McPhee, John, 1931-

LC control no.	n 79076613
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	McPhee, John, 1931- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	McPhee, John A. (John Angus), 1931-
Other standard no.	0000000118853341 92169855
Birth date	1931-03-08
Place of birth	Princeton (N.J.) University of Cambridge
Affiliation	Princeton University
Profession or occupation	Authors Journalists
Found in	His A sense of where you are, 1965. His The Pine Barrens, 1981: t.p. (John McPhee) His Outcroppings, 1988: CIP t.p. (John McPhee) Con au, 65-68 (McPhee, John (Angus); b. Mar. 8, 1931 in Princeton, N.J.) McPhee, John. Levels of the game, 2014: title page (John McPhee) page 3 of cover (born Princeton; educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University; writing career began at Time magazine; books include: A sense of where you are and The pine barrens) Cambridge University list of members up to 31 July 1998, 1999 (John Angus McPhee; Magdalene College, 1953) Maya Lin, 2015: title page (foreword by John McPhee) jacket (John McPhee has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1965) Wikipedia, 10 August 2017 (John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American writer, widely 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). In 2008 he received the George Polk Career Award for his "indelible mark on American journalism during his nearly half-century career." Since 1974, McPhee has been the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McPhee> New Yorker website, 10 August 2017 (John McPhee began contributing to The New Yorker in 1963. He has written more than a hundred pieces for the magazine, among them a Profile of Senator Bill Bradley during his days as a Princeton basketball star, an examination of modern-day cattle rustling, and several multipart series on a wide range of subjects, including Alaska; a voyage on a merchant ship down the west coast of South America as a Person in Addition to Crew; a stint with the Swiss Army; and the writing process.) <http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/john-mcphee>
Associated language	eng