McPherson, James Alan, 1943-2016
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Name (Hebrew)
מקפרסון, ג'יימס אלן, 1943-2016
Name (Latin)
McPherson, James Alan, 1943-2016
Date of birth
1943-09-16
Date of death
2016-07-27
Place of birth
Savannah (Ga.)
Place of death
Iowa City (Iowa)
Associated country
United States
Associate group
Morris Brown College
Harvard Law School
University of Iowa
University of California, Santa Cruz
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Occupation
Essayists Novelists College teachers
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
McPherson was an African American author and Pulitzer Prize awardee.
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Sources of Information
- His Elbow room, 1987:CIP t.p. (James Alan McPherson)
- LC data base 9/9/86(hdg.: McPherson, James Alan, 1943-)
- African American National Biography, accessed February 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(McPherson, James Alan; fiction writer, essayist, Pulitzer prize winner; born 16 September 1943 in Savannah, Georgia, United States; BA from Morris Brown College (1965); law degree from Harvard Law School (1968); MA from University of Iowa (1969); was lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz (1969-1976) and professor of English at the University of Iowa (1981); coedited Fathering Daughters: Reflections by Men (1998); received Academy Award for Literature from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1970); Pulitzer Prize for fiction (1978); became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995))
- New York times WWW site, viewed July 28, 2016(in obituary published July 27: James Alan McPherson; b. James Alan McPherson Jr., Sept. 16, 1943, Savannah, Ga.; d. Wednesday [July 27, 2016], Iowa City, aged 72; overcame segregation and the narrow prism of a legal education to become the first black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction; professor emeritus, University of Iowa)
- McPherson, James Alan. Crabcakes, 1992:page 192 (I have grown painfully cautious and aware of myself as a black American male.)
- בריס דיג'יי פנקייק - סיפורים, 2023(אחרית דבר מאת ג'יימס אלן מקפרסון)