William McPherson (writer)
William McPherson | |
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U.S. | |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Education | University of Michigan Michigan State University George Washington University |
| Genre | Journalism, non-fiction, fiction |
William McPherson (March 16, 1933 – March 28, 2017) was an American writer and journalist. He is the author of two novels, Testing the Current and To the Sargasso Sea, and many articles, essays, and book reviews. McPherson was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism in 1977.[1]
Life
William Alexander McPherson was born in
Union Carbide Corporation, and of his wife Ruth Brubaker.[2] He lived in Washington, D.C., and New York City for most of his life and spent several years in Romania. He attended the University of Michigan (1951–1955), Michigan State University (1956–1958) and George Washington University
(1960–1962) without taking a degree. In 1959, he married Elizabeth Mosher, with whom he had a daughter, Jane, in 1963. In 1979, McPherson and Mosher divorced.
Career
In 1958, McPherson began his professional career as a
Radcliffe Publishing Course.[3]
McPherson's first novel, Testing the Current, was published in 1984 to wide acclaim.
Notable Books of the Year".[5] McPherson's second novel, To the Sargasso Sea, explores the adult life of the first novel's child protagonist.[6] New York Review Books Classics republished Testing the Current in January 2013.[7]
McPherson moved to Romania shortly after the execution of communist dictator
Washington Post, and Slate. McPherson also contributed to The New Republic, The Nation, The New Yorker, the International Herald Tribune, and Life
, among other periodicals.
In 2014, McPherson wrote about how he was living in relative poverty,[8] after spending his inheritances and losing money in the stock market.[9]
McPherson died March 28, 2017, at a hospice center in Washington of complications from
congestive heart failure and pneumonia
.
Selected bibliography
- Testing the Current. Simon & Schuster. 1984. ISBN 0-671-25251-8.;
- Testing the Current. New York Review Books Classics. 2012. ISBN 978-0-671-25251-9.
- To the Sargasso Sea. Simon & Schuster. 1987. ISBN 978-0-671-66030-7.
- The Best of Granta Reportage (Bill Buford, editor, 1993)
- The Best of Granta (Ian Jack, editor, 1998)
Work Online
- "Today in Bucharest," an article in The Washington Post, June 1990
- "The Transylvania Tangle," an essay in The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1994
- "A Weeklong Electronic Journal," a series in Slate, May 1997
- "A Balkan Comedy," an essay in The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1997
- "Falling" an essay in The Hedgehog Review, Fall 2014
References
- ^ "Pulitzer Prize for Criticism". www.nndb.com. Retrieved April 11, 2021.
- ^ ISBN 1-57356-111-8.
- ^ "Profile page on Harvard". Retrieved April 11, 2021.
- ^ "End of the Age of Innocence". The New York Times. March 18, 1984.
- ^ "Notable Books of the Year". The New York Times. December 2, 1984.
- ^ "Drama As Art". Chicago Tribune. May 17, 1987.
- ^ New York Review of Books
- The Huffington Post.
- ^ William McPherson, Falling, The Hedgehog Review, vol. 16, no 3 (Fall 2014).
External links
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