NEW YORK-FEBRUARY 20TH: Writer John E. Wideman is posing for a photographer at his appartement in Manhattan, February 20th, 2007. An intellectual, educator, novelist, biographer, social critic and commentator, John Edgar Wideman was born on June 14, 1941 in Washington, DC. Wideman’s first novel, A Glance Away, was published in 1967 when he was only twenty six years old. A two-time PEN/Faulkner Award winner, Wideman received the Mac Arthur PriZe Fellowship in 1994.