James Alan McPherson (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
James Alan McPherson (muhk-FURS-uhn) is one of the most accomplished American writers of short fiction to have achieved prominence in the years immediately following the Civil Rights era. He was born in Savannah, Georgia, on September 16, 1943, the son of James Allen and Mable (Smalls) McPherson. His father was an electrician; his mother, a domestic in a white household. Although the Savannah of McPherson’s childhood and youth remained segregated, it was a multicultural city that encouraged him, he has said, to develop a conception of human identity that transcended racial...
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