Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society

John Edgar Wideman

Picador, 1995 - Family & Relationships - 197 pages

By the author of Brothers and Keepers. This memoir is the story of an American family. Wrestling himself free from racial ideology, Wideman engages his family, past and present, in order to understand who he is today and to heal familial wounds.

Contents

• Promised Land: 3
• Fatheralong: 36
• Littleman: 87

About the author

Writer John Edgar Wideman was born in Washington, D. C., on June 14, 1941. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, studied at Oxford University, and was the second African American to become a Rhodes Scholar. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and eventually founded and chaired the African American studies department. He also taught at the University of Wyoming and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Wideman is the author of more than a dozen books. Sent for You Yesterday won a PEN/Faulkner Award in 1984, and Philadelphia Fire received one a decade later. Fatheralong was a finalist for the National Book Award (1994) and Brothers and Keepers was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (1995).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society
• Author: John Edgar Wideman
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Picador, 1995
• ISBN: 033034143X, 9780330341431
• Length: 197 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / Parenting / Fatherhood; Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations