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Writing to save a life : the Louis Till file / John Edgar Wideman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wideman, John Edgar, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Till, Louis, 1922-1945.
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955.
- United States. Army. Transportation Command. Battalion, 379th. Company, 177th--Biography.
- United States.
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955--Death and burial.
- Till, Emmett.
- Wideman, John Edgar.
- Till, Louis, 1922-1945--Death and burial.
- Till, Louis.
- Till, Emmett 1941-1955--Death and burial.
- United States. Army. Transportation Command. Battalion, 379th. Company, 177th.
- World War, 1939-1945--African Americans--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- African American soldiers--Biography.
- African American soldiers.
- African American men--Social conditions.
- War crimes.
- History.
- African Americans.
- Italy--Civitavecchia.
- War crimes--Italy--Civitavecchia.
- War crimes--United States--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Italy.
- African American men--Social conditions--20th century.
- African American men.
- HISTORY / African American.
- TRUE CRIME / Murder.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage.
- Local Subjects:
- HISTORY / African American.
- War crimes--Italy--Civitavecchia.
- War crimes--United States--History--20th century.
- TRUE CRIME / Murder.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- True crime stories.
- Physical Description:
- 193 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2016.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Louis Till
- The file
- Graves.
- ISBN:
- 9781501147289
- 1501147285
- OCLC:
- 944380559
- Publisher Number:
- 40026642592
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