Author
James Alan McPherson
American short story writer and essayist
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1943
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2016
genre:
essay, short story
country of citizenship:
United States of America
language of expression:
American English
educated at:
Harvard Law School, University of Iowa, Morris Brown College
occupation:
writer, essayist, professor
award received:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
James Alan McPherson (September 16, 1943 – July 27, 2016) was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who received a MacArthur Fellowship. At the time of his death, McPherson was a professor emeritus of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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5The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
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author:
Breece D'J Pancake, James Alan McPherson, John Casey, Andre Dubus III