Crabcakes A Memoir

James Alan McPhersonis the author ofHue and Cry, Railroad,andElbow Room,for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978. His essays and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals -- includingThe New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Newsday, Plough-shares, The Iowa Review,andDouble-Take-- and anthologies such as volumes ofThe Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays,andO. Henry Prize Stories.McPherson has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Prize Fellows Award. He is currently a professor of English at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Iowa City.

James Alan McPherson is the author of Hue and Cry, Railroad, and Elbow Room, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978. His essays and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals -- including The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Newsday, Plough-shares, The Iowa Review, and Double-Take -- and anthologies such as volumes of The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, and O. Henry Prize Stories. McPherson has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Prize Fellows Award. He is currently a professor of English at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Iowa City.