James Alan McPherson, first African American author to win Pulitzer dies

Q.  James Alan McPherson is known as the first African American author to receive which prize for fiction?
- Published on 01 Aug 16

a. Booker Prize
b. Ramon Magsaysay Award
c. Nobel Prize
d. Pulitzer Prize

ANSWER: Pulitzer Prize
 
James Alan McPherson, author of widely anthologised short stores and essays that explore the experiences of African Americans in America in 1978 was the first black author to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
  • He passed away at the age of 72 at Iowa City on July 27, 2016.
  • He succumbed to complications from pneumonia and wrote works such as “Elbow Room” “Gold Coast” and a volume of short stories “Hue and Cry.”

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