McPherson, William
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Name (Latin)
McPherson, William
Date of birth
1933-03-16
Date of death
2017-03-28
Field of activity
American fiction
Criticism
Editing
Occupation
Critics
Editors
Novelists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Washington post WWW site, viewed Mar. 29, 2017(William McPherson; Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic for The Washington Post; editor of The Post's Book World section in the 1970s and wrote two novels in the 1980s; Mr. McPherson, 84, died March 28 [2017] in Washington; had come to The Post in 1958 as a copy boy and was travel editor within five years; after an interlude in New York as a senior editor at the publishing firm William Morrow & Co., he was lured back to The Post in 1969 by executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee to run Book World; William Alexander McPherson was born on March 16, 1933, in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.)
- His Testing the current, 1984:CIP t.p. (William McPherson)
Wikipedia description:
William McPherson (March 16, 1933 – March 28, 2017) was an American writer and journalist. He is the author of two novels, Testing the Current and To the Sargasso Sea, and many articles, essays, and book reviews. McPherson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism in 1977.
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