James Alan McPherson (born September 16, 1943 in Savannah, Georgia) is a United States short story writer and essayist, and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973. Events 1400 - Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Savannah is a city located in the state of Georgia, United States. The State of Georgia ( is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who He won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for his short story collection, Elbow Room. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author preferably dealing with American life Elbow Room is a 1977 Short story collection by American Author James Alan McPherson. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981. The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes Nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award given by the John D His work has appeared in twenty-seven journals and magazines, seven short-story anthologies, and The Best American Essays. The Best American Series is an annually-published collection of books In 1995, McPherson was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS is an organization dedicated to scholarship and the advancement of learning He has been educated at Morgan State University, Morris Brown College, Harvard Law School, The University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, and the Yale Law School. Morgan State University, formerly Centenary Biblical Institute (1867-1890 Morgan College (1890-1938 Morgan State College Morris Brown College (MBC is a four-year private coed liberal arts college located in the Vine City Community of Atlanta Georgia. Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional Graduate schools of Harvard University. The University of Iowa, is a major teaching service and Research university located on a campus in Iowa City Iowa, on the banks of the Iowa River The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa is a graduate-level Yale Law School, or YLS, is the Law school of Yale University in New Haven Connecticut. He has taught English at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Harvard, and also lectured in Japan at Meiji University and Chiba University. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. is a Private university in Chiyoda, Tokyo, founded in 1881 by three emerging lawyers of the Meiji Era Tatsuo Kishimoto, Kozo is a National university in Chiba, Japan. It offers Doctoral degrees in education as part of a coalition with Tokyo Gakugei University, Saitama He is now a professor of English at the University of Iowa. The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from
In 2000, John Updike selected his short story "Gold Coast" for his collection Best American Short Stories of the Century (Houghton Mifflin).
Story collections:
- Hue and Cry (1968)
- Elbow Room (1977)
Other:
- Crabcakes (memoir) (1998)
- A Region Not Home (essays) (2000)
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