''Elbow Room: Stories'' is a 1977 short story collection by American author
James Alan McPherson
James Alan McPherson (September 16, 1943 – July 27, 2016) was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who re ...
. It won the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1978.
Contents
The twelve short stories of ''Elbow Room'' appear in the following sequence:
*"Why I like Country Music"
*"The Story of a Dead Man"
*"The Silver Bullet"
*"The Faithful"
*"Problems of Art"
*"The Story of a Scar"
*"I am an American"
*"Widows and Orphans"
*"A Loaf of Bread"
*"Just Enough for the City"
*"A Sense of Story"
*"Elbow Room"
References
External links
Photos of the first edition of Elbow Room
1977 short story collections
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning works
Little, Brown and Company books
African-American short story collections
English-language books
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