James Alan McPherson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

James Alan McPherson

American short story writer and essayist

Date of Birth: 16-Sep-1943

Place of Birth: Savannah, Georgia, United States

Date of Death: 27-Jul-2016

Profession: writer, professor, essayist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

James Alan McPherson (September 16, 1943 – July 27, 2016) 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 professor emeritus of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.