James Alan McPherson

21 books

A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile by James Alan McPherson

A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile

James Alan McPherson

nonfiction essays memoir challenging reflective medium-paced

315 pages | first published 2000

Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction by Octavia E. Butler, Grace Edwards-Yearwood, Colleen McElroy, John Edgar Wideman, Ishmael Reed, Wesley Brown, Charles R. Johnson, Randall Kenan, Clarence Major, Darryl Pinckney, Mary Monroe, Xam Wilson Cartier, Paule Marshall, Don Belton, David Bradley, William Demby, Fatima Shaik, Gayl Jones, Steven Corbin, J. California Cooper, Angela Jackson, Carolyn Cole, Ernest J. Gaines, Kristin Hunter Lattany, Toni Cade Bambara, Trey Ellis, Nathaniel Mackey, Wanda Coleman, Doris Jean Austin, Arthur Flowers, Melvin Dixon, Amiri Baraka, Richard Perry, Peter Harris, Samuel R. Delany, Connie Rose Porter, Tina McElroy Ansa, Percival L. Everett, Sandra Hollin Flowers, Becky Birtha, Bill Williams Forde, Marita Golden, Ntozake Shange, John McCluskey, Barbara Neely, Rita Dove, James Alan McPherson, William Melvin Kelley, Gloria Naylor, Terry McMillan, Safiya Henderson-Holmes

Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction

Octavia E. Butler, Grace Edwards-Yearwood, Colleen McElroy, John Edgar Wideman, Ishmael Reed, Wesley Brown, Charles R. Johnson, Randall Kenan, Clarence Major, Darryl Pinckney, Mary Monroe, Xam Wilson Cartier, Paule Marshall, Don Belton, David Bradley, William Demby, Fatima Shaik, Gayl Jones, Steven Corbin, J. California Cooper, Angela Jackson, Carolyn Cole, Ernest J. Gaines, Kristin Hunter Lattany, Toni Cade Bambara, Trey Ellis, Nathaniel Mackey, Wanda Coleman, Doris Jean Austin, Arthur Flowers, Melvin Dixon, Amiri Baraka, Richard Perry, Peter Harris, Samuel R. Delany, Connie Rose Porter, Tina McElroy Ansa, Percival L. Everett, Sandra Hollin Flowers, Becky Birtha, Bill Williams Forde, Marita Golden, Ntozake Shange, John McCluskey, Barbara Neely, Rita Dove, James Alan McPherson, William Melvin Kelley, Gloria Naylor, Terry McMillan, Safiya Henderson-Holmes

fiction short stories emotional reflective medium-paced

720 pages | first published 1990

Crabcakes by James Alan McPherson

Crabcakes

James Alan McPherson

nonfiction memoir challenging reflective slow-paced

281 pages | first published 1998

Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson

Elbow Room

James Alan McPherson

fiction short stories emotional reflective slow-paced

288 pages | first published 1977

Hue and Cry by James Alan McPherson

Hue and Cry

James Alan McPherson

fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced

304 pages | first published 1968

Pow Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience by Susanne Lee, Ray Smith, Langston Hughes, Kristin Hunter, Danny Romero, Ishmael Reed, Walter K. Lew, Zora Neale Hurston, E. Donald Two-Rivers, Yuri Kageyama, Vivian Demuth, Lucha Corpi, Robert Hass, Hillel Heinstein, Bharati Mukherjee, Sholeh Wolpé, Paule Marshall, Mitch Berman, Victor Sejour, Floyd Salas, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Russell C. Leong, Wajahat Ali, Aphrodite Desiree Navab, Gerald Vizenor, Cecil Brown, Mark Twain, Leon Surmelian, Russell Banks, Robert Coover, Wanda Coleman, Nancy Mercado, Edgardo Vega Yunqué, Fielding Dawson, Conyus (Calhoun), John O. Killens, James T. Farrell, Minjon LeNoir-Irwin, Ty Pak, Al Young, Frank Yerby, Roberta Hill, Anna Nelson Harry, John A. Williams, Grace Paley, George S. Schuyler, Gertrude Stein, Carla Blank, Alejandro Murguía, Mary Tallmountain, Wakako Yamauchi, Ellen Geist, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Charles Wright, Ntozake Shange, James Alan McPherson, Stanley Elkin, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Benjamin Franklin, Chester Himes, Nash Candelaria, Corie Rosen

Pow Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience

Susanne Lee, Ray Smith, Langston Hughes, Kristin Hunter, Danny Romero, Ishmael Reed, Walter K. Lew, Zora Neale Hurston, E. Donald Two-Rivers, Yuri Kageyama, Vivian Demuth, Lucha Corpi, Robert Hass, Hillel Heinstein, Bharati Mukherjee, Sholeh Wolpé, Paule Marshall, Mitch Berman, Victor Sejour, Floyd Salas, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Russell C. Leong, Wajahat Ali, Aphrodite Desiree Navab, Gerald Vizenor, Cecil Brown, Mark Twain, Leon Surmelian, Russell Banks, Robert Coover, Wanda Coleman, Nancy Mercado, Edgardo Vega Yunqué, Fielding Dawson, Conyus (Calhoun), John O. Killens, James T. Farrell, Minjon LeNoir-Irwin, Ty Pak, Al Young, Frank Yerby, Roberta Hill, Anna Nelson Harry, John A. Williams, Grace Paley, George S. Schuyler, Gertrude Stein, Carla Blank, Alejandro Murguía, Mary Tallmountain, Wakako Yamauchi, Ellen Geist, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Charles Wright, Ntozake Shange, James Alan McPherson, Stanley Elkin, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Benjamin Franklin, Chester Himes, Nash Candelaria, Corie Rosen

fiction short stories challenging reflective medium-paced

536 pages | first published 2008

Race and the American Idea: 155 Years of Writings From The Atlantic by Jeffery Goldberg, Randall Kennedy, Woodrow Wilson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Frederick Douglass, Quincy Ewing, Claude M. Steele, Elijah Anderson, Robert Coles, Booker T. Washington, J. Saunders Redding, Oscar Handlin, Nicholas Lemann, Martin Luther King Jr., Hua Hsu, Robert S. Boynton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Betty E. Chmaj, W.E.B. Du Bois, Juan Williams, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Anthony Lewis, Mary D. Edsall, Ralph Ellison, Benjamin E. Mays, Ralph McGill, Thomas Edsall, Jonathan Kozol, Jack Beatty, James Alan McPherson, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Race and the American Idea: 155 Years of Writings From The Atlantic

Jeffery Goldberg, Randall Kennedy, Woodrow Wilson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Frederick Douglass, Quincy Ewing, Claude M. Steele, Elijah Anderson, Robert Coles, Booker T. Washington, J. Saunders Redding, Oscar Handlin, Nicholas Lemann, Martin Luther King Jr., Hua Hsu, Robert S. Boynton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Betty E. Chmaj, W.E.B. Du Bois, Juan Williams, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Anthony Lewis, Mary D. Edsall, Ralph Ellison, Benjamin E. Mays, Ralph McGill, Thomas Edsall, Jonathan Kozol, Jack Beatty, James Alan McPherson, Ta-Nehisi Coates

nonfiction history race sociology challenging reflective medium-paced

768 pages | first published 2015

The Best American Short Stories of the Century by Sherwood Anderson, Mary Lerner, John Cheever, Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Godin, Robert Penn Warren, Katrina Kenison, Paul Horgan, Vladimir Nabokov, Richard Wright, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorother Parker, Ann Beattie, Jean Stafford, Joyce Carol Oates, Willa Cather, Grace Stone Coates, Philip Roth, E.B. White, Tim O'Brien, Susan Glaspell, Alice Adams, Gish Jen, Benjamin Rosenblatt, John Updike, Harold Brodkey, J.F. Powers, William Saroyan, Donald Barthelme, Saul Bellow, Mary Ladd Gavell, Eudora Welty, Martha Gellhorn, Raymond Carver, Lawrence Sargent Hall, Susan Sontag, Bernard Malamud, Rosellen Brown, Tennessee Williams, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Toomer, Flannery O'Connor, Cynthia Ozick, James Alan McPherson, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stanley Elkin, Elizabeth Bishop

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

The Best American Short Stories

Sherwood Anderson, Mary Lerner, John Cheever, Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Godin, Robert Penn Warren, Katrina Kenison, Paul Horgan, Vladimir Nabokov, Richard Wright, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorother Parker, Ann Beattie, Jean Stafford, Joyce Carol Oates, Willa Cather, Grace Stone Coates, Philip Roth, E.B. White, Tim O'Brien, Susan Glaspell, Alice Adams, Gish Jen, Benjamin Rosenblatt, John Updike, Harold Brodkey, J.F. Powers, William Saroyan, Donald Barthelme, Saul Bellow, Mary Ladd Gavell, Eudora Welty, Martha Gellhorn, Raymond Carver, Lawrence Sargent Hall, Susan Sontag, Bernard Malamud, Rosellen Brown, Tennessee Williams, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Toomer, Flannery O'Connor, Cynthia Ozick, James Alan McPherson, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stanley Elkin, Elizabeth Bishop

fiction short stories emotional reflective sad slow-paced

835 pages | first published 2000

The Granta Book of the American Short Story by Leonard Michaels, Jayne Anne Phillips, John Cheever, James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, Peter Taylor, Joy Williams, Paul Bowles, Amy Tan, Jane Bowles, Ann Beattie, Mary Robison, Jean Stafford, Stuart Dybek, Joyce Carol Oates, Gayl Jones, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Barry Hannah, Tim O'Brien, David Leavitt, Richard Ford, Robert Coover, Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Harold Brodkey, Donald Barthelme, Eudora Welty, Raymond Carver, James Salter, Grace Paley, Richard Yeats, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tobias Wolff, William H. Gass, Wallace Stegner, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, Max Apple, Richard Bausch, Shirley Jackson, Jamaica Kincaid, William Kotzwinkle, James Alan McPherson, Stanley Elkin

The Granta Book of the American Short Story

The Granta Book of the American Short Story #1

Leonard Michaels, Jayne Anne Phillips, John Cheever, James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, Peter Taylor, Joy Williams, Paul Bowles, Amy Tan, Jane Bowles, Ann Beattie, Mary Robison, Jean Stafford, Stuart Dybek, Joyce Carol Oates, Gayl Jones, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Barry Hannah, Tim O'Brien, David Leavitt, Richard Ford, Robert Coover, Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Harold Brodkey, Donald Barthelme, Eudora Welty, Raymond Carver, James Salter, Grace Paley, Richard Yeats, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tobias Wolff, William H. Gass, Wallace Stegner, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, Max Apple, Richard Bausch, Shirley Jackson, Jamaica Kincaid, William Kotzwinkle, James Alan McPherson, Stanley Elkin

fiction short stories emotional reflective slow-paced

712 pages | first published 1993

The Stories of Breece d'j Pancake by Breece D'j Pancake

The Stories of Breece d'j Pancake

Breece D'j Pancake with Andre Dubus III (Contributor)

fiction short stories reflective slow-paced

192 pages