James Alan McPherson (1943–2016)
Autor(a) de Elbow Room
About the Author
James Alan McPherson Jr. was born in Savannah, Georgia on September 16, 1943. He received a bachelor's degree from Morris Brown College in 1965, a law degree from Harvard Law School, and a master of fine arts degree from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. While still in law school, he mostrar mais won a contest sponsored by The Atlantic Monthly magazine for a semi-autobiographical short story called Gold Coast. His first short story collection, Hue and Cry, was published in 1969. His next anthology, Elbow Room, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1978. He also wrote memoirs including Going Up to Atlanta and Crabcakes. In 1981, he was among the first 21 people who received what became known as genius awards from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He taught at the University of Virginia and the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He died from complications of pneumonia on July 27, 2016 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de James Alan McPherson
Of Cabbages and Kings 1 exemplar(es)
Elbow Room (Scribner Signature Edition) by James Alan McPherson (25-Jul-1987) Paperback (1600) 1 exemplar(es)
Gold Coast (short story) 1 exemplar(es)
Railroad: Trains and Train People in American Culture 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Contribuinte — 274 cópias
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Contribuinte — 188 cópias
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Contribuinte — 114 cópias
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Contribuinte — 99 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1943-09-16
- Data de falecimento
- 2016-07-27
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Savannah, Georgia, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- Causa da morte
- pneumonia (complications)
- Locais de residência
- Savannah, Georgia, USA (birth)
- Educação
- Morris Brown College (1965)
Morgan State College
Harvard Law School (1968)
University of Iowa (MFA) - Ocupação
- short-story writer
editor
critic - Relacionamentos
- Ellison, Ralph (mentor)
- Organizações
- University of Iowa
Iowa Writers' Workshop - Premiações
- Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
Lannan Literary Fellowship (2002)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1970)
Pulitzer Prize (Letters ∙ 1978)
MacArthur Fellowship (1981)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 17
- Also by
- 20
- Membros
- 606
- Popularidade
- #41,484
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 24
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 1
The short histories cover such things as the evolution of the idea of steam powered transport starting with the 1641 efforts of the Frenchman Solomon de Caus, the underground railroad in the United States, the wild financial exploits of Drew, Vanderbilt, Fisk, and Gould, and the labor strife of blacks and whites in the U.S. in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
The biographies provide a glimpse into the lives of Casey Jones, Kate Shelly, and Thomas Edison among others. The first-person accounts cover some of the “roads less taken”. There’s a sketch of life in a hobo camp (Charles Chrysler), a reflection on a life with a father who was a boiler maker (Otto Salassi), what it was like working in the dining cars ( Joe Monroe) and others.
The fiction runs the gamut from the grim to the almost unintelligible and this reviewer did not find any of it particularly interesting. The same is true for a lot of the cited poetry.
Overall I don’t begrudge the time spent reading but it is not a book I am likely to revisit.
(Text Length – 185 pages. Includes numerous pictures, illustrations, maps, etc.) (Book Dimensions inches LxWxH – 8.5 x .625 x 10.875).… (mais)