Major works:
A Sense of Where You Are • Annals of the Former World • The Pine Barrens
John McPhee is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of creative nonfiction. Born in Princeton, New Jersey, he has lived there for most of his life, attending Princeton University and going on to become its Ferris Professor of Journalism in 1974. McPhee began his writing career at Time magazine in 1957. He joined The New Yorker in 1963 and has since become one of their most prolific contributors, publishing more than one hundred pieces. In 1965 McPhee published A Sense of Where You Are, his first of thirty-three books. He received a Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World (1998), and has earned numerous additional honors, including the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Wallace Stegner Award, and lifetime achievement awards from the National Book Critic’s Circle and the George Polk Awards in Journalism.
“McPhee’s work . . . sits at some thrilling intersection of short story, essay, documentary, field research and epic poem.” – The New York Times
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