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John Edgar Wideman Books in Order
John Edgar Wideman is a celebrated writer and literary award winner, renowned for his powerful storytelling and masterful exploration of the human experience. He is the first writer to win the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice, for Sent for You Yesterday in 1984 and Philadelphia Fire in 1990. Wideman's nonfiction book Brothers and Keepers earned a National Book Award, while his memoir Fatheralong was a National Book Award finalist. He is also the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant and was chosen as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story in 1998 for outstanding achievement in the genre. Notable works include The Cattle Killing, which won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1997, and the short story "Weight," which won the O. Henry Award in 2000.
Bibliography verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of John Edgar Wideman's book series? John Edgar Wideman has written 4 book series. The most notable is the Best American series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by John Edgar Wideman
- #1
The Best American Short Stories 2002(2002) - #2
Go the Way Your Blood Beats(1996) - #3
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction(1999) - #4
Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards(2000) - #5
My Soul Has Grown Deep(2001) - #6
Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature(2002) - #7
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019(2019) - #8After working as a director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Afro-American studies program for two years, John Edgar Wideman published his first novel that focused on interracial issues in 1973 which he titled “The Lynchers.”(19)
- #1
Sent for You Yesterday(1981) - #2Hiding Place(1981)
- #3
Damballah(1984)
- #1Brothers and Keepers(1984)
- #2
Fatheralong(1994) - #3
Conversations with John Edgar Wideman(1998) - #4
Chronicles of the Civil War(1999) - #5
Hoop Roots(2001) - #6
The Island Martinique(2003) - #7
Writing to Save a Life(2016) - #8
Slaveroad(2024) - #9
Fever(1989) - #10
Stories of John Edgar Wideman(1992) - #11All Stories Are True(1993)
- #12
God's Gym(2005) - #13
Briefs(2010) - #14
American Histories(2018) - #15
You Made Me Love You(2021) - #16
Look For Me and I'll Be Gone(2021)
- #1The Lynchers(1973)
- #2A Glance Away(1975)
- #3Hurry Home(1986)
- #4Reuben(1987)
- #5Philadelphia Fire(1990)
- #6The Cattle Killing(1996)
- #7
Two Cities(1997) - #8Fanon(2008)
About John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman is a celebrated writer and literary award winner, renowned for his powerful storytelling and masterful exploration of the human experience. He is the first writer to win the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice, for Sent for You Yesterday in 1984 and Philadelphia Fire in 1990. Wideman's nonfiction book Brothers and Keepers earned a National Book Award, while his memoir Fatheralong was a National Book Award finalist. He is also the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant and was chosen as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story in 1998 for outstanding achievement in the genre. Notable works include The Cattle Killing, which won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1997, and the short story "Weight," which won the O. Henry Award in 2000.
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