| LC control no. | n 86107938 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3563.A325 |
| Personal name heading | McPherson, James Alan, 1943-2016 |
| Other standard no. | Q355793 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q355793 |
| Biography/History note | McPherson was an African American author and Pulitzer Prize awardee. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1943-09-16 |
| Death date | 2016-07-27 |
| Place of birth | Savannah (Ga.) |
| Place of death | Iowa City (Iowa) |
| Affiliation | Morris Brown College Harvard Law School University of Iowa University of California, Santa Cruz American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Profession or occupation | Essayists Novelists College teachers |
| Found in | 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.) |
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