James Alan McPherson, who overcame segregation and the narrow prism of a legal education to become the first black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, died on Wednesday in Iowa City. He was 72.It is remarkable to consider the Pulitzer judges couldn't find a single award-worthy African-American writer between 1917 and 1978.
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