Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up. But the writing is a way of not … - John Edgar Wideman

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Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up. But the writing is a way of not allowing those things to destroy you.

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About John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and essayist. He was the first person to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice, and is known for experimental techniques and a focus on the African-American experience. Raised in Pittsburgh, he became the second African American to win a Rhodes Scholarship.

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