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PRINCIPAL WORKS

∗A Glance Away (novel) 1967
∗Hurry Home (novel) 1970
∗The Lynchers (novel) 1973
†Damballah (short stories) 1981
†Hiding Place (novel) 1981
†Sent for You Yesterday (novel) 1983
Brothers and Keepers (memoir) 1984
Reuben (novel) 1987
Fever (short stories) 1989
Philadelphia Fire (novel) 1990
All Stories Are True (short stories) 1992
‡The Stories of John Edgar Wideman (short stories) 1992
Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society (memoir) 1994
The Cattle Killing (novel) 1996

∗These works were reissued in a collected edition as A Glance Away, Hurry Home, and The Lynchers: Three Early Novels by John Edgar Wideman (1994).

†These works were reissued in a collected paperback edition as The Homewood Trilogy (1985).

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. James W. Coleman (essay date March 1985)
   2. Jacqueline Berben (essay date Fall 1985)
   3. John Bennion (essay date Spring/Summer 1986)
   4. Gary Dretzka (review date 29 November 1987)
   5. Harold Jaffe (review date March-April 1988)
   6. Matthew Wilson (essay date March 1990)
   7. John Edgar Wideman with Charles H. Rowell (interview date Winter 1990)
   8. Jacqueline Berben (essay date April-June 1991)
   9. Ashraf H. A. Rushdy (essay date Fall 1991)
   10. Jan Clausen (essay date Spring 1992)
   11. Michael Gorra (review date June 14 1992)
   12. Sven Birkerts (review date 13 and 20 July 1992)
   13. John Edgar Wideman with Jessica L. Lustig (interview date Fall 1992)
   14. James Robert Saunders (essay date December 1992)
   15. Mel Watkins (review date 13 November 1994)
   16. Mark Shechner (review date March/April 1995)
   17. Sanford Pinsker (review date Spring 1995)
   18. Paul West (review date 29 September 1996)
   19. Gene Seymour (review date 28 October 1996)
   20. Sven Birkerts (review date 3 November 1996)
   21. Joyce Carol Oates (review date 27 March 1997)
   22. Michael Wood (review date 27 November 1997)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

1. Joyce Carol Oates