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  • John Edgar Wideman's autobiographical work, Brothers and Keepers (1984), includes a portrait of his brother Robby, who is serving a life prison sentence for a murder committed during a robbery. Wideman seeks to understand how he and his brother could have such disparate lives after a childhood together in the ghetto of Home-wood, Pittsburgh.
  • Nathan McCall's autobiographical work, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America (1994), recounts his life as a boy in a black neighborhood, his participation in violent crime, and his imprisonment for armed...

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