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About the Author
John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written over 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Books by John McPhee
Tabula Rasa
By John McPhee
The Patch
By John McPhee
Silk Parachute
By John McPhee
Uncommon Carriers
By John McPhee
The Founding Fish
By John McPhee
Irons in the Fire
By John McPhee
The Ransom of Russian Art
By John McPhee
The Second John McPhee Reader
By John McPhee
Giving Good Weight
By John McPhee
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
By John McPhee