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  • Mcpherson burst onto the national literary scene when his short story "Gold Coast" was published in the Atlantic while he was still in law school. It has been included in The Best American Short Stories of the Century (1999) and can also be found in Mcpherson's first short story collection, Hue and Cry (1968).
  • Mcpherson tells the story of his life, wrapping it around the difficult decision to sell his childhood home and evict the elderly tenants who rented from him in Crabcakes: A Memoir (1999). This collection of essays is every bit as terse and...

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