McPhee, John (Angus)

McPhee, John (Angus)
born March 8, 1931, Princeton, N.J., U.S.

U.S. journalist and nonfiction writer.

He attended Princeton University. After working as an associate editor at Time (1957–64), he became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1965. His nonfiction covers a wide variety of topics. His first book was on Bill Bradley; places he has written about include New Jersey, Alaska, the American West (several books), and Switzerland; other topics include the citrus industry, aeronautical engineering, the birch-bark canoe, and nuclear terrorism. He has taught journalism at Princeton since 1975. His later works include Annals of the Former World (1998, Pulitzer Prize).

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