# James Alan McPherson

> James Alan McPherson 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.

*American short story writer and essayist (1943–2016)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1943-09-16
- **Died:** 2016-07-27
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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