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John McPhee
A literary legend's engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why.
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"A collection of essays and essay fragments John McPhee wrote over the course of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why"--
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Michael Pearson
Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.
Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…
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The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author’s first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where…
This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a Ship, The Control of Nature…
This wide-ranging essay collection serves as a covert memoir of a cult literary figure-New Yorker writer John McPhee.
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McPhee offers … guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny –Amazon.com.
Earlier versions of most of these essays first appeared in The New Yorker, Time, and Vogue –Title page verso.
The brief, brilliant essay Silk Parachute has become McPhee’s most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here, McPhee writes, with his characteristic humor and intensity, about lacrosse…
Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover…
Pieces of the Frame is a gathering of memorable writings by one of the greatest journalists and storytellers of our time. They take the reader from the backwoods roads of…
You people come into the market–the Greenmarket, in the open air under the down pouring sun–and you slit the tomatoes with your fingernails. With your thumbs, you excavate the cheese…
In a suspenseful, chilling, and fascinating report like no other, bestselling author John McPhee investigates the plight of dissident Soviet artists and the American professor, Norton Dodge, who smuggled their…
Lauded as a fishing classic ( The Economist ) upon its publication in hardcover, McPhee’s 26th book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending…
McPhee, in prose distinguished by its warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character, looks at the people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains…
This is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master. [McPhee] again shamelessly employs his go-to strategy: crafting sentences so energetic and structurally sound that he can introduce apparently…
The astonishing range of John McPhee gains further dimension from the five extraordinary parts of his most unique novel.
This collection of acclaimed essays on a variety of topics by our dean of literary journalists ( The Baltimore Sun ) reveals McPhee at the top of his form, showcasing…
Bestselling author McPhee takes us on another exciting geological excursion with this engaging account of life–past and present–in the high plains of Wyoming.
Written by four-times finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, Levels of the Game is the best tennis book ever written, dealing with human behaviour, race, politics and the divisions…
‘McPhee is a grand master of narrative non-fiction.’ - Guardian
The first book from the legendary New Yorker writer John McPhee, tells about Bill Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen.
When John McPhee met…
The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher.
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‘McPhee’s genius is that he can write about anything.’ - Robert Macfarlane
A portrait of an unexpected wilderness and its unknown people.
In the quiet still hours of the evening on May 10, 1980, a young nation faced its most crucial hour. Two Cuban MiGs were dispatched by Cuba’s competent authority. Their…
In admirable disregard for the orthodoxy of public relations, the Swiss Army has chosen Luc Massy to be the soldier companion of the American observer John McPhee during various exercices…
Heirs of General Practice is a frieze of glimpses of young doctors with patients of every age–about a dozen physicians in all, who belong to the new medical specialty called…
Table of Contents is a collection of eight pieces that range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones in a small village near the Arctic…
Originally appeared in The New Yorker –Title page verso.
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis…
Tripling as a geology primer, an autobiography, and a panorama of the nation, bejeweled with splendid vignettes and set-pieces, Annals of the Former World offers a view of America like…
John A. McPhee
A portfolio of the sketches and models of Edwin Tappan Adney (1868-1950) : p. [115-145].
From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana’s drifted diamonds and gold, John McPhee’s In Suspect Terrain is a compelling narrative of the earth’s history.
The first of John McPhee’s works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in…
The text of this book originally appeared in the New Yorker –T.p. verso.
To many Americans in the Lower 48, Alaska seems almost a foreign country, and John McPhee’s evocations of its people and its landscapes in no way alters that impression. McPhee…
With his customary reportorial brilliance, John McPhee has written the story of the life and career of Theodore B. Taylor, a theoretical physicist who has been one of the most…
Digressions in Deep Time is the first collection of essays which considers the multifarious representations of deep time across literature and the arts, assembling the work of a wide range…
Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing, and…
In 1957 - long before colleges awarded degrees in creative nonfiction - Princeton began honoring talented literary journalists. Since then, fifty-nine of the finest, most dedicated, and most decorated nonfiction…
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses--on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The…
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a magazine article, but John McPhee kept encountering so much irresistible information that he wrote a book.
It is perhaps the…
Dealing with subjects ranging from a Swedish hotel made of ice to the enigma of UFOs, from a tragedy on Lake Minnetonka to the gold mine of cyberpornography, this book…
