- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- James Alan McPherson (1943-2016)
- Creator:
- Cooksey, Thomas L.
- Date of Original:
- 2005-01-21
- Subject:
- Critics--Georgia
African American authors--Georgia
Authors, American--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about James McPherson. Essayist, short-story writer, and critic, James Alan McPherson is among that generation of African American writers and intellectuals, including Charles Johnson and Stanley Crouch, who were inspired and mentored by Ralph Ellison. McPherson's early short story "Gold Coast" won the 1965 Atlantic Monthly Firsts award. In 1978 he was the first African American recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his 1977 story collection, Elbow Room. Frequently anthologized, McPherson has received such prestigious honors as a Guggenheim Fellowship (1972-73), the MacArthur Fellowship (1981), several Pushcart Prizes, and induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995).
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/james-alan-mcpherson-1943-2016/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "James Alan McPherson (b. 1943)," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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