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James Alan McPherson dies; Pulitzer Prize-winning author was 72
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James Alan McPherson, an author of widely anthologized short stories and essays that both explored and transcended black experiences in America, and who in 1978 became the first black author to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, died July 27 at a ...
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