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.

• NPR story
• NY Times story
  
• Iowa Writers’ Workshop page
• McPherson’s biography on the UI’s Writing University web site

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