John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman has 3 books on the award lists tracked here, recognised between 1984 and 2016. Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction for Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers, Sons, Race and Society (1994), the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction for Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File (2016), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction for Brothers and Keepers (1984).
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Award-Listed Books by John Edgar Wideman
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- ShortlistedNational Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1984)Major

- ShortlistedNational Book Award for Nonfiction (1994)Major

- ShortlistedNational Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2016)Major
Nominated Alongside John Edgar Wideman
- 1Matthew Desmond50 score
- 2Freeman Dyson25 score
- 3Jane Mayer25 score
- 4Sherwin B. Nuland23 score
- 5John Putnam Demos20 score
- 6Tobias Wolff19 score
- 7Ibram X. Kendi16 score
- 8Robert Darnton16 score
- 9Viet Thanh Nguyen12 score
- 10David S. Wyman9 score
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