Anthony Walton Author & Editor

James Alan McPherson was an essayist and fiction writer, the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in Savannah, Georgia and a graduate of Harvard Law School, McPherson was a contributor to The Atlantic,  Esquire,  Playboy, and many other publications. A professor emeritus at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Mr. McPherson died in 2016. Anthony Walton is a poet and author of Mississippi: An American Journey. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Oxford American, and many other journals. He has also co-authored books with the Reverand Al Sharpton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Mr. Walton currently lives in Maine.