James Alan McPherson (b. 1943) is a United States novelist and short story writer and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973. He won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for his short story collection, Elbow Room. 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. He has taught English at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Harvard, and also lectured in Japan at Meiji University and Chiba University. He is now a professor of English at University of Iowa. 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. ... Elbow Room is a 1977 short story collection by American author James Alan McPherson. ... The Best American series is an annually-published collection of books, published by Houghton Mifflin, each of which features a different theme. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organization dedicated to scholarship and the advancement of learning, particularly in areas of political science. ... Morris Brown College is a historically black college university (HBCU) located in the West-End Community in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Old Cap or Old Capitol Building, Iowas first state capitol building and a university landmark. ... Yale Law School is one of the professional schools of Yale University, based in New Haven, Connecticut. ... The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC or UC Santa Cruz) is a coeducational public university located in Santa Cruz, California, USA. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California. ... Harvard, see Harvard (disambiguation) Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Meiji University (明治大学) is a famous private university in Ochanomizu, Tokyo. ... Chiba University(千葉大学) is a national university in Chiba Japan. ... 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. ...

In 2000, John Updike selected his short story "Gold Coast" for his collection Best American Short Stories of the Century (Houghton Mifflin).

Story collections:

• Elbow Room 1977

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• Hue and Cry 1969
• Crabcakes 1998
• A Region Not Home 2000