James Alan McPherson (1943–2016)
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James Alan McPherson Jr. was born in Savannah, Georgia on September 16, 1943. He received a bachelor's degree from Morris Brown College in 1965, a law degree from Harvard Law School, and a master of fine arts degree from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. While still in law school, he vis mere won a contest sponsored by The Atlantic Monthly magazine for a semi-autobiographical short story called Gold Coast. His first short story collection, Hue and Cry, was published in 1969. His next anthology, Elbow Room, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1978. He also wrote memoirs including Going Up to Atlanta and Crabcakes. In 1981, he was among the first 21 people who received what became known as genius awards from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He taught at the University of Virginia and the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He died from complications of pneumonia on July 27, 2016 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Of Cabbages and Kings 1 eksemplar
Elbow Room (Scribner Signature Edition) by James Alan McPherson (25-Jul-1987) Paperback (1600) 1 eksemplar
Gold Coast (short story) 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Bidragyder — 270 eksemplarer
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Bidragyder — 188 eksemplarer
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Bidragyder — 113 eksemplarer
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Bidragyder — 98 eksemplarer
On the job: Fiction about work by contemporary American writers (1977) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1943-09-16
- Dødsdag
- 2016-07-27
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Savannah, Georgia, USA
- Dødssted
- Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- Dødsårsag
- pneumonia (complications)
- Bopæl
- Savannah, Georgia, USA (birth)
- Uddannelse
- Morris Brown College (1965)
Morgan State College
Harvard Law School (1968)
University of Iowa (MFA) - Erhverv
- short-story writer
editor
critic - Relationer
- Ellison, Ralph (mentor)
- Organisationer
- University of Iowa
Iowa Writers' Workshop - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
Lannan Literary Fellowship (2002)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1970)
Pulitzer Prize (Letters ∙ 1978)
MacArthur Fellowship (1981)
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- #41,484
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- 24
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The short histories cover such things as the evolution of the idea of steam powered transport starting with the 1641 efforts of the Frenchman Solomon de Caus, the underground railroad in the United States, the wild financial exploits of Drew, Vanderbilt, Fisk, and Gould, and the labor strife of blacks and whites in the U.S. in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
The biographies provide a glimpse into the lives of Casey Jones, Kate Shelly, and Thomas Edison among others. The first-person accounts cover some of the “roads less taken”. There’s a sketch of life in a hobo camp (Charles Chrysler), a reflection on a life with a father who was a boiler maker (Otto Salassi), what it was like working in the dining cars ( Joe Monroe) and others.
The fiction runs the gamut from the grim to the almost unintelligible and this reviewer did not find any of it particularly interesting. The same is true for a lot of the cited poetry.
Overall I don’t begrudge the time spent reading but it is not a book I am likely to revisit.
(Text Length – 185 pages. Includes numerous pictures, illustrations, maps, etc.) (Book Dimensions inches LxWxH – 8.5 x .625 x 10.875).… (mere)