{"id":3783,"date":"2016-07-28T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2023-08-06T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T16:24:27","slug":"find-james-alan-mcphersons-work-at-the-ui-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/28\/find-james-alan-mcphersons-work-at-the-ui-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Find James Alan McPherson&#8217;s work at the UI Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/James-Alan-McPhersonWEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/James-Alan-McPhersonWEB-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"James-Alan-McPhersonWEB\" class=\"wp-image-3784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/James-Alan-McPhersonWEB-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/James-Alan-McPhersonWEB-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/James-Alan-McPhersonWEB-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/James-Alan-McPhersonWEB-115x115.jpg 115w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/James-Alan-McPhersonWEB.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Writer James Alan McPherson, professor in the Iowa Writers&#8217; Workshop&nbsp;and&nbsp;winner of the Pulitzer, MacArthur, and Guggenheim,&nbsp;died July 27, 2016. He was 72.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/07\/27\/487686023\/writer-james-alan-mcpherson-winner-of-pulitzer-macarthur-and-guggenheim-dies-at?live=1\">NPR story<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/28\/books\/james-alan-mcpherson-pulitzer-prize-winning-writer-dies-at-72.html?_r=0\">NY Times story<br><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/writersworkshop.uiowa.edu\/people\/james-alan-mcpherson\">Iowa Writers&#8217; Workshop page<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.writinguniversity.org\/writers\/james-alan-mcpherson\">McPherson&#8217;s biography on the UI&#8217;s&nbsp;Writing University&nbsp;web site<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Find these McPherson works&nbsp;at the UI Libraries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.lib.uiowa.edu\/01IOWA:default_scope:01IOWA_ALMA21321294470002771\">Elbow Room &#8212; Main Library&nbsp;<span class=\"EXLAvailabilityCallNumber\">PS3563.A45544 E4<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;McPherson won the 1978 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pulitzer_Prize_for_fiction\">Pulitzer Prize for fiction<\/a> for his short story collection <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elbow_Room_%28short_story_collection%29\">Elbow Room<\/a><\/em>, becoming the first <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African-American\">African-American<\/a> to win the Pulitzer for fiction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.lib.uiowa.edu\/01IOWA:default_scope:01IOWA_ALMA21355465950002771\">Crabcakes &nbsp;\u2014 &nbsp;Main Library&nbsp;PS3563.A45544 Z476 1998<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.lib.uiowa.edu\/01IOWA:default_scope:01IOWA_ALMA21459768610002771\">A region not home: reflections from exile&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Main Library&nbsp;<span class=\"EXLAvailabilityCallNumber\">PS3563.A45544 .R4 2000<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer James Alan McPherson, professor in the Iowa Writers&#8217; Workshop&nbsp;and&nbsp;winner of the Pulitzer, MacArthur, and Guggenheim,&nbsp;died July 27, 2016. 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