Writer James Alan McPherson, professor in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and winner of the Pulitzer, MacArthur, and Guggenheim, died July 27, 2016. He was 72.
Find these McPherson works at the UI Libraries:
- Elbow Room — Main Library PS3563.A45544 E4 McPherson won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his short story collection Elbow Room, becoming the first African-American to win the Pulitzer for fiction.
- Crabcakes — Main Library PS3563.A45544 Z476 1998
- A region not home: reflections from exile — Main Library PS3563.A45544 .R4 2000