Wednesday, November 2
 7:30 p.m.
 Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library

Acclaimed author of two dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, Pittsburgh-native John Edgar Wideman is the first writer to have won the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice: for Sent for You Yesterday (1984) and for Philadelphia Fire (1990). He has won an O. Henry Award (2000), and has also received a MacArthur Prize and a Lannan Literary Award. His nonfiction book Brothers and Keepers received a National Book Critics Circle nomination, and his memoir Fatheralong was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 1997, his novel The Cattle Killing won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction.

This presentation is cosponsored by the Joseph L. Grucci Poetry Endowment, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, the University Libraries, the Department of English, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Paterno Fellows Program, the Africana Research Center, and the College of the Liberal Arts