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James Alan McPherson

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American short story writer and essayist (1943-2016)

United StatesWritersLived 1943 to 2016 · aged 72
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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.

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1981MacArthur Fellows Program
1978Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Guggenheim Fellowship

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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.

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United States
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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deceased
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Lived 1943 to 2016 · aged 72
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15 languages

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