John Edgar Wideman is a contemporary Afro American author and an outstanding scholar well-known for his intricate literary style of his novels concerning experiences of black men in contemporary urban America. His award winning novel is “Philadelphia Fire” which deals with the 1985 police bombing of a West Philadelphia row house owned by the Afrocentric cult Move. ...

Homer is acknowledged as the Western world’s great man of letters albeit controversies concerning his identity but modern scholarship has proved the authenticity of his works and his life as a travelling bard in Ancient Greece. Eminent historians like Herodotus and Thucydides locate him in time and in place ; the former who lived between 485-425 BC situated him four centuries before his epoch about 850 BC. The latter established him as the author of the Delian Hymns to Apollo who requested his audience to commemorate him as a poet and “a blind old man of craggy Chios”....