# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-alan-mcpherson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:32:55.714Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-alan-mcpherson"
name: "James Alan McPherson"
slug: "james-alan-mcpherson"
description: "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."
tagline: "American short story writer and essayist (1943–2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/James_Alan_McPherson.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-09-16"
deathDate: "2016-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump