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John McPhee

"[McPhee] triumphs by succinct prose, by his uncanny ability to capture the essence of a complex issue, or an arcane trade secret, in a well-turned phrase." -- Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books

"No one else can take topics as diverse and seemingly dry and make of them such diverting, entertaining, and educational literature." -- Library Journal

John McPhee is a master of long-form narrative non-fiction. McPhee was born in Princeton in 1931, and has lived there almost continuously ever since. After college, at Princeton, McPhee took a postgraduate year at Cambridge University, where he read literature and played basketball. In 1964 he became a staff writer for The New Yorker. He has taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University since 1975. His books include:

• Encounters with the Archdruid
• Oranges
• The Founding Fish
• The Pine Barrens
• The Control of Nature
• Assembling California
• Rising from the Plains
• In Suspect Terrain
• Basin and Range
• Coming into the Country
• The Survival of the Bark Canoe

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