John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar Wideman is a literary fiction author from the United States whose life was as dramatic as any of his novels known for their Faulknerian quality.The author was born in 1941 in Washington DC but his family moved to the African American community of Homewood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when he was just one year old. This community would then be the setting for much of his fiction work.In his teenage years, he went to one of the best secondary schools in Pittsburgh known as Peabody High School. It was here that it was discovered that he was not only good in sports but he was also a good student.