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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]
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.
The Provisional IRA. London: Corgi. ISBN 978-0-552-13337-1. Bourke, Richard (2003). Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas. London: Pimlico. ISBN 1844133168. Carroll, Rory (2023). Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown. London: HarperCollins GB. ISBN 978-0593419496.
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
Encounters with the Archdruid (1971) is a narrative nonfiction book by author John McPhee. Encounters is split into three parts, each covering environmentalist David Brower's confrontations with his ideological enemies. [1] The book chronicles his struggles against miners, developers and finally the United States Bureau of Reclamation. McPhee ...
If you’re John McPhee, you crack open your notebooks and give fans a taste of the stories you never wrote. ... to finding one-sentence and three-page autobiographies written by his late parents ...
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".
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 John McPhee calls his new book an "old ...