A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile

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Simon & Schuster, 2000 - Literary Collections - 315 pages
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Elbow Room--an esteemed short story writer and essayist--offers a powerful and graceful collection of his ruminations.

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Contents

On Becoming an American Writer
15
Foreword to the Collected Stories of Breece
29
Grant Hall
49
Copyright

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About the author (2000)

James Alan McPherson Jr. was born in Savannah, Georgia on September 16, 1943. He received a bachelor's degree from Morris Brown College in 1965, a law degree from Harvard Law School, and a master of fine arts degree from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. While still in law school, he won a contest sponsored by The Atlantic Monthly magazine for a semi-autobiographical short story called Gold Coast. His first short story collection, Hue and Cry, was published in 1969. His next anthology, Elbow Room, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1978. He also wrote memoirs including Going Up to Atlanta and Crabcakes. In 1981, he was among the first 21 people who received what became known as genius awards from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He taught at the University of Virginia and the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He died from complications of pneumonia on July 27, 2016 at the age of 72.

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TitleA Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile
AuthorJames Alan McPherson
Editionillustrated
PublisherSimon & Schuster, 2000
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 11, 2008
ISBN0684834642, 9780684834641
Length315 pages
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Literary Criticism / General
  
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