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James Alan McPherson

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September 16, 1943 in Savannah, The United States

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Short Stories, Biographies & Memoirs

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James Alan McPherson is among the most revered authors living and writing in the United States. He spent his early career writing short stories and essays, almost without exception, for The Atlantic. At the age of 35, McPherson received a Pulitzer Prize for his collection of stories, Elbow Room (1978). He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1973) and the MacArthur Foundation Award (the so-called "Genius Award"; 1981) and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. He is perhaps most often quoted for propounding this philosophy of American citizenship: "I believe that if one can experience diversity, touch a variety of its people, laugh at its craziness, distill wisdom from its tragedies, and attempt to...more

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Books by James Alan McPherson

Average rating: 4.14 · 1442 ratings · 206 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Elbow Room 379 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1977 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Hue and Cry: Stories 416 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Crabcakes: A Memoir 348 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile 386 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Fathering Daughters: Reflections by Men by James Alan McPherson, Dewitt Henry (Editor) 400 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	My rating:
	Why I like Country Music 300 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Railroad: Trains and Train People in American Culture 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1976	My rating:
	Ploughshares Fall 1990: Confronting Racial Difference by James Alan McPherson, Dewitt Henry (Editor) 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1990	My rating:
	Untitled Novel 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake, James Alan McPherson (Forward), John Casey (Afterword) 426 avg rating — 1111 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by James Alan McPherson

“I think that love must be the ability to suspend one's intelligence for the sake of something. At the basis of love therefore must live imagination.”
― James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room

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Pulitzer Prize Wi...: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson	1	26	4 de Ene 08:39
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