with John Edgar Weideman. Ed. Bonnie Tusmith. University of Mississippi Press (Aut. 1998) 11. Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society. Ed. Erroll McDonald. Random House (Aug. 1995)
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