Add to ORKGJohn Edgar Wideman is a native of Homewood, a suburb of Pittsburgh. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. A professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Wideman is the author of seven novels. Damballah, Hiding Place, and Sent for You Yesterday (winner of the PEN Faulkner award) were published under one cover as The Homewood Trilogy. Using music as a dominant, organizing metaphor, his work explores the inner lives of black Americans, attempting to mirror the characters\u27 sense of themselves as spiritual beings in a realm that rises above racial stereotypes and socioeconomic statistics. His widely acclaimed nonfiction...