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William McPherson in 1977.
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William McPherson
Died on March 28, 2017 at age 84
Mr. McPherson was a Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic for The Washington Post whose midlife novel “Testing the Current” won critical acclaim and whose late-life essay describing his descent into poverty riveted readers.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.