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Writing to save a life : the Louis Till file
- Title
- Writing to save a life : the Louis Till file / John Edgar Wideman.
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Publication
- New York : Scribner, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- 193 pages; 22 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Black author
- United States > Army > Transportation Command > Battalion, 379th > Company, 177th > Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 > Italy
- Biographies
- World War, 1939-1945 > African Americans > Biography
- True crime stories
- African American men > Social conditions > 20th century
- War crimes > United States > History > 20th century
- African American soldiers > Biography
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 > Death and burial
- Till, Louis, 1922-1945 > Death and burial
- War crimes > Italy > Civitavecchia
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- True crime stories.
- Contents
- Louis Till -- The file -- Graves.
- Call Number
- Sc D 16-1627
- ISBN
- 9781501147289
- 1501147285
- LCCN
- 2016015604
- OCLC
- 944380559
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar, author.
- Title
- Writing to save a life : the Louis Till file / John Edgar Wideman.
- Publisher
- New York : Scribner, 2016.
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 16-1627