James Alan McPherson, American short story writer and essayist (died 2016)

James Alan McPherson

American essayist and short-story writer

James Alan McPherson was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who received a MacArthur Fellowship. At the time of his death, McPherson was a…