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	Meet James McPherson
		That being true, then historian James M. McPherson's achievements are manifold.
		Born in North Dakota and raised in Minnesota, McPherson's first fascination with the Civil War began as a graduate student in 1958 under the mentorship of C. Vann Woodward at Johns Hopkins University.
		While McPherson was in Baltimore, events similar to the abolition movement he was studying were taking place all around the country.
	www.neh.gov /whoweare/mcpherson/meet.html (877 words)

	CRABCAKES. By James Alan McPherson
		JAMES Alan McPherson, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for his short-story collection Elbow Room, is a master of elegant prose and the kind of writer who probes deeply into the secrets of identity.
		The old woman's letters, with rent checks enclosed, are like those from a close friend, but McPherson knows little about her, and he also knows that "for almost 18 years the facts of my own life have been kept from her." We know, of course, that he is admitting to having avoided these facts himself.
		McPherson's introspection is balanced by wonderfully attentive portraits of others, and his perceptive analysis of what we do in our most ordinary moments is intense, absorbing and frequently unsettling.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/books/9798/03/29/crabcakes.html (699 words)

	James Alan McPherson at Kelly Writer's House - P.A.W. Print - Philadelphia Arts Writers
		A gifted storyteller, James Allan McPherson then culled examples from his recent experiences to describe the writer's role in contemporary society and what it means to be a natural human being.
		For McPherson, the short story is the perfect vehicle with which to celebrate the ordinary person.
		James Alan McPherson is also the author of novels Hue and Cry, Raiload, and Crabcakes.
	home.comcast.net /~philadelphiawriters/articles/06_2004/mcpherson.htm (407 words)

	Kelly Writers House Fellows - James Alan McPherson
		James Alan McPherson reading - A digital recording of the April 19, 2004 event where McPherson read from his work.
		James Alan McPherson interview/conversation - A recording of the April 20, 2004 audiocast of the interview and conversation with James Alan McPherson, moderated by
		James Alan McPherson is among the most revered authors living and writing in the United States.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~whfellow/mcpherson.html (154 words)

	Exile and the Writer
		James Alan McPherson ’68 doesn’t practice law, but his career began to take shape when he was a student at HLS in Professor Paul Freund’s constitutional law class.
		McPherson said he and his classmates (among them Reginald Lewis, who was his roommate) were part of a transitional generation.
		McPherson says he is now at work on an essay that tells another side of the story.
	www.law.harvard.edu /alumni/bulletin/2000/fall/classnotes_mcpherson.html (661 words)

	TomFolio.com: by James Alan McPherson
		McPherson, James Alan and Miller Williams Railroad: Trains and Train People in American Culture Publisher: Random House New York 1976.
		James Alan McPherson, Illustrated by: Ben Wohlberg Elbow Room Publisher: Franklin Library Franklin Center, Pennsylvania 1980.
		McPherson, James Alan Crabcakes Publisher: Simon & Schuster NY 1998.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=James_Alan_McPherson (602 words)

	Tetley Tea Books - A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		James Alan McPherson, an African-American, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a professor at the Iowa Writers Workshop, has come a long way from his early life as a poor boy in racially segregated Savannah, Georgia.
		In “Gravitas,” an essay that is the finest piece of writing in this collection of “reflections,” McPherson pays tribute to Ellison, the renowned author of Invisible Man and Juneteenth, for his affirmation of his identity as a fl man and for his recognition of the humanity of all men and women.
		McPherson is convinced that the fl middle class has lost the “moral certainty” that earlier generations of fls in this country had, an “ethical imperative” that had been passed along as a kind of a legacy.
	www.tetleyusa.com /books_aregion.asp (426 words)

	James Alan McPherson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His work has appeared in twenty-seven journals and magazines, seven short-story anthologies, and The Best American Essays.
		In 1995, McPherson was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
		He has been educated at Morris Brown College, Harvard Law School, The University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, and the Yale Law School.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/James_Alan_McPherson (194 words)

	IDS: Author compares Pryor's humor to Greek drama (Arts, 10/16/2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		McPherson, a University of Iowa English professor who wrote Hue and Cry, Crabcakes and other collections of fiction, said Pryor did something few comics have done before him or since.
		McPherson said the comedian helped people use laughter as a way to cope with their problems.
		McPherson's talk was sponsored by the Black Film Center/Archive and the Afro-American Studies department as part of a series featuring screenings of several Pryor movies.
	www.idsnews.com /print.php?id=6372 (445 words)

	Fiction: James Alan McPherson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		McPherson received first prize in the Atlantic Monthly short story contest in 1965, and in 1969, his first collection of short stories, Hue and Cry, was published.
		McPherson has been widely praised for his incisive depictions of African Americans attempting to cope with the indignities and desperations of everyday life.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/mcpherson.htm (178 words)

	This Day in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		James Alan McPherson, the only fl man to date to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is born in Savannah, Georgia.
		McPherson became a writing teacher, working at Morgan State University in Washington, D.C., and later at University of Virginia.
		McPherson was the first fl man to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
	www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=literary&month=10272961&day=10272981 (239 words)

	Alibris: James Alan McPherson
		McPherson's memoir tells the story of his recovery from a series of devastating personal problems, and his reemergence as a writer.
		Hue and Cry is the remarkably mature and agile debut story collection from James Alan McPherson, one of America's most venerated, most original writers.
		McPherson's characters -- gritty, jazzy, authentic, and pristinely rendered -- give voice to unheard struggles along the dividing lines of race and poverty in subtle, fluid prose that bears no...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/James_Alan_McPherson (301 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Breece Is Back
		The new edition is essentially the same as that of the original -- retaining all 12 stories, James Alan McPherson's foreword, and John Casey's afterword -- but with the addition of a second afterword by Andre Dubus III.
		It was there that McPherson and Casey befriended, taught, and, as each admits, later came to be taught by Pancake.
		Their beautifully written essays are invaluable for an understanding of who he was as a writer and as a complicated -- at times mysteriously impenetrable -- person.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-07-26/books_feature2.html (377 words)

	Books: Tracking the Races (Memphis Flyer . 02-02-98)
		Crabcakes is McPherson’s return to book-length form and a memoir (contrary to its jacket’s summary) with little or nothing to do with any or all the above.
		What it does have to do with – and evenly divides into – are two background events brought to front-rank importance by an author who seems to have also spent the past 20 years in focused retreat and close to or in fact suffering periodic breakdowns.
		The first of these events was McPherson’s purchase of a house in Baltimore in 1976, which he rented, against mounting losses, to a kind and aged fl woman, Channie Washington, and a certain Mr.
	weeklywire.com /ww/02-02-98/memphis_book.html (846 words)

	Powell's Books - Crabcakes: A Memoir by James Alan McPherson
		The reemergence of James Allen McPherson, one of contemporary literature's bright stars, after a series of devastating personal setbacks that kept him from writing, is one of the major literary events of the season.
		Movingly depicting McPherson's quest to find redemption in the rarefied literary world through the study of other writers and the teaching of writing, Crabcakes is a rare look inside the mind of a great writer.
		With the same grace and lyrical precision that distinguish his vibrant short stories, James McPherson surveys the emotional upheaval of his last twenty-one years.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0684847965-5 (368 words)

	MELUS: Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson. - Review - book reviews
		What makes Beaver's book especially valuable is that he does not belabor the idea of literary revisionism, tracing each moment in Gaines's or McPherson's texts to a predecessor and assessing it solely as part of the competitive play of a literary system.
		What should have happened after the sixties, McPherson has recently written, or at least what was needed, was "a creative synthesis" that would "lift the whole issue of fl American and therefore American identity to a higher level of meaning" based on commonly-shared values.
		That such a "revolutionary model of American identity" did not emerge, or, for the optimist, might be in the glacially slow process of emergence, provides American writers, particularly those of African descent, with a subject for literary exploration that is surprisingly, perhaps dismayingly, similar to the subject Ellison inherited in postwar America.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_1_23/ai_53501913 (503 words)

	Elbow Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		James McPherson explores that world and brings it to us in an almost lyrical way from a most colorful experience in the fourth-grade to a pastor who loses his flock because he cannot adjust to modern times to a young couple that must deal with their respective parents in a mixed marriage.
		In particular, Enough for the City, a rumination on life and love, is enchanting and complex, and it is quite unbelievable that McPherson was able to achieve those qualities in so few pages.
		Perhaps the most manipulative of McPherson's stories, it is nonetheless clever and contemplative.
	www.domesticmuscle.com /books/isbn0449213579.html (295 words)

	CRABCAKES: A MEMOIR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I read Crabcakes almost right when it came out, because Jim McPherson is a writer I greatly admire, and because he was my teacher and friend at U of Iowa while I was there.
		McPherson's often convoluted sense of pacing, and his involved sense of meaning (that spans cultures, continents, and languages) was a pretty big project to get through, but once I was finished I couldn't stop thinking about it for a long time.
		This is the best of art, the kind of creative endeavor that puts me in awe--when someone has an intensely personal vision and manages to communicate it with such accuracy that, for a time at least, the world looks different.
	digital-cameras.buy24.us /books/isbn0684847965.html (1028 words)

	James Alan McPherson Biography and List of Works - James Alan McPherson Books
		James Alan McPherson Biography and List of Works - James Alan McPherson Books
		In 1995, McPherson was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
		He has been educated at Morris Brown College, Harvard Law School, The University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, and the Yale Law School.
	www.biblio.com /authors/105/James_Alan_McPherson_Biography.html (183 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - McPherson James Alan
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - McPherson James Alan
		McPherson, James Alan, born in 1943, American writer, whose fiction and journalism offer a powerful critique of prejudice in America.
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	ca.encarta.msn.com /McPherson_James_Alan.html (84 words)

	Powell's Books - Elbow Room: Stories by James Alan McPherson
		Whether a story dashes the bravado of young street toughs or pierces through the self-deception of a failed preacher, challenges the audacity of a killer or explodes the jealousy of two lovers, James Alan McPherson has created an array of haunting images and memorable characters in an unsurpassed collection of honest, masterful fiction.
		McPherson is one of those rare writers who can tell a story describe shadings of character, and make sociological observations with equal subtlety."
		James Alan McPherson is the author of Hue and Cry, Railroad, and Elbow Room, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0449213579 (284 words)

	Admissions - Writers' Workshop - The University of Iowa
		Lan Samantha Chang who starts as Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the Spring of 2006, is the author of Hunger (a collection of stories) and Inheritance (a novel).
		James Alan McPherson is the author of Hue and Cry, Railroad, Elbow Room, Crabcakes, Fathering Daughters, and A Region not Home.
		Charles D'Ambrosio is a 1991 graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop.
	www.uiowa.edu /~iww/faculty/fiction.htm (581 words)

	Encyclopedia: James Alan McPherson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Elbow Room is a 1977 short story collection by American author James Alan McPherson.
		The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, or literature composed in English by writers who are not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian.
		Other: Elbow Room is a 1977 short story collection by American author James Alan McPherson.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/James-Alan-McPherson (637 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		James Alan McPherson's essays are purposive in the largest sense of the word: These narratives are headed somewhere, specifically, toward an America that he is in the process of imagining, a place of equity and deliberate thoughtfulness.
		Born poor and fl in the American South, McPherson has had a great intellectual adventure leading him a merry, brainy chase all over the States, into all levels of society.
		McPherson's peculiar derring-do is that he attempts, every time, to think with a "national mind." Sometimes he succeeds, but even his failures are gallant, edifying, and spectacular to watch.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0684870207 (715 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99056063
		Written during this time spent teaching, A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile is a deft collection of McPherson's brilliantly composed essays that cover a broad spectrum of his intellectual pursuits.
		McPherson writes of the longing of the human soul by unifying thoughts of his deep affection for his daughter and the meaning of Disneyland transcendental meanings in life and the tedium of long waits in airports coming to self-knowledge and the cruel rituals of fraternity pledge week.
		McPherson's prose uncovers his profound understanding of the ebb and flow of life's sorrows and delights and reveals his search for connections between everyday drudgery and a greater sense of purpose.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/simon032/99056063.html (262 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureJames Alan McPherson - Author Page
		In his non-fiction piece “On Becoming an American Writer” (The Atlantic, December 1978), James Alan McPherson provides rich clues about his identity as a fl American citizen who is a writer.
		Influenced by Ralph Ellison, about and with whom he wrote “Indivisible Man” (The Atlantic, December 1970), McPherson believes “that the United States is complex enough to induce that sort of despair that begets heroic hope.
		McPherson has taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz (1969—1976); the University of Virginia at Charlottesville (1976—1981); and currently he is Professor of English at the University of Iowa where he received an MFA in 1971.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/mcpherson_ja.html (546 words)

	0684847965 - Crabcakes by James Alan McPherson - 9780684847962
		McPherson's memoir tells the story of his recovery from a series of devastating personal problems, and his reemergence as a writer.
		In this memoir, the 'I' who tells the story is far more elusive than the protagonists in his short fiction....When McPherson writes fiction, he insists that his characters reveal whether they've been abandoned by a lover, frozen out by a child.
		With the same grace and lyrical precision that distinguishes his vibrant short stories, McPherson surveys confrontation with the past and his struggle to make sense of it and to bind it, peacefully, to the present.
	www.biblio.com /isbn/0684847965.html (906 words)

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