Ploughshares Fall 1985: Special Fiction Issue

by James Alan McPherson, DeWitt Henry

Overview

The Fall 1985 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by James Alan McPherson and DeWitt Henry. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Table of Contents

FICTION
"Rose," by Andre Dubus
"The Island Of Ven," by Gina Berriault
"Getting to Know Frederick," by Stephen Minot
"Bad Company," by Tess Gallagher
"The Way Of All Flesh," by Jonathan Penner
"The Palace," by Maura Stanton
"How Esco Mize Got Religion," by James McCulla
"Last Night On The Town," by W. Cotter Murray
"Tak-Nam," by Benjamin Huang
"Historical Necessity," by Pamela Painter
"To Lubomierz," by Alan Lebowitz
"The Darkness of Love," by Robert Boswell

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148399438
Publisher:	Ploughshares / Emerson College
Publication date:	09/01/1985
Series:	Ploughshares , #113
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	253
File size:	431 KB

About the Author

James Alan McPherson was born in 1943, in Savannah, Georgia. His first story publication came in 1968, when he placed "Gold Coast" in The Atlantic Monthly. The following year, he became a contributing editor for that magazine, and published his first collection, Hue and Cry. He went on to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972, and became the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize, for his second collection, Elbow Room. Having taught in a number of schools, including the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Virginia, McPherson settled in 1979 at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he mentored a generation of writers and where he still serves as professor. In 1981, he was awarded one of the first MacArthur Foundation "genius" grants. Over the following years, McPherson has served as a Ploughshares trustee, a panelist for the Whiting Foundation, and a contributing editor for Doubletake. More recently, McPherson was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. He published Crabcakes, a memoir, in 1996, followed in 2000 by A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile, a collection of essays, and was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2002.

Born in Wayne, Pennsylvania, DeWitt Henry graduated from Amherst College in 1963 and completed his M.A. and PhD from Harvard University by 1971. In the same year, Henry co-founded the literary magazine Ploughshares, and would serve as director and editor until 1995. His books include a memoir, Sweet Dreams: A Family History (Hidden River Press, 2011); a novel, The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts (University of Tennessee Press, 2001); and a collection of essays titled Safe Suicide
(Red Hen Press, 2008). He has also edited five anthologies to date, including Sorrow's Company: Writers on Loss and Grief (Beacon Press, 2001) and Fathering Daughters: Reflections by Men (Beacon Press, 1999). He is currently a professor in Emerson College's Writing, Literature, and Publishing program.