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  • John Edgar Wideman
    John Edgar Wideman
    / Books and teaching career

    …he published his first novel, A Glance Away, about a day in the lives of a reformed drug user and a homosexual English professor. His second novel, Hurry Home (1970), is the story of an intellectual alienated from his Black ancestry and the Black community. After serving as director of…

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    …he published his first novel, A Glance Away, about a day in the lives of a reformed drug user and a homosexual English professor. His second novel, Hurry Home (1970), is the story of an intellectual alienated from his Black ancestry and the Black community. After serving as director of…

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