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James Alan McPherson
James Alan McPherson 0000000110837574 1st Black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. James Alan McPherson, born on September 16, 1943, was the first African-American to win the Pulitzer for F...
Hue And Cry: Stories
Hue And Cry: Stories James Alan McPherson 9780060936471 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Hue and Cry is the remarkably mature and agile debut story collection from James Alan McPherson, one of America...
Crabcakes: A Memoir
Crabcakes: A Memoir James Alan McPherson 9780684847962 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press With the same grace and lyrical precision that distinguish his vibrant short stories, James McPherson surveys th...
Elbow Room
Elbow Room James Alan McPherson 9780449213575 Fiction Fawcett Fawcett A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and...
A Region Not Home: Reflections From Exile
A Region Not Home: Reflections From Exile James Alan McPherson 9780684870205 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press In this deft collection of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson offers po...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2016): Embracing Difference
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2016): Embracing Difference Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v8 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2016 “Embracing D...
Richard Wright to Jay-Z: The Decline of Young Black Male Literary Writers
Richard Wright to Jay-Z: The Decline of Young Black Male Literary Writers K.L. Reeves Article Young Writers Need Models Young writers need models. Early in my apprenticeship my predecessors fed me ...
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays Jerald Walker 9780814255995 Nonfiction Mad Creek Books Ohio University Press For the black community, Jerald Walker asserts in How to Make a Slave, “…anger is oft...
Black Writers Dominate the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes
Black Writers Dominate the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes Troy Johnson Article Back in January of this year, I took the time to try to figure out how many Black writers have won Pulitzer Prizes in the six ...
Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now
Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now Ishmael Reed 9781568583426 Fiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Using the yardstick that a short stor...