James Alan McPherson

James Alan McPherson was an essayist and fiction writer, the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in Savannah, Georgia and a graduate of Harvard Law School, McPherson was a contributor to The Atlantic , Esquire , Playboy , and many other publications. A professor emeritus at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Mr. McPherson died in 2016.

James Alan McPherson was an essayist and fiction writer, the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in Savannah, Georgia and a graduate of Harvard Law School, McPherson was a contributor to The Atlantic , Esquire , Playboy , and many other publications. A professor emeritus at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Mr. McPherson died in 2016. See less