JAMES ALAN McPHERSON was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A MacArthur Fellow and American Academy of Arts and Sciences inductee, McPherson was born in Savannah, Georgia. He was a graduate of Harvard Law School and held an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he later taught for thirty-five years. In a writing career that spanned forty years, McPherson was a contributor to publications, including The Atlantic, Esquire, and Playboy, and was an editor of Ploughshares and DoubleTake magazine. McPherson’s works include the short story collection Elbow Room and two works of nonfiction, A Region Not Home and Crabcakes. He died in Iowa City in 2016.

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