James Alan McPherson ( born September 16, 1943 ) is an American short story writer and essayist.

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* 1943 – James Alan McPherson, American author

* 1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson

Seibert and Goodman's company, Fred / Alan ( now Frederator Studios ), teamed up with Tom Corey and Scott Nash of the advertising firm Corey McPherson Nash to replace the " pinball " logo with the " orange splat " logo that would be used in hundreds of different variations for the next quarter century.

* Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room

* James Alan McPherson, 1977 Pulitzer for Elbow Room, MFA, 1969 ; current faculty member.

* James Alan McPherson ( born 1943 ), American short story writer and essayist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

* James Alan McPherson, American novelist and short story writer

Head programmer Debby Beece led the team to the name " Nick at Nite ," and Fred / Alan developed the original logo with Tom Corey and Scott Nash of Corey McPherson Nash, Boston, creators of the well-recognized Nickelodeon orange logo.

" Plaintiff witness Dr. Alan Wu also testified that ketones need not be present for dehydration in a special case like McPherson where she was fed proteins and therefore didn't create measurable ketones.

As a graduate student he studied at the University of Virginia's creative writing program under John Casey and James Alan McPherson.

Elbow Room is a 1977 short story collection by American author James Alan McPherson.

When McPherson pushed blindly through Snake Creek Gap in a potentially decisive movement, the only cavalry in his van was the Ninth Illinois Mounted Infantry, totally inadequate for its role.

* McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.

During the 1920s and 1930s, Aimee Semple McPherson was a controversial faith healer of growing popularity during the Great Depression.

One key distinction is the purpose for the practice ; handloaders often seek smaller batches of high-quality ammunition, whereas reloaders are said to make large quantities of ammunition that does not need to be of as high quality but at least one authority ( McPherson ) holds that a better distinction for these connotations is that, regardless of quantity, handloads tend to be of generally high quality while reloads tend to be merely functional.

McPherson is a member of the permanent faculty of the Iowa Writers ' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

McPherson was born in Savannah, Georgia.

McPherson won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his short story collection Elbow Room, becoming the first African-American to win the Pulitzer for fiction.

In 1995 McPherson was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In October 2011 McPherson was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Paul Engle Award from the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature.

The line-up features a completely new body and interiors, front McPherson suspension and rear torsion bar, rack and pinion steering and an updated 5-speed gearshift.

* 1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.

On September 30, 1994, Nichols bought forty bags of ammonium nitrate from Mid-Kansas Coop in McPherson, Kansas, an amount regarded as unusual even for a farmer.

* 1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist ( d. 1944 )

In 2003 Arrit McPherson an advent parasail operator formed PAPO ( the Professional Association of Parasail Operators to promote safety throughout the sport.

* McPherson, James M., and William J. Cooper, Jr., eds.

James McPherson, President of the American Historical Association in 2003, wrote that some would want revisionist history understood as, “ a consciously falsified or distorted interpretation of the past to serve partisan or ideological purposes in the present .” Broadly understood, there are two motivations behind revisionist history: the ability to control ideological influence and to control political influence.

* McPherson, G. ( 1990 ) Statistics in Scientific Investigation: Its Basis, Application and Interpretation, Springer-Verlag.

Aimee Semple McPherson began her radio broadcasts in the early 1920s and even purchased her own station, KFSG which went on the air in February 1924 ; by the mid-1930s, controversial radio priest Father Charles Coughlin's radio broadcasts were reaching millions per week.

In December 1862, with the approval of Halleck, Grant moved to take Vicksburg by an overland route, aided by Charles Hamilton and James McPherson, in combination with a water expedition on the Mississippi led by Maj. Gen. Sherman.

The materials for compromise are at hand: The Nation, Walter Lippmann and other sober commentators ( see Alan Clark on p. 367 ) have spelled them out again and again.

`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.

-- Indonesia Military Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence passed on Alan Lawrence Pope, an American pilot.

Bellows made the disclosure when he asked Judge Parsons to grant his client, Alan Clements, 30, a separate trial.

* Code, Alan.

* Thomas Bopp, shared the discovery of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1995 with unemployed PhD physicist Alan Hale.

Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define " effective calculability " or " effective method "; those formalizations included the Gödel – Herbrand – Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's " Formulation 1 " of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936 – 7 and 1939.

* 1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.

Australia won 4 – 0 in 1958 – 59, having found a high-quality spinner of their own in new skipper Richie Benaud, who took 31 wickets in the five-Test series, and paceman Alan Davidson, who took 24 wickets at 19. 00.

* 1993 – Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver ( b. 1954 )

* Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion by Alan F. Segal, Doubleday, 2004

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

* Bowman, Alan K. The Cambridge Ancient History: The High Empire, A. D. 70 – 192.

Loops and conditional branching were possible, and so the language as conceived would have been Turing-complete as later defined by Alan Turing.

The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

Englishman Alan Parsons met Scotsman Eric Woolfson in the canteen of Abbey Road Studios in the summer of 1974.

Parsons would produce and engineer songs written by the two, and the Alan Parsons Project was born.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

Arista Records then signed The Alan Parsons Project for further albums.

In 2010 Eye to Eye: Alan Parsons Project Live in Madrid was released on CD.