Bibliograph

Type

Label

Writing to save a life, the Louis Till file, John Edgar Wideman

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Writing to save a life

Oclc number

944380559

Responsibility statement

John Edgar Wideman

Sub title

the Louis Till file

Summary

"In The Louis Till File, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett's murder in 1955; Wideman was also fourteen years old. After reading decades later about Louis's execution, he couldn't escape the twin tragedies of father and son, and tells their stories together for the first time. Author of the award-winningBrothers and Keepers, Wideman brings extraordinary insight and a haunting intimacy to this devastating story. An amalgam of research, memoir, and imagination, The Louis Till File is completely original in its delivery--an engaging and enlightening conversation between generations, the living and the dead, fathers and sons. Wideman turns seventy-five this year, and he brings the force of his substantial intellect and experience to this beautiful, stirring book, his first nonfiction in fifteen years,"--Baker & Taylor

Table Of Contents

Louis Till -- The file -- Graves

Classification