He has been an instructor of fiction writing at a range of universities, including Princeton. Hue and Cry is the remarkably mature and agile debut story collection from James Alan McPherson, one of America's most venerated, most original writers. His second collection, All Aunt Hagar’s Children, was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award. James Alan McPherson, the author of two of the greatest short story collections of the postwar era, Hue and Cry (1969) and Elbow Room (1977) ends tewnty years of book silence with a moving, illuminating memoir of his journey from personal isolation to acceptance and understanding of community. His first collection of stories, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was short listed for the National Book Award. Jones, the New York Times bestselling author, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for The Known World he also received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004. The classic debut collection from Pulitzer Prize winner James Alan McPhersonHue and Cry is the remarkably mature and agile debut story collection from James Alan McPherson, one of America’s most venerated and most original writers. He is a professor of English at the University of Iowa. In a writing career that spans forty years, McPherson has been a contributor to many publications, including The Atlantic, Esquire, and Playboy, and was the editor of Double Take magazine.
Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa. Read reviews and buy Hue and Cry - (Art of the Story) by James Alan McPherson (Paperback) at Target. This concise study guide includes plot summary. Pulitzer Prize winner and Guggenheim Fellow James Alan McPherson was born in Savannah, Georgia. for James Alan McPhersons Elbow Room, excerpted from Gales acclaimed Short Stories for Students. Hue and Cry is the remarkably mature and agile debut story collection from James Alan McPherson, one of Americas most venerated and most original writers.