IOWA CITY — An Iowa City park has been renamed after James Alan McPherson, the first Black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and a longtime faculty member at the Writers’ Workshop.The Iowa City Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to rename Creekside Park to James Alan McPherson Park.
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Wed, 03/17/2021 - 10:38am
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