Reuben (novel)

{{Short description|1987 novel by John Edgar Wideman}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{infobox book |  | name = Reuben | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:Reuben novel cover.jpg | caption = First edition | author = John Edgar Wideman | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Henry Holt | release_date = 1987 | media_type = Print (hardback) | pages = 215 | isbn = 0-395-85730-9 | oclc = 39045168 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}

'''''Reuben''''' is a novel by the American writer John Edgar Wideman set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1980s.

The novel tells the story of Reuben, an aging African-American man who lives in an abandoned trailer, but is a lawyer and go-between on behalf of poor blacks in Homewood, a neighborhood of the East End.

==Sources== * ''Contemporary Authors Online''. The Gale Group, 2005.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reuben}} Category:1987 American novels Category:1987 English-language novels Category:Novels set in Pittsburgh Category:Henry Holt and Company books Category:African-American novels Category:Novels by John Edgar Wideman