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Pages in category "Books by John McPhee" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American writer. He is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction.He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Nonfiction, and he won that award on the fourth occasion in 1999 for Annals of the Former World (a collection of five books, including two of his previous Pulitzer finalists). [1]
Annals of the Former World is a book on geology written by John McPhee and published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. [1] It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. [2] The book presents a geological history of North America, and was researched and written over
I don’t know about you, but I’d buy a McPhee book featuring the characters he’d meet along the way. Instead, all we can do is wait for “Volume 2.” Show comments
A Sense of Where You Are, by John McPhee, profiles Bill Bradley during Bradley's senior year at Princeton University.Bradley, who would later play in the National Basketball Association and serve in the United States Senate, was widely regarded as one of the best basketball players in the country, and his status as a Rhodes Scholar playing in the Ivy League only added to his allure.
John McPhee, 92, is known for the length and longevity of his writing. Out with a new book, 'Tabula Rasa,' he hopes writing will keep him alive forever
The Control of Nature is a 1989 nonfiction book by John McPhee that chronicles three attempts to control natural processes that had varying success. The book combines three long essays previously published in The New Yorker: "Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los Angeles Against the Mountains".
One of his most widely read books, Coming into the Country is divided into three sections, "At the Northern Tree Line: The Encircled River," "In Urban Alaska: What They Were Hunting For," and "In the Bush: Coming into the Country". Like all of McPhee's books, Coming into the Country started out as an outline that he proceeded to fill in. It is ...