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William Alexander McPherson

Born: 03/16/1933 Sault Sainte Marie, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Died: 03/28/2017
Parents: Harold Agnew McPherson, Ruth (Brubaker) McPherson
Spouse: Elizabeth Mosher (divorced, 1979)
Children: Jane Elizabeth
Address(es):
Washington, District of Columbia
Contact Information:
Website: http://williammcpherson.tumblr.com/

Writings

Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
To the Sargasso Sea	Fiction	Adult	New York : Simon and Schuster	1987
The Great American Novel - With Francine du Plessix Gray and Larry McMurtry	Non Fiction	Adult	National Public Radio in Washington D. C.	1987
Testing the Current - A year in the life of 8 yr. old Tommy MacAllister	Fiction	Adult	New York : Simon and Schuster	1984
Other writings: - Poetry, ghost writer, book reviews, articles, poems have appeared in Life, Esquire, New Republic and others

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Awards:

Name	Date
Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism	1977

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name	Date
Michigan Authors, 3rd edition	1993
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities	1988
Contemporary Literary Criticism, volume(s) 34	1986
Contemporary Authors - Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 69-72 Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, volume(s) 28	1978-1990

Education:

Degree	Institution	Location	Date
Attended	George Washington University	Washington,DC	1960-1962
Attended	Michigan State University	East Lansing, MI	1956-1958
Attended	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, MI	1951-1955

Career:

Position	Organization	Location	Date
Writer - lived in and wrote about Romania for Granta, the Wilson Quarterly, the Washington Post, and Slate.		Romania	1989-1996
Editor and other positions	Book World		1972-1985
Faculty	American University	WashingtonDC	1971-1975
Daily Book Editor	Washington Post	Washington D. C.	1969-1972
Senior Editor	William Morrow	New York	1966-1969
Staff writer, editor	Washington Post	Washington D. C.	1959-1966
Copyperson	Washington Post	Washington D. C.	1958

Other Resources:

MeLCat Links:
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