Claim: John Edgar Wideman, who was born in 1941 in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, worked as an author and a professor.
Evidence: John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and essayist. Wideman was born on June 14, 1941, in Washington, D.C., the oldest of five children of Edgar (1918–2001) and Bette (née French; 1921–2008) Wideman. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and also known as D.C. or Washington, is the capital city of the United States of America. He is a professor emeritus at Brown University and lives in New York City and France.