{"id":4828,"date":"2016-07-28T08:56:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2017-02-14T09:40:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T15:40:04","slug":"writer-james-alan-mcpherson-iwp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2016\/07\/28\/writer-james-alan-mcpherson-iwp\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer James Alan McPherson, Iowa Writers Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Alan McPherson taught at the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161011181022\/https:\/\/writersworkshop.uiowa.edu\/people\/james-alan-mcpherson\">Iowa Writers Workshop<\/a> beginning in 1981.\u00a0 In 1978, he received a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his <em>Elbow Room<\/em>.\u00a0 In 1981, he read his short story,\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/vwu\/id\/1099\">There was once a State Called Franklin<\/a>&#8220;, the same year he was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 1995 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4831\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/vwu\/id\/2472\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4831\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2016\/07\/mcpherson-imu.jpg\" alt=\"James Alan McPherson lecture, October 11, 2003\" width=\"585\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2016\/07\/mcpherson-imu.jpg 585w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2016\/07\/mcpherson-imu-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Alan McPherson lecture, October 11, 2003<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Iowa Digital Library also contains a <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/vwu\/id\/2472\">lecture he presented in 2003<\/a> at the Iowa Memorial Union, giving examples of the types of landscapes across the world that have influenced peoples&#8217; thinking and philosophies.<\/p>\n<p>James Alan McPherson died yesterday at the age of 72.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Alan McPherson taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop beginning in 1981.\u00a0 In 1978, he received a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his Elbow Room.\u00a0 In 1981, he read his short story,\u00a0&#8220;There was once a State Called Franklin&#8220;, the same year he was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 1995 he was inducted into the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2016\/07\/28\/writer-james-alan-mcpherson-iwp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Writer James Alan McPherson, Iowa Writers Workshop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,5],"tags":[],"syndication":[30,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4828"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4899,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4828"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=4828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}